There are some people in the world who, try as they might, can never, ever keep an indoor plant alive. (Hint: me.) Here to save the day -- or at least the life of a few wax vines -- is Brooklyn designer Danielle Trofe, who has ...READ»
There are countless reasons why your indoor office should look more like the great outdoors. Research has shown that vegetation can purify the air, improve employee productivity, and create a natural sound barrier between you and your ...READ»
Plants: they're good for more than just growing food, flowers, and fuel. A futuristic-sounding company called Applied DNA Sciences recently signed a deal with an as-yet-unnamed luxury goods company to use unique plant DNA to track ...READ»
Not only effective in reducing energy use, a vertically scaled garden, or living wall injects a shot of green into gray urban streetscapes. Last week we wrote about North America's largest largest living wall, designed by Kari ...READ»
Le Petit Prince robot is perhaps the least optimistic design to come around in a long time. Created by Martin Miklica, the greenhouse robot is "specially designed to help the future exploration and expanding population in the Mars" ...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»
Believe it or not, the illegal trade of endangered plant species is a big business. The illicit trade of animals is more well known than plants in part because the trade is easier to track. That's one reason behind a proposal to track ...READ»
Let's not beat around the bush. Fifteen thousand of the world's medicinal plants are nearing extinction, thanks to pollution caused by population growth and rapid industrialization. Each die-off also produces a ripple effect; for ...READ»
Romses Architects' Harvest Green Project, a winning entry in Vancouver's "The 2030 Challenge," explores urban vertical farming in mixed-use buildings.
The architecture firm envisions a building that contains ...READ»
A group of scientists and researchers from the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and Columbia University is working on an iPhone application that turns budding scientists into valuable research contributors.
The application ...READ»
