Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Loading ...Say goodbye to chemically-treated produce that has been shipped across the country to your local grocer. Say hello to urban rooftop farming, the next American frontier. A desire for fresh, organic produce and a quest for usable growing space has led urban farmers to rooftops all over the world. There’s [...]
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The bicycle was once the king of the road in the United States. It was the urban commuter’s chariot, a simple piece of technology that connected the home to the workplace, the market to the ice box. Yet its kingship was short-lived, as the rise of the automobile slowly pushed [...]
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The Solar Impulse HB SIA has broken the world record for the longest distance traveled by a solar powered aircraft. The slender machine is fueled by four 10 horsepower motors fed by 11,628 photo voltaic panels and traveled a distance of 3,700 miles. This form of transportation is efficient and [...]
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In the modern garden, nature and technology are working together to raise healthy food. From a hydroponic window garden in Brooklyn to a fish-fed farm in Florida, we indie farmers rely on new technologies to help mother nature raise our crops. How can you, fellow gardener, use technology to change [...]
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Brooklyn based Twig Terrariums is releasing a book called Tiny World Terrariums which will display images of hundreds of microscopic DIY terrariums. These tedious projects consist of miniature mosses and succulents with different life-like models and figures amongst them. Countless hours perfecting craftsmanship and concentration are the fuel
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Jadav “Molai” Payeng of India took ecological matters into his own hands more than 30 years again when he single-handedly began planting the forest that exists today spanning over 1360 acres. This maturing forest serves as habitat for an increasing number of different species and is an effort to balance [...]
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The Wikado Playground located at a grade school in Rotterdam, Netherlands is a sustainable play place designed by 2012Architecten. While the term’ Turbine Blade’ might make one leery at first, the entire outdoors play area is a safe playground which uses five old wind turbine blades which were then cut [...]
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Aquaponics — The farms of the future are growing today. In a valley in the Virgin Islands, in a warehouse in Chicago, on a rooftop in Florida and a greenhouse in Milwaukee, history’s newest and most sustainable form of agriculture has broken out of its seed and has began to [...]
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New York restaurateur John Mooney has redefined the concept of farm-to-table with his amazing rooftop hydroponic garden. The food served at the Bell, Book and Candle is largely sourced from Mooney’s vertical farm, located a few flights of stairs above his Manhattan restaurant. Climb those stairs, and you won’t find an [...]
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