Category Archives: Urban Farming

engineered TREES?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by sarah

What do folks think about this idea? http://grist.org/list/singapores-giant-supertrees-the-ultimate-vertical-gardens/ It’s a way of greening urban environments, but is this sustainability?

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Bicycle City, SC, USA??

Posted on May 15, 2011 by sarah

I was just poking around the Bike Month website, and came across this ad (for once, a useful web ad).  It looks like this has some legs! er, wheels! http://www.bicyclecity.com/ A car-free city in South Carolina is planned south of … Continue reading →

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Urban Gardening on ½ an acre

Posted on April 21, 2009 by JennyR

Tim Beatley (UVA professor) gave a talk at UNC recently about green urbanism efforts around the world. While many of the success stories were abroad in Europe or Australia, Boulder Colorado has a creative urban farming project going on. Kipp … Continue reading →

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