Sweden’s first carbon-positive district, Ljusekulla integrates agriculture throughout its 80 hectares
https://www.skanska.se/en-us/about-skanska/sustainability/h22/ljusekulla/hat tip: We Don’t Have Time https://app.wedonthavetime.org/
Nemo’s Garden: the first ever underwater cultivation of terrestrial plants
http://www.nemosgarden.com
“Walking forest” of 1000 trees for Dutch city
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/04/walking-forest-of-1000-trees-transforms-dutch-city-aoe
Winner of the Third Urban Greenhouse Challenge
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/8/1/gamification-x-modularity-the-key-to-socially-impactful-community-agriculture-thats-scalable
More on the Urban Greenhouse Challenge
https://urbangreenhousechallenge.nl/info
hat tip: https://www.agritecture.com/
Artificial photosynthesis without sunlight
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/06/23/artificial-photosynthesis-can-produce-food-without-sunshine
hat tip: https://www.agritecture.com/
Planting Justice - community garden and returning the formerly incarcerated to community
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/07/planting-justice-oakland-california-food-prison
Editorial Comment: I remember a gardening program in the 1970s at a MA prison and that, originally, MA prisons and state hospitals had farms which the inmates worked. As the saying goes, “You can fix all the world’s problems in a garden.”
Montreal apartment building to include basement farm
https://inhabitat.com/the-basement-of-this-apartment-building-contains-a-farm/
Ahupua’a - millennium old Hawaiian watershed agricultural system
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220818-ahupuaa-hawaiis-ancient-land-management-system
Pro and con of indoor farms
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/17/indoor-vertical-farms-agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/21/the-rise-of-vertical-farms-could-indoor-plant-factories-be-the-norm-in-10-years
First baseball stadium garden
https://www.theitaliangardenproject.com/blog/tomatoes-at-the-diamond
NYC AgTech Week 2022 - September 26 to October 1
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/6/23/nyc-agriculture-collective-thought-for-food-partner-for-nyc-agtech-week-2022
Wetlands park in Fortaleza, Brazil
https://inhabitat.com/rachel-de-queiroz-park-preserves-the-wetlands-in-brazil/
Editorial Comment: wetlands and water are probably the fastest and most effective way to draw down carbon from the atmosphere and expand our productive ecologies. More at http://solarray.blogspot.com/2021/04/geotherapy-not-geoengineering-please.html
