Gov’t of Peru Bringing Solar Power to Its Poorest People
Less than 66% of Peruvians currently have electricity, leaving more than two million of Peru’s poorest citizens, literally, in the dark and without access to phones and the internet. That’s all to...
View ArticleHugelkultur Offers Benefits to Urban Gardeners
Hugelkultur is wood, buried in soil. That’s the extra-condensed version of the story, anyway- the slightly longer version explains that the techniques behind Hugelkultur allow more plants and crops to...
View ArticleDetroit to Build Massive, 150 Acre Urban Farm
Nine million dollars, per square mile, per year. That’s what it costs the city of Detroit to simply maintain the vacant property they ended up with when the city’s economy dried up and the population...
View ArticleVertical Garden Exhibit at Chicago MSI
Green roof design is becoming popular all over the world, but this vertical garden conceptual model – part of the Fast Forward exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) – takes the...
View ArticleFukushima Factory Becomes Aquaponic Farm
Superconductors and microchips have to be produced in a sterile environment. But what happens when a former microchip factory becomes obsolete? That’s a question facing many of Japan’s chip-makers...
View ArticleVertical Gardening Gets Real in Australia
When news broke two years ago that Sydney, Australia would be home to the world’s tallest and largest urban/vertical gardening project, I had some doubts– and I would have bet money that it was...
View ArticleThere’s an App for That: Foraging for Free Food
Over at Falling Fruit (Fallingfruit.org), two programmers have created a global foraging map that shows that allows you to find fruits, vegetables, nuts, berries and lots of other healthy edible plants...
View ArticleAbandoned Wal Mart Becomes Super Library
An abandoned Wal Mart in McAllen, Texas has become the largest, single story library in America while- at teh same time- setting new standards for urban renewal and resource recycling. Massive, empty...
View ArticleTurning Detroit Ruins into Locally Grown Fish Farms
Detroit’s fortunes rose and fell with the American auto industry for nearly a century, but the last few decades have seen Detroit reach new lows as GM began to import cars from Korea, Ford began to...
View ArticleTiny House Movement Benefits Low Income Families
The Tiny House movement seeks to teach people how to live comfortably in less space. Instead of 10,000 square foot mansions, Tiny Houses are usually between 100 and 400 square feet. The objective is...
View ArticleBabies and Beer Gardens: a New Urban Dynamic
Beer gardens and beer halls are popping up in cities all across America and they are discovering a new category of customer – moms with kids. In traditional German beer gardens, whole families would...
View ArticleWind Tree Project Turns Street Art into Electric Power
A new French start-up, NewWind, is making wind power beautiful! Their new Wind Tree offers almost a hundred mini-windmills on an apparatus designed to look like a tree. Due to the light construction...
View ArticleUrban Renewal: The Greening of Cities
If you imagine a green city, you might not first think of Houston, Texas, but according to a green building index, over half of the commercial square footage there has an EPA Energy Star or LEED...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s First Passive House Condo is On Its Way
Built and designed by (certified passive house architect) Paul Castrucci, Architect, and Ray Sage of Race Age, Inc., the R-951 Residence currently going up in Brooklyn is the latest passive house...
View ArticleAquaponic Rooftop Farm = New Age Fish and Chips
Green roofs and rooftop farming are some of the latest buzzwords of green architecture, but the guys behind Something & Son in Folkestone, England are taking it a step further. They’ve set up an...
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