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City Agriculture - May 5, 2022

by gmoke Fri May 6th, 2022 at 03:45:05 AM EST

Zero emissions cherry orchard in New Zealand
https:/cleantechnica.com/2022/01/20/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard

Follow the Food series from the BBC and Corteva Agriscience
How we might build a food utopia
https:/www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/how-we-might-build-a-food-utopia
The People Building Edible Cities
https:/www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-people-building-edible-cities

Urban Forest - 20 story carbon neutral residential green building for Brisbane, Australia
https:/koichitakada.com/projects/urban-forest
https:/inhabitat.com/urban-forest-is-set-to-be-the-greenest-residential-building

Agritecture Design - software for designing better farms, urban and rural - now in beta
https:/design.agritecture.com
Example: a farm for an IKEA parking lot in NJ
https:
www.agritecture.com/blog/2021/9/1/could-this-new-design-be-ikeas-parking-lot-of-the-future

Treehouse with "green walls, facades and rooftops, plus water features, natural light, and ventilation strategies to green the traditional office building"
https:
www.archdaily.com/974806/ronald-lu-and-partners-competition-winning-design-re-imagines-the-w orkplace
https:
inhabitat.com/biophilic-treehouse-imagines-a-greener-office-experience

2021 Census for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)
https:/www.agritecture.com/census

Bacteriological replacement for Haber-Bosch produced fertilizers?
https:
www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/2/8/can-ancient-bacteria-mitigate-the-harmful-co2-effects-of-c onventional-fertilizer

Black-led urban farms thrive until they have to fight for their land
https:
www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/05/black-led-urban-farms-are-thriving-until-they-ha ve-to-fight-for-their-land

Agrico Qatar recent in-store aquaponic vertical farm at Carrefour Qatar Majid Al Futtaim City Centre Mall, Westbay, Doha
https:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6910156449646006272

Refurbishing an abandoned building into a successful mall through plants
http://www.clouarchitects.com/projects/capitamall-nuohemule/
https:/inhabitat.com/plant-filled-mall-used-to-be-an-abandoned-building

Living Grid house with exterior walls designed for plantings
http://www.larchitects.com.sg/projects/the-living-grid-house
https:/inhabitat.com/living-grid-house-balances-nature-with-functionality

Net zero energy city planned for Egypt - producing more energy AND food than it consumes
https:/urb.ae/projects/nexgensustainablecity
https:/inhabitat.com/first-climate-positive-net-zero-city-in-the-world


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Now if we could just get US suburbanites and "planners" to get brain transplants so we can stop regulating against having anything other than invasive species, water intensive, chemical intensive monocultures for lawns.
by rifek on Fri May 6th, 2022 at 06:06:45 PM EST
A number of cities in the western part of the US have programs to encourage people to take out conventional grass lawns and replace them with something more suitable for the local climate.
by asdf on Sun May 22nd, 2022 at 03:33:48 PM EST
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