Category: agriculture
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FOOD inc.
The beauty of being taken down by illness is the opportunity to lay on the couch and catch up with some movies that have been in the queue. One such film was FOOD inc., a documentary that provided a concise summary of the content of Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma –…
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Urban Farming Video
The illustrious Will Allen, via City Farmer:
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Elements of Urban Agriculture
I had the opportunity today to see a presentation by local urban agriculture guru Marc Boucher-Colbert (the man behind the Rocket Restaurant rooftop garden here in Portland). Instead of focusing directly on rooftops, he outlined a broad version of urban agriculture through an investigation of a range of possible strategies for our cities. This is…
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Urban Ag-gregations
Nothing is more hot this year than the idea of urban agriculture in it’s many forms. Perhaps due to the economic downturn or maybe just a natural extension of our new found urban ecologic sensibility that includes urban agriculture at the highest levels – there is not shortage of the wonderful and the questionable in…
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Linx: 08.05.09
L+U LinkFest: 08.09.09A collection of links from the past two weeks. See the entire list via delicious > landscapeurbanism :: Crisis Modes – image via ArchidoseLandscape+Urbanism: A Daily Dose of Architecture: Crisis Modes Art for Urban Planners – Part One | Planetizen Maps are all around us Franklin & Marshall – Public Parks and the…
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Reinterpreting a Classic
Via Treehugger: “In 1982 Agnes Denes created one of the first examples of ecological art–she planted a wheatfield on an abandoned piece of land in downtown New York. Now, 27 years later, her work is being reinterpreted and updated, only this time in the east end of London. A derelict site has been planted with…
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Interim Vacancy
Ever have one of those moments when you read, virtually word-for-word and idea-for-idea about an urban issue that you’ve been mulling and kicking around in your brain for some time. The idea of vacant land is predominant everywhere in varying levels, but offers potential for future development as well as valuable real estate that often…
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Urban Chickens Build – 6
The final installment, the completion of the Chicken Cube, with ramp, some final security measures, ecoroof, and rain chain downspout. The ecoroof plants were leftovers from the Ecoroof Vendor Fair and had a diverse variety of sedums along with some native and other perennials, grasses, and herbs. The front side, with all the hardware cloth…
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Some SDATisfaction
‘A Leaner, Greener Detroit: A Report by the American Institute of Architects Sustainable Design Assessment Team‘ is (finally) available for download. As one of the contributors, it is great to finally see it in living color. Find the link to the final report here… I will be posting on this after I’ve had a chance…
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Urban Chickens Build – 5
Sort of a conceptual jump cut in the process, as two weekends of rain hampered plans to make progress on the Chicken Cube… but a big push this weekend (and a loaner of the wonderful compound miter saw that I am now officially) has yielded a vision close to complete. Not too many pics of…