Category: plants
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Plant Propaganda
A recent visit to the Clean Water Services Field Operations Center in Beaverton offered the added bonus of some interesting signage about native plantings… While I’m not a native purist by any means, I like the inventive way of conveying the idea. :: images by CWS – photos by author Stay tuned for some pics…
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Bad Idea of the Week
This interesting product appeared last week from Inhabitat, consisting of small squares of grass for your desk or home. “These grass squares were designed at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel, in 2009 as a way to combine nature and architecture.” While a laudable concept in theory, the idea of bring in grass…
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Salad Days
Not the first version of this, but another cool living edible wall, via Core77 – for a product called Reviwall from an Italian group called ReviPlant. :: image via Core77 :: images via ReviPlant Another cool idea of this is from Green Living Technologies (GLT) which has sponsored, along with Campbells soup, a series of…
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3 New Blogs
A few interesting new blogs that have either been pointed out to me or I’ve stumbled upon in the last weeks… do you have a blog that would be worth a cross-link? Let me know.Fitting nicely into the Veg.itectural, I got an email from blogger Will Gorman about his blog ‘Cleaner Air through Green Roofs’…
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How to Grow Fresh Air
Check out this short video from TED talks by Kamal Meattle… on the purification potential of indoor plants… not a new idea, but some new attention and some good fodder for discussion. From TED: “With its air-filtering plants and sustainable architecture, Kamal Meattle’s office park in New Delhi is a model of green business. Meattle…
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Soak it Up
I’m currently working away on an upcoming presentation for a conference happening next week down at the beautiful Oregon Garden. Sponsored by Sprout (Sustainable Plant Research and Outreach), the conference “Soak It Up: Phytotechnology Solutions for Water Challenges” focuses on some fo the functional aspects of plants as vital components in addressing small and large-scale…
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Meadowlicious: National Wildflower Centre
Buildings that are used to celebrate botanical phenomena seem the most appopriate to become melded into the landscape in more meaningful ways. Aside from abstracted metaphor, there is a direct link between the building and the content and context in which it is meant to reference. A recent competition and subsequent announcement of winners for…
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Host Analog
The insertion of ecological artworks into the urban patterns offers opportunities to confront our relationship in nature in new ways. Additionally, the location in proximity to density and multi-modal traffic (versus, something tucked away in a far-off location) also gives artists a significantly larger audience to express concepts to. One very central piece in Portland…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 3
Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) continues with some amazing examples (and not to mince word, there are shitloads of them on the web). Perhaps a trend, perhaps overexposed, or perhaps we’ve finally reached the point where we’ve transcended the original and just become purveyors of the mundane. A quick snippet of the amount of blog…
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Desert Oasis
While we think of the politically charged border-wall and crossing as a confrontational experience, why can’t these international transition spaces be celebrated as points of interest and beauty. The competition for border crossing for pedestrians between Mexico and the United States in 2005 was won by the Belgian firm OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen,…