Category Archives: Interesting Eco-considerations

Logroño Montecorvo Eco City by MVRDV and GRAS

November 8, 2008 – 2:58 pm

Dutch architects MVRDV and Spanish architects GRAS have won a competition to design a new carbon-neutral city in La Rioja, Spain.
Regardless of our topic this is a good website.

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Solar Info for Farmyard

October 25, 2008 – 12:47 pm

I found a great website  (www.gaisma.com) it gives sun direction, number of daylight hours, etc. I find it easier to understand then other azimuths I have used.
I’ll attach the charts that are relevant to us, and look for the print out on the studio wall.

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Urban Agriculture in Southeast False Creek

October 21, 2008 – 11:04 pm

The development of Southeast False Creek (sefc) is and has been a huge undertaking by the city - a lot of their preliminary research could be useful, in particular these two articles investigate how to integrate urban agriculture into the sefc site. I haven’t read the entire documents, the first is called urban agriculture strategy [...]

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Vertical Farm in Surrey?!?

October 9, 2008 – 3:21 pm

It will be interesting to see if this goes ahead.
Check it out here and here.

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Edible Landscapes

October 5, 2008 – 9:06 pm

Slow Food Nation’s victory garden in front of San Francisco City Hall. (Courtesy of Scott Chernis/Scott Chernis Photography)
This is a great post from Allison Arieff’s NYTimes blog on design.
an excerpt:
“Edible landscape” seems to be going head to head with “staycation” as the most popular catch phrase of Summer 2008. Lawns may not be disappearing before [...]

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A Canadian Composting Toilet

October 5, 2008 – 7:20 pm

Sun-Mar is a Canadian Company that makes a variety of Composting Toilets.
Go HERE> for the link to their website.

By katy | Also posted in Energy System, Of Interest | Comments (0)

Pond Scum Power!

October 4, 2008 – 12:58 pm

I was listening to the Quirks and Quarks podcast on CBC today, there is a great section on using algae as a bio-fule if you want to check it out go HERE> Go to the October 4th link.
Also of interest is this article that explains some of the science and gives great references for further [...]

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Great Urban Agriculture Video

October 3, 2008 – 1:56 pm

Check this out.
This is also a good article on urban agriculture in Cuba.

By lauren | Also posted in Of Interest | Comments (0)

Great info/article resource

October 2, 2008 – 7:50 am

Here is a great website. It has links to tons of articles about food production, waste treatment, soil erosion, and other environmental concerns.  The articles are also from reliable resources such as the NY Times and Washington Post and Scientific America.

By lauren | Also posted in Energy System | Comments (0)

Cow Power

September 27, 2008 – 8:22 am

The Green Mountain Dairy farm in Sheldon, Vt., like all dairy farms, is in the business of producing milk. But the farm is also part of a growing alternative energy program that converts the methane gas from cow manure into electricity.

In the barn, a mechanical scraper sweeps the cows’ waste into a large drain.

Waste is [...]

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