GET DIRTY in hands - on workshops
about urban rooftop farming, soil and green walls, facilitated by Ben Flanner of Brooklyn Grange, Susan Antler of Compost Canada, and Melissa Daniels of Plant Connection.
Not exact matches
The sites are diverse, idiosyncratic, even fantastical, including everything from scaffolding to
rooftops, intending to encourage passers - by to think
about urban agriculture and under - utilized public spaces.
For information
about Sustain's report on the visit, click Edible Cities, It looks at examples of
urban agriculture projects in cities including New York, Milwaukee and Chicago (where green
rooftops have become a common feature of the landscape, to reduce energy bills and cool the city - see Chicago City Hall below), and identifies a series of opportunities that other cities could be adopting.
It turns out that such conditions appear in cities as well as deserts, which is why researchers are thinking
about how to change the face of
urban areas... or at least the
rooftops.
«I Just Want To Feed My Family» Speaking
about urban gardening in the region, Neveen Metwally, a researcher at the Central Laboratory for Agriculture Climate in Cairo, emphasized the importance of focusing on the needs of regular people:» «I can say to someone, «A
rooftop garden will help the environment,» and they'll say, «No, thank you — I just want to feed my family.»
In another published paper 28 years later, Professor Landsburg again reiterated his concern
about rooftop exposures with respect to the
urban warming issue: «They [
rooftop stations] are certainly of little value in a full assessment of the climatic changes brought
about by urbanization.»