These Modular Urban Gardening Growbeds Water Themselves

Source: treehugger.com Published: March 10, 2015 © Noocity Derek Markham If you’d like to get started growing some of your own food, but you don’t have a lot of room or a lot of time, these wicking beds might help you quickly sprout a garden. I’ve...

Vertical Farms Are Changing the Way We Grow Food

Source: ecowatch.com Published: March 10, 2015  The Vertical Harvest farm is a three-story hydroponic greenhouse on a 30 foot by 150 foot plot of land in Jackson, Wyoming. The company is capable of producing more than 37,000 pounds of greens, 4,400 pounds of herbs and...

This Natural Food Could Finally Put an End to Harmful Pesticides

Source: naturalsociety.com Published: February 25, 2015 And it could save the bees By Jefferey Jaxen Humanity is facing a toxicity problem as our immediate environment becomes increasingly riddled with pesticides. They are making us unhealthy faster than we can study...

A Norwegian Company is Transforming Deserts Into Farmland

Source: smithsonianmag.com Published: March 6, 2015 Seawater is piped to a concentrated solar power plant that powers an evaporative desalination system. The distilled water is used to irrigate plants. (Sahara Forest Project) Solar power plants in Qatar and Jordan,...

The World’s First Plantable Coffee Cup

Source: kickstarter.com Published: March 4, 2015 “A coffee cup that has native seeds embedded within the material to be used for reforestation in your local communities”. Reduce. Reuse. Grow. was founded during a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, landscape architecture senior...

Another ‘Zero Waste’ Grocery Store Opens in France

Source: treehugger.com Published: February 24, 2015 Katherine Martinko High-quality bulk ingredients, as long as you bring your own container — sounds like my kind of dream store! Alice Bigorgne worked in marketing until she read a book that changed her life....

The Fantastic Transformation of Subway Cars into Artificial Reefs

Source: citylab.com Published: February 24, 2015 Stephen Mallon/Front Room Gallery John Metcalfe A photographer spent years watching heavy machinery hurl MTA cars into the Atlantic. Few people can say they’ve journeyed far offshore to watch an excavator sling...