Category Archives: urban desertification

Vancouver’s micro-gardens: a challenge for international organizations combating hunger (City Farmer News)

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/06/strathcona-community-micro-gardens-in-vancouver/ Strathcona Community Micro-Gardens in Vancouver Linked by Michael Levenston   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lcnCVHPr-4&feature=player_embedded   Needs funding to build dozens of micro gardens throughout the Strathcona neighbourhood and help turn this into the heart of the greenest city Overview: … Continue reading →

Posted in allotment gardens, community gardens, family gardens, kitchen garden, urban agriculture/farming, urban desertification, vertical farming

Growing your own fruits and vegetables in the city (City Farmers News / Udaipur Times)

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/09/09/city-farming-in-udaipur-city-of-lakes-india/ City Farming in Udaipur – City of Lakes, India Linked by Michael Levenston http://www.udaipurtimes.com/roof-top-terrace-farming-in-city-udaipur/ Farming In City! Farming Without A Field! Is This possible? September 8, 2010 This guest article is written by Mr. Manish Jain … Continue reading →

Posted in container/bottle gardening, herb gardens, rooftop gardening, terrace garden, urban desertification

Urban desertification, rooftop gardening, urban agriculture, wind energy (Greenprophet)

Posted on September 4, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/page/8/ Lease Your Roof To A Fiddler, A Farmer, or An Independent Power Producer Tafline Laylin | August 19th, 2010 Need a place to park your solar panels or urban garden? SEGlet’s website offers a revolutionary crowdsourcing … Continue reading →

Posted in Desertification, energy/bioenergy/biofuels, rooftop gardening, urban agriculture/farming, urban desertification, vertical farming

Roof gardens: functional areas for employees and visitors (ASLA)

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/greenroof.html Washington Mutual Center Green Roof Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. What looks like the windswept shorelines of Washington State is actually the Washington Mutual Green Roof, located on top of a commercial high-rise in downtown Seattle. Green roofs … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecology - environment, rooftop gardening, urban desertification

Urban desertification: redeveloping a corporate campus into a prairieland habitat (ASLA)

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/kresge.html Kresge Foundation Headquarters Troy, Michigan, U.S.A. The Kresge Foundation occupies land that was used for industrial agriculture until the 1970s. Years of single-crop cultivation stripped the site of its native vegetation and biodiversity. PROJECT TYPE Suburban … Continue reading →

Posted in biodiversity, Ecology - environment, ecosystems, urban desertification, water conservation / harvesting, water management

From Brownfield to Greenfield (ASLA)

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/brownfield.html From Brownfield to Greenfield Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.A. At Wellesley College, the school planned a revitalization of an area called the Alumnae Valley. Over time, the valley had become the site for the college’s physical plant, industrialized … Continue reading →

Posted in urban desertification, urban gardening

Urban desertification, brownfields, bioremediation and community green spaces (ASLA)

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/Vid_Brownfields.html From Industrial Wasteland to Community Park Key Facts: Brownfields are abandoned, environmentally-contaminated industrial or commercial sites. People who come into frequent contact with the leftover solvents, cleaners, and oil found on these sites often develop major … Continue reading →

Posted in community gardens, environmental degradation, urban agriculture/farming, urban desertification

TIME TO ACT TO COMBAT GLOBAL HUNGER IS NOW (UNNews)

Posted on October 1, 2009 by

Read at : UNNews TIME TO ACT TO COMBAT GLOBAL HUNGER IS NOW, IRELAND TELLS UN DEBATE New York, Sep 28 2009  7:05PM The fact that one billion people on the planet suffer from hunger represents a collective failure by … Continue reading →

Posted in allotment gardens, community gardens, CST, desert/desert gardening, Desertification, drought, family farming, family gardens, food / food security, food crisis, hunger / famine, kitchen garden, malnutrition, school gardens, sustainable agriculture, UNCCD, urban agriculture/farming, urban desertification

Chemical Ecology and Ecosystem Research (University of Vienna)

Posted on December 13, 2007 by

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED Read at : gisaf@aon.at – http://gisaf.sil.at/oasen-altlinks.html My good friend Gunter NATTKAMPER (Gisaf) oriented me to the very interesting website of the Department of Chemical Ecology and Ecosystem Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna http://chemsrv0.pph.univie.ac.at/cms/index.php?id=277 where I … Continue reading →

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