Food forests are everything: creating edible landscapes helps nature thrive in Afro-descendant lands
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/23/environment-biodiversity-afro-descendants-latin-america-food-forests-aoe
Sky gardens in Fujian Province, China
https://x.com/ShangguanJiewen/status/1971522638615871743
The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01201-2/abstract
https://eatforum.org/update/eat-lancet-commission-warns-food-systems-breach-planetary-limits/
Solar glass with quantum dots increases lettuce crop yields almost 40%
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/10/07/new-solar-glass-cranks-up-lettuce-crop-yields-by-almost-40/
Charles River floating wetlands for water purification
https://thecharles.org/floating-wetlands/
previously: City Agriculture - September 6, 2019
Charles River Floating Wetland
Then again,
Water Authority Considers Proposal to Let Sewage Keep Flowing Into the Charles River - October 2025
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/30/charles-mwra-sewage-proposal/
Editorial Comment: John Todd’s Healing Earth is a great introduction to ecology systems building:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576932/healing-earth-by-john-todd/9781623172985/
My review of the book: https://solarray.blogspot.com/2019/03/healing-earth-through-waters.html
Previously, August 9, 2016
Handy-pods: wetland plants to filter human waste in floating villages
https://wetlandswork.com/products-and-services/sanitation-in-challenging-environments/handy-pods/
Cambodian floating toilets
https://inhabitat.com/floating-toilets-filter-human-waste-in-cambodia-naturally-via-wetland-plants/
Can cities become self-reliant in food? The Cleveland Study from 2012
Scenario I (of III) uses 80% of every vacant lot to generate 22% - 48% of Cleveland’s demand for fresh produce (vegetables and fruits),
25% of both poultry and shell eggs, and 100% of honey
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264275111000692
hat tip Michael Bauwens and John Thackara
Planning for Agriculture in Virginia from Farmland Trust, a state or province level model
https://farmland.org/va-planning-for-ag
China solar company GCL scaling up agrivoltaics with tunable and bi-facial solar panels
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/10/17/china-is-totally-crushing-trumps-fossil-fuel-dream-with-agrivoltaics/
Not a cornfield - remedial agriculture art project in LA from 20 years ago and its echoes
https://metabolicstudio.org/not-a-cornfield
https://www.pbs.org/video/lauren-bon-restores-urban-land-with-la-river-water-4fpwp0/
A Portable Nutrient-recovering, Waterless, Unisex Urinal System - from Earle Barnhart and Hilde Maingay, two from the old New Alchemy Institute from back in the day
https://newalchemists.net/welcome-to-nutrient-recycling/cubies/
Others from New Alchemy who are still active include John Todd whose latest story at https://oceanarks.substack.com/ is about how solving problems sometimes upsets the status quo
and Bill McLarney who is continuing over 40 years of work in Costa Rica with ANAI:
http://www.anaicostarica.org/
How 70,000 African farmers use a public blockchain to manage their agricultural cooperatives
https://medium.com/@Blockchain4Good/how-do-70-000-african-farmers-use-a-public-blockchain-to-manage-their-agricultural-cooperatives-d495ae463c4d
hat tip to Michel Bauwens
Ukrainian rewilding project offers recovery for the land and for veterans of war
https://theconversation.com/ukraines-massive-nature-project-is-helping-veterans-and-land-recover-268343
