The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Biochar is, to me, very important for Green Roofs, this is why my deep interest in this amazing discovery.

Organic waste as fuel. Can biochar cut emissions and produce renewable energy? CNN’s Andrew Stevens reports.

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 [...]

When dreams come through! Today the first section of the old railway line, now converted into an elevated park, was inaugurated in NY. It is now possible to walk across the Big Apple at 10 meters high, between secret veggie gardens and metropolitan woods. I’m so deeply moved that I won’t add anything else but [...]

from The Daily Telegraph November 07, 2008 Tomohiro Kitazawa makes an unlikely farmer. He works neither under the sun nor in the fields, instead reporting for duty in the bustling heart of Tokyo. As Japan’s capital city struggles with problems from food safety to global warming to unemployment, a growing number of people in the [...]

International Biochar Initiative (IBI) Conference in Newcastle, UK September 8 – 10, 2008 The leaders in the biochar field will be presenting and attending the conference. Tim Flannery will be giving a public lecture, the poster session alone will have over 80 presentations and there will be a full day for break out discussions. If you [...]

by Antonia Halse (*) The re-branded London Festival of Architecture with its calendar of over 600 events has now ended. The Grow Bags: Urban Allotments installation, produced by What If Projects, showcased a ‘formerly inaccessible and run-down plot of housing estate land transformed into a beautiful oasis of green. Seventy 1/2 tonne bags of soil [...]

From Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt Who’s crazy enough to camp out for a week on the streets of New York City for a chance to be first to buy an iPhone 3G? The Who Farm, that’s who, a newly minted publicity-seeking environmental collective with an agrico-political mission would like to persuade the 44th President of [...]

Up to 30% of the ecological footprint of a city can be attributed to the systems which keep it fed and watered.  But when the mayors of the world’s 40 largest cities met recently to discuss sustainability strategies, food was not on the agenda.  Why? This international debate, organised jointly by Dott 07 (1) and [...]