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Tag: urban farming
The Navy Yard Unites with Brooklyn Grange in Enormous Urban Garden
City skylines are full of empty roof tops with unused space. A new Brooklyn project means to change that by creating organic garden farms and gardens.
4 Top Green Living Stories
Some top green living stories from the past couples weeks: Support This Pedal-Powered Food Cart on Kickstarter! A Cincinnati-based urban farm program has developed a cart for transporting fresh … [Read full article]
Occupy Farm in the Sky
Going well with this 1,200-acre rooftop farming program I discussed about a week ago, the Occupy Wall Street rooftop farm introduced below looks like it will be quite the inspiration. Help … [Read full article]
1,200 Acres of Rooftop Farms for New York City
New York City has some of the highest-priced real estate in the world. But building rooftops remain grossly underutilized (barring some notable exceptions). However, the city planning department is proposing … [Read full article]
Successful, Cool DC Bike Sharing Program — Video (+ Top Green Living Stories)
Here’s a great video of DC’s highly successful bike-sharing program by the talented filmmakers at Streetfilms (love those guys and girls). Afterwards, you can check out my ‘daily’ roundup of top green living stories from around the internet.