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Category Archives: 2. (Living) Environmental Technologies
SOLEfood Build
Micheal Leventson of City Farmer put a collection of all the media we received from Our SOLEfood Build on his website at http://www.cityfarmer.info. I have reproduced some of his photos and links here. Thanks for putting all this together, Micheal … Continue reading
Another Build: SOLEfood Urban Farm A Success
My son and I wandered in to our neighborhood JJ Bean on Sunday morning. I was still on a high from from yesterday’s build. I picked up a copies of all the daily’s and read the articles about SOLEfood – so … Continue reading
Another Great Killarney Gardens Story From EAGA
Check out this link from EAGA, the people who kindly made all the planting possible. They dubbed themselves soil relocation engineers. Nice term. That pretty much captured the spirit of the day. Maybe I might add Wet Soil Relocation Engineers! … Continue reading
A New Playground For Killarney Gardens
Killarney Gardens is a housing Cooperative in South Vancouver. Thanks to Kaboom! an organization dedicated to providing children with places to play, Killarney Gardens received a new playground today. After months of preparation, more than 100 volunteers from Kaboom!, The … Continue reading
Green Roof Raising @ Radha
Well everybody, the Radha Green Roof Raising was a big success. Almost one hundred volunteers participated in the install on friday and saturday. We received lots of media coverage, hundreds of emails quite a few requests for future projects. As … Continue reading
Green Roof Maintenance And Garden Planters @ Eclipse Awards
Yesterday saw a small, but hardy group of volunteers planting agricultural planters and maintaining a green roof at Eclipse Awards in Railtown. Toby Barrazuol, owner of Eclipse Awards and Projects In Place members oversaw the installation. The Agricultural planters, containing … Continue reading
The Ottawa Citizen, “Turf on top: Affordable eco-technology creates living roofs, lush walls…”
Review We haven’t had a lot of luck with the ELT system. Personally, we feel that the plastic trays don’t give enough opportunity for the roots to establish themselves, so you get poor plant performance. Also, its kind of funny … Continue reading
