Urban Projects
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Permaculture in the Cities – An Interview with Geoff Lawton
Photo © Craig Mackintosh Marcin Gerwin: Permaculture is currently hardly known in Poland. Could you explain what it is? Geoff…
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The Power of Local Unity: Small US Town Enacts Free Food Trade (Sedgewick, Maine, USA)
via NewsBeaconIreland Sedgwick, Maine, the first town in the US to legalize any kind of food transaction as free and legal in…
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2013: The Year Bike Sharing Came of Age (USA)
Once dismissed as a hippy-dippy dream, bike sharing is now reality in New York, Chicago and other cities. by Jay…
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Tunneling into School
What? Why would anyone want to tunnel back into school? Well, I have no idea, but in the past six…
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Harriet Nakabaale’s Camp Green (Uganda)
Kampala (the capital of Uganda) is a city where overcrowding seems to suffocate many neighborhoods and where nothing seems to…
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Grow Heathrow: Growing Inspiration
The recently publicised findings of the Davies Commission Report (1) have put airport expansion in the UK into the media…
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Over 200 Food Plants on Just a Tiny 1/10th Acre of Cold Climate Urban Land
The scattergun technique in permaculture – planting over 300 edible plants in your backyard to see what sticks, what takes…
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The Food Is Free Project
The Food is Free Project is an amazing initiative based out of Austin, Texas that grows community connections alongside food…
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Laundry to Landscape Urban Greywater Installation: Greening the Sonoran Desert (Phoenix, Arizona)
This past November (2013), Watershed Management Group’s Green Living Co-op installed a "Laundry to Landscape" greywater system at my house.…
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Making a Terrace Garden, Part II
Photos by David Ashwanden Readers requested more pictures to make it easier to understand the steps I took to create…
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Nour Al Barakah – Planting a Sense of Community (Amman, Jordan)
Store room and NAB sign logo Nadia and I have known Rosemary Bdeir and her daughter Hala now for more…
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Brooklyn Grange: A Rooftop Farm in New York (video)
Geoff Lawton at Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm “That view behind me is not a painted backdrop!” said Geoff Lawton to…
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