Sentences with phrase «for urban rooftop»

As farms are introduced within city limits, prototypes for urban rooftop food production are springing up on new construction projects.

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On Monday 18 July 2016, dozens of London's small - scale food growers, producers, retailers and restaurateurs gathered on a garden rooftop in Shoreditch to make plans for the upcoming Urban Food Fortnight and taste delicious foods created in the city.

She left Waynesboro for a Newark, New Jersey, to visit an urban school with a rooftop garden and indoor growing lab.

Mexico City: 30 percent off La Palomilla, a colorful urban escape with seven rooms decorated with local art, plus a rooftop terrace for mezcal and aguas frescas in the bustling neighborhood of La Roma.

The Cosmopolitan Apartments are exciting, stylish and modern designed for the urban dweller in a recently renovated 1920s Art Deco building with rooftop terrace and simply incredible views.

Auerbach has been instrumental in choosing all but one room of the work in Tate Britain — eight paintings for each decade, not quite one a year, of subjects that have never varied: the heads and faces of the people he has known best and loved most in that time; the streets he has wandered most days, from the urban confusion of Camden Town in north London up to William Blake's Jerusalem of Primrose Hill, a mile away; and the chim - chiminey view over rooftops from his studio window.

One was that this vision of a resilient urban energy system integrating existing natural gas distribution lines could easily integrate sources of renewably generated electricity, as well — for instance, from rooftop solar panels in the boroughs where they make sense.

Tokyo, for example, has been planting trees and shrubs on the rooftops of buildings to help offset the urban heat island effect and cool the city.

LONGVIEW, WA — April 1, 2014 — As the trend towards urban agriculture has emerged over the last several years; the need for an optimized soil media for rooftop farming becomes a critical component for these systems.

The Netherlands offers inspiration for designers looking to create environments that harvest water, energy and nutrients by William McDonough Published April 23, 2014 in the Guardian Urban farms are transforming inner city spaces — rooftops, infrastructure, streetscapes, building skin — into generative ecologies that support the lives of people, and pollinators too.

(Parking lots and rooftops provide nearly unlimited opportunities for urban and suburban solar panel installation.

Several cities already promote urban agriculture in floodplains, develop rooftop gardens in dense urban settlements, include urban forestry in new housing schemes and preserve peri-urban greenbelts for local food production.

In collaboration with Movement Generation and People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Bay Localize also built a rooftop veggie garden in the heart of San Francisco and led a workshop for POWER's members, providing them with the skills they'll need to grow their own food, and showcasing the potential of urban agriculture.

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.

This thriving example of urban agriculture is one of many surprising sustainable initiatives at the Dizengoff Center shopping mall, which includes bird habitat, a tree nursery, rooftop apiary, and even a bat cave for native fruit bats to call home.

In fact, recent research indicates [pdf] that urban rooftops may not be ideal locations for turbines since wind speeds are often low.

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With the appointment of Rosie Boycott as Boris Johnson's food advisor, who also is a supporter of hundreds of new food growing spaces in London, at ground level and on rooftops, the future looks set to be an exciting one for urban food growing in the capital.

Could environmental measures help create solutions as well?The Middle Eastern environmental blog Green Prophet published its piece on «What Urban Rooftop Gardening Could Do For The Middle East» just before unrest broke out in Tunisia and subsequently spread across the region, but it takes on new significance in light of the past two months» events.

«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.»

Rooftop farms may be stealing the lime light from green roofs, but there's still a lot to be said for putting plants on rooftops to filter rainwater, regulate building temperatures, promote biodiversity and counter the urban heat island effect.

Most news headlines are focused on the class «A» / Dog Wash / Rooftop pool / urban infill structures, but there is a huge market for class «B» and workforce housing in the areas surrounding major metropolitans.

Kim went with the latter option when she decided on a year - round farm for the rooftop of the Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing development she's working on in Seattle.

Bleached - wood raised planting beds that double as seating, rattan chairs with metallic cushions, a little shade from pretty foliage... This urban rooftop haven is just calling for a relaxed daytime barbecue with your nearest and dearest.