Tuesday, January 22, 2019

City Agriculture - January 22, 2019

Oasia Hotel Downtown, Singapore - a building growing green a year and a half after being finished
http://www.woha.net//#Oasia-Hotel-Downtown

Restoration of Temperate House, UKs largest Victorian greenhouse
http://www.donaldinsallassociates.co.uk/projects/project/temperate-house-royal-botanic-gardens
https://www.archdaily.com/901076/temperate-house-donald-insall-associates
https://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-victorian-glasshouse-receives-a-glorious-restoration/

Greenbelly, a vertical grow wall infill design for urban food production
http://www.greenbelly.org
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1903306293/greenbelly-vertical-urban-garden
https://www.facebook.com/GreenBelly.org/
https://twitter.com/TheGreenBelly/
https://www.treehugger.com/modular-design/greenbelly-avl-studio-camille-lassale.html

Barangaroo House - 3 story restaurant and bar building edged with ornamental and edible plants 
https://www.archdaily.com/899710/barangaroo-house-collins-and-turner
https://www.collinsandturner.com/architecture/barangaroo-house/
https://www.barangaroohouse.com.au

80 Acres Farms building first fully automated indoor farm in Hamilton, OH
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanabandoim/2018/09/25/first-fully-automated-indoor-farm-being-built-in-ohio/#3ecf6f866404
https://www.eafarms.com

"Farmscape is the largest urban farming venture in the country. We design, install and manage urban farms, ranging from residential backyards to multi-acre agrihoods.”
https://farmscapegardens.com

Solar Foods - a Finnish start-up venture which will make food from electricity, water, hydrogen, and trace elements to feed microbes which have "a protein content of up to 60 percent and an amino acid composition similar to soybeans or algae"
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solar-foods-readies-hydrogen-to-protein-pilot#gs.FA7Ttcg

Copenhagen rooftop farm to close because it has no parking?
https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/copenhagens-famous-rooftop-farm-may-have-close-because-it-has-no-parking.html

Urban forestry resources from Rocky Mountain Institute's Carbon-Free City Handbook
https://rmi.org/insight/the-carbon-free-city-handbook-biological-resources/

Algae Clad - “urban curtain” which "captures CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it in real-time: approximately one kilo of CO2 per day, equivalent to that of 20 large trees,” a photobioreactor in a digitally designed and custom made bioplastic container which uses daylight to feed the living micro-algal cultures and releases luminescence at night
https://www.photosynthetica.co.uk/urban-algae-clad
https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/algaeclad-photosynthetica-ecologicstudio.html

Rivendale Farms - Automated smaller acreage agriculture for a "boutique, cutting-edge farm, enabled by technology, that produces great food” with a billion dollar backer
https://rivendalefarms.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/technology/farm-technology-milkers-robots.html
Editorial Comment:  There are quite a few billionaires interested and investing in agriculture:  Jeremy Grantham, Warren Buffett, whose son, Howard G. Buffett, earned his living as a  farmer, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates through their foundation, Kat Taylor, wife of Tom Steyer, and many others.

Osram’s Phytofy LED lighting system - tunable LEDs for horticultural research (and development)
https://www.osram.com/pia/horticulture-products.jsp
https://inhabitat.com/this-high-tech-led-lighting-could-grow-veggies-in-space/

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