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Is That a Cornstalk on Your Roof?
Mike Yohay, the founder and CEO of Cityscape Farms, is on top of the world. Or rather, his business is. This fall, he’ll begin realizing his...
Read & DiscussChanging Diapers, Changing the World
Here in the United States, we generate 18 billion pounds of dirty diaper waste per week, and each filthy diaper takes up to 500 years to...
Read & DiscussHow to Start a Crop Mob
There’s a lot up for debate in the realm of agriculture these days, but there’s one thing no one can dispute: Farming is hard, often lonely work....
Read & DiscussNine Green Home Projects You Can Do Today
Between the economic meltdown and the push for green buildings, saving energy, water and money in your home is more popular than ever....
Read & DiscussLOOK: Shopping Cart Becomes Housing Start
Los Angeles has the largest homeless population in the country. In a city where people spend so much time in their cars, it’s a population that...
Read & DiscussFoodstamps and Farmers' Markets Project Winner Announced
For our Foodstamps and Farmers' Markets Project, we asked you to help us figure out how to make it easier for people on government assistance to...
Read & DiscussAgriculture is the New Golf: Rethinking Suburban Communities
There is new movement to plan suburban communities around farms instead of golf courses. Can it catch on? It has often been observed that...
Read & DiscussFarming the Front Lawn
Spending an extended period of time around dirt, explains artist/activist/architect Fritz Haeg, is a deviant act. “In our society we are not...
Read & DiscussGrowing Power
Everybody seems to be talking about urban farming these days, from Michelle Obama to my kale-growing neighbors to New Urbanist developer Andres...
Read & DiscussA Flatpack Housing Concept for Haiti
Architect Andres Duany, best known for work designing New Urbanist communities (walkable, small-scaled, mixed-use) has shifted gears a bit to...
Read & DiscussGrowing an Urban Farm
Little City Gardens is a blossoming urban farming business located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Farmers Brooke Budner and Caitlyn...
Read & DiscussSustainable Scout Shelter
Shipping containers continue to capture the imagination of designers: now they may just inspire Boy Scouts. The architects at Gensler have just...
Read & DiscussThe iPad Solves the E-reader's Design Problems
The iPad might not save newspapers, but it is going to save the e-reader. Years ago, I took a tour of a tech company's "house of the future"...
Read & DiscussBring the Land to the People
The complete antithesis of the rural idyll that many might associate with farming, the 4-1/2 acre Alemany Farm is located just off the decidedly...
Read & DiscussHeroism and Home Economics
Getting access to fresh, healthy food is important but so is knowing what to do with it. When confronted with a butternut squash or bunch of kale,...
Read & DiscussTesting Tesla
After months and months of hearing about six figures, sexy curves, and four seconds from zero to sixty, isn't time to find out how the Tesla...
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