Nearly 14 million people in America don’t have access to large grocery stores that stock fresh fruit and vegetables. More than 80% of them live in urban areas. And while it’d be nice for produce shops to spring up in these ...READ»
Green thumb, meet the golden shower. Golden shower, meet Guldkannan Towa, a plastic watering can designed explicitly to hold and pour pee.
The can addresses a curious, albeit patently gross, fact of the organic-gardening world: ...READ»
This past weekend, while President Obama snarled Manhattan traffic to attend the first session of the 65th annual United Nations General Assembly, First Lady Michelle Obama took the spouses of visiting dignitaries out of town on a ...READ»
One only needs to note the proliferation of Victory Gardens during World War II or the past year's explosion of community plots to know that when economic times are tough, Americans head back to the garden. But today's gardeners are ...READ»
We report on a lot of projects in the design and development stages, so it's always nice to hear from companies that have completed a green project. We first wrote about PNC Bank's plan to build the largest green living wall in the ...READ»
The Spring Gardens Center is nicer than most hotels, and even homes. But it's actually a $6 million hostel for the homeless built by St. Mungo's, a homeless charity in London. It's a novel idea: Instead of sticking homeless people ...READ»
How many more people would start backyard gardens if they didn't have to spend time and energy on the set-up process? Probably a lot--at least, that's what designer Chris Chapman hopes to prove with his Roll-Out Veg ...READ»
From the crumbling ashes of the fallen financial system rises a new type of bank: one for heirloom seeds. It sounds like the beginning of a post-apocalyptic novel, but it's really happening in Petaluma, California, where an abandoned ...READ»
Bikes rigged to provide power for laptops, TVs, and other electronics are nothing new, but the water-recycling garden uses pedal-power for a different purpose: watering plants. The water-recycling garden, currently on display at ...READ»
We learned last week that the Obama's are working on a 1,100-square-foot White House vegetable garden to be cared for by local fifth graders and the first family. Now web-based vegetable-garden design application Plangarden has ...READ»
