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 | 2 Comments »
This “auto-sufficient amphibious” city will mostly likely end up being some kind of eco-resort for the rich long before it becomes a refuge for the displaced. But oh I wish I could live on it now.
Each city-pad can sustain 50,000 inhabitants and includes plans for self-sustainable resources, zero or no co2 emissions, and obviously the […]
Filed under: city, lilypad, future, environmental planning on July 6th, 2008 | No Comments »
I want to make a claim that an outdoor leisure environment, whether it takes the form of a public park, a private beach, or a green backyard, is correlated with a greater degree of understanding and empathy for our natural landscape. Marcelo Bonta writes of his concern about children of minority or heterogeneous race […]
Filed under: future, fostering identity, natural landscape on June 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Read this article from the us forest service on our future leisure environments.
photo credit: Svadilfari
This article predicts “the probabilities of future events associated with natural-resource management, wildland-recreation management, environmental pollution, population-workforce-leisure, and urban environments. Though some of the predictions projected to the year 2050 may sound fantastic now, the authors think that some of […]
Filed under: future, natural landscape, environmental planning on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Eventually this will be either reality or the next Lost. Hopefully we won’t have a fleet of spaceships with hierarchies of civilian classes experiencing food and water shortages and poor educational opportunities.
photo credit:chefrandenchefranden
Filed under: future, observations and opinions, goals on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
When talking about the natural landscape/environment here so far (i.e. environmental justice, environmental planning, identity, and motivation to care about the natural environment), where and what is the “future”? When I think of “our future environment” my mind immediately jumps to spaceship oxygen gardens.But, unfortunately the majority of earthlings do not have spaceship access, much […]
Filed under: gardens, future, observations and opinions on June 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
