The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

By the British Ecological Society Bumblebee experts have discovered a way of breeding the Short-haired Bumblebee in captivity, removing the last major hurdle for its successful reintroduction to the UK. Announcing the news at the British Ecological Society’s “Gardening for wildlife” event at the British Science Festival today [Monday 7th September], Dr Nikki Gammans will [...]

From Ecogizmo By Jeff Salton You only have to watch a TV show in which the camera flies over any major city to realize the numbers of ugly, stark, gray, flat roofs that occupy millions of square feet but contribute nothing to the environment. It’s almost an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ attitude we [...]

Terragrams is a podcast series disseminating discussions about the landscape. As our societal conscience and appreciation of the landscape heightens, Terragrams provides a wide portal into landscape architecture and the lives and thoughts of the professionals who shape it. The project aims at capturing, distributing and archiving these voices. It is an easily accessible, open [...]

Dragonfly, A Metabolic Farm For Urban Agriculture New York City 2009 By Vincent Callebaut Architectures Excerpts from Vincent Callebaut Architectures: “Architecture has to serve a new agriculture and to design for the new social desire for ecologic mutation and food autonomy! The Dragonfly project suggests building a prototype of an urban farm offering a mixed [...]

Amazing project but they forgot to include Urban Farming. Anyway, it is already an amazing step from what we have got today, isn’t it? The future looks bright! By Karen Cilento (ArchDaily) The Zuidkas, an experimental project commissioned by the Government Building Agency, challenges architects with an imaginary office building of over 11,000 square meters [...]

by Mike Chino (*) Addressing the urgent need to green our built environment, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects have conceived of a Super Sustainable City that re-envisions Gothenburg, Sweden as a future-forward ecotopia. Designed as a dense and interconnected urban area, the master plan incorporates everything from green rooftop gardens to water and energy harvesting roadways, towering [...]

Great video make by the Magazine Monocle about the tip 25 elements that make a city acording to them: “Monocle believes that the measure of a city is more about everyday wonders – pavements, well-designed schools, punctual transport – rather than one-off grand projects.” http://www.monocle.com/sections/design/Web-Articles/City-Slickers/

By Olivia Chen (*) New York City’s urban grid is dense, so when new developments pop up, we root for intelligent and environmentally-positive design that balances out the concrete with a little bit of greenery. Architect Enrique Norten and his NYC-based firm, TEN ARQUITECTOS, are in the midst of building a mixed-use high-rise in Hell’s [...]

By Dave Hoekstra Chicago Sun-Times September 3, 2008 In late July the folks at the Uncommon Ground restaurant, 1401 W. Devon, opened their 2,500-square foot organic rooftop farm. The lofty mission is to deliver organic produce for the downstairs restaurant and to use the garden to teach adult volunteers and children how to grow food [...]