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The Ten Most Inspiring People In Sustainable Food

March 9, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Fast Company magazine lists and describes their The Ten Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food, many of which I have mentioned in posts the past year.  I am sure everyone has their own local list of inspiring people but these are the national ones that Fast Company recognizes.

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Hydroponic Window Farms In NYC Apartments

February 22, 2010 Environment

The ongoing buzz in various academia circles (architecture, design, landscape and agriculture) is all about vertical urban farms in and on the sides of urban buildings and skyscrapers.
But some creative folks are taking those large scale, high technological concepts, designing and dumbing them down into smaller scale systems and then building systems that can hang [...]

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The Feds Go Vertical In Portland

February 1, 2010 Sustainable Energy

I live less than a hundred miles from this federal building in Portland, Oregon, so as it progresses look for pictorial updates here as I go up to PDX once a week. William Yardley writes in The New York Times,
Urban gardening used to seem subversive. People planted tomatoes in public parks, strung their hops to [...]

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Newspaper Article On New Rooftop Garden Attracts The Attention Of Sarasota City Officials

January 25, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Vincent Dessberg of Sarasota, Florida was happy right after the new year with all the publicity of the article in the local newspaper about his new rooftop vertical vegetable farm. A few days later, city building officials contacted him and said they were concerned the extra weight of the vertical farm might collapse the roof [...]

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Vertical Skyscraper Farms

January 13, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

In the previous post below, I reported about all the traditional surface, land based urban farms that are growing food in metro areas across the country. Even more futuristic and controversial is growing food and raising animals in 30 story urban skyscrapers. Here is a video interview with one of the chief proponents of such [...]

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Commercial Vertical Hydroponic Growing

January 4, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Growing Edge has written about Valcent Products, Inc. numerous times both in the printed version of the magazine and on this site; here, here and here. Below is a company public relations video about what they are currently doing in commercial vertical hydroponic growing in England…

Click for more videos on vertical hydroponic growing…

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Valcent Products Inc.

December 5, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

I posted a few months ago about Valcent Products supplying a British zoo with vegetables for the animals.
Now Valcent has been named by Time magazine as one of the 50 best inventions of 2009.
Additionally, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has agreed to join the advisory board of Valcent Products Inc. Kennedy says he is excited about [...]

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Mayor Richard Daley Has A Free Book “Chicago’s Green Rooftops” For You

December 1, 2009 Compost

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley writes in the introduction of the booklet, Chicago’s Green Rooftops, A Guide To Rooftop Gardening,
Rooftop gardening is an attractive and energy-saving alternative to a conventional rooftop.
Rooftop gardens can keep buildings cooler, save energy, extend the useful life of the roof, and add beauty and useable space.
The City of Chicago is [...]

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Edible Walls Add To The Urban Garden Landscape

November 20, 2009 sustainable gardening

Large scale rooftop gardens are expensive propositions and usually require a lot of technology. Vertical edible plant walls on the other hand, are a fraction of the cost, don’t need much technology and require less maintenance once they are installed. Read about New York City vertical plant walls HERE. Photo credit: Marilynn K. Yee/The [...]

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Intergrow Greenhouse Tomatoes

November 15, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

This is the type of greenhouse operation that will start being built across the U.S. Why transport tomatoes thousands of miles when they can be grown in greenhouses near the consumers who buy them?
Intergrow Greenhouses was started as a small operation in 1998, expanding to their current location in Albion, New York near Lake Ontario [...]

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