The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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

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/

Nursery & Garden Industry Australia (NGIA) hosted the inaugural Urban GreenScapes Symposium on 17 February 2009 to unveil the benefits of plants and green-life in the urban landscape and to encourage collaboration between all stakeholder groups to drive unity of message and develop awareness to create greener Australian cities. At the link below you can [...]

The planet is 4.5 billion years old and has gone through many natural disasters and mass extinctions long before we were here. That is the nature of Life which goes through 3 stages: Creation, Preservation and Destruction (or change of state). As humans we have been adapting to change since we are on this planet [...]

Beautiful article by Tim Wood, Green Roof Product Manager at Permanite Engineered Roofing Systems, that looks at the role that Green Roofs have to tackle climate change.   GREEN ROOFS – INCREASING OUR GREEN FOOTPRINT In the race to address a shortage in affordable housing, and with a very visible nod to the growing problem [...]

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 [...]

Beautiful article about a great project that is happening now at Melbourne University! Fantastic! “Researchers at the University of Melbourne’s Burnley campus are examining the suitability of Australian native plants in ‘green roofs’; shallow rooftop gardens which are becoming increasingly popular internationally for their environmental and energy saving benefits. Green roofs have amazing potential but [...]

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 [...]