The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Rainbow World Fund is partnering with CARE on this project. The Haiti Urban Garden Project seeks to improve the food supply and income-earning potential for struggling families in this devastated region of the country. Targeted households will use composted waste to grow small vegetable gardens. Located in backyards, on rooftops and even front porches, these [...]

Plants have found a home on walls for centuries, but are sometimes incongruous with architecture, often breaking down the structural integrity of a building’s facade. Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Garden System (http://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com), known as Le Mur Vegetal in French, allows both plants and buildings to live in harmony with one another. The botanist cum vertical landscape [...]

From: New York Real Estate Magazine It would be a total departure if Work AC’s utopian vision were ever to bear fruit—and we do mean fruit, because it’s an apartment building topped with a working farm. “We thought we’d bring the farm back to the city and stretch it vertically,” says Work AC co-principal Dan [...]

A new program in an Indian slum aims to create a “culinary park network” on rooftops, as well as teach residents healthy cooking and proper nutrition. The program, established in Hyderabad, the capital city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Is based on the work of Erik Sumanis, co-director of the “Base of the [...]

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