Our Future Environment

I just ordered this book, The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. It was published in an English edition in 1978 and is considered influential to various ‘back to nature’ farming and gardening movements.

Fukuoka worked as a research scientist in Japan specializing in plant pathology but he eventually left his career in pursuit of understanding ‘nature’ […]

Filed under: farm, future, natural landscape on September 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s already well blogged, this vertical farming idea, and its currently the 8th most emailed article on the NYTimes.

Vertical farming is currently only conceptual and is the work of a Columbia professor, Dickson Despommier (of the apple trees) and his grad students. It begins with a skyscraper used to raise food such as fruit, vegetables, […]

Filed under: farm, city, future, environmental planning on July 16th, 2008 | 3 Comments »