Set to turn one high emission commercial building in Copenhagen into the site of a thriving urban farm, Refarmed is part of a growing movement to transform the way we produce and consume food.
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An engineering firm has constructed one of London’s first ‘living wall’ scaffolding structures on a building site. Good for air and noise pollution, as well as the local scenery, green walls are one example of sorely needed solutions to big-city pollution.
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Worried about where your vegetables come from? A Belgian supermarket has announced plans to grow and sell their very own vegetables in a rooftop garden starting next year. It follows an increasing trend towards urban farming, which aims for more sustainable, zero-mile food supplies for city dwellers.
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A supermarket in Berlin debuted the first in-store farming installation in Europe. The ‘Kräuter Garten’ (German for ‘herb garden’) is a futuristic vertical set-up which provides fresh and organic herbs to customers. The high-tech installation might be a peek into the future of urban agriculture.
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With Expo 15 coming to an end, host city Milan is advocating an international food policy protocol that seeks to promote food security and sustainable development objectives.
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The idea of integrating cities, urban dwellers and urban landscape with animals and plants is not something new anymore. We look at how one example of urban gardening can adapt to the ever-smaller urban landscapes of the 21st century.
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With World Kitchen Garden Day taking place this weekend, we take a look at some of the ways technology is helping kitchen gardeners worldwide cultivate a better homegrown crop.
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Spring may be the proverbial season for cleaning but autumn is shaping up to be the season of planting your own vegetables as Urban Leaves hosts a series of workshops about starting and maintaining your own kitchen garden.
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From Berlin to Bangalore, backyard-deprived urban dwellers are using every spare inch of space to grow gardens on terraces and rooftops while others are pooling talents and resources to set up and manage community gardens.
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Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture, written by Ryerson University professors Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar, and Joe Nasr explores the new era of urban agriculture.
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A new report by the Urban Design Lab (UDL) of Columbia University’s Earth Institute explores the potential for urban agriculture in New York City. The report, “The Potential for Urban Agriculture in New York City,” complements the existing discussion on sustainable cities.
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Recognising healthy ecosystems as the basis for sustainable water resources and stable food security can help produce more food per unit of agricultural land, improve resilience to climate change and provide economic benefits for poor communities, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in partnership w
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