The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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 [...]

By by Alexandra Kain (*) Rotterdam-based architects MVRDV (http://www.mvrdv.nl/_v2/) recently won the Gwanggyo City Centre Competition with their design of this incredible new city just south of Seoul, South Korea. Envisioned as a verdant acropolis of organic ‘hill’ structures, the proposed complex is a fully self-sufficient city for up to 77,000 inhabitants. Similar nodes, common [...]

A survey has found that New York is among the US cities where the practice of putting green roofs on buildings is growing fastest. The survey was by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a non-profit North American group based in Toronto, which is a founding member of the World Green Roof Infrastructure Network (WGRIN). Such [...]