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A public school in New York City is doing amazing things to promote a love for gardening and local food, and is working with Columbia students to build a garden on its roof. Celebrate harvest season by helping bring local food onto kid’s lunch trays at schools across the country during Farm to School Month. Image credit: Mushroom Mountain With the Fall coming on strong, mushrooms are starting to poke their heads out of the leaf litter once more—the most visible reminder of nature’s greatest recyclers. Earlier this year I posted a video from South Carolina’s Mushroom Mountain on how to grow king stropharia mushrooms in your garden Photos: Studio North / Moskow Linn Architects From afar, it looks like a mini-sized yoga studio or sauna, but this translucent gem created by Boston-based Moskow Linn Architects and a group of five students is actually a chicken coop. Er, make that a “chicken chapel.” Made out of fiberglass panels and locally-harvested wood, this freestanding hen sanctuary was built as part of a hands-on workshop given on a 11.. Image credit: The Perennial Plate I am a committed lazivore , and a strong believer in the lost eco-art of cutting yourself some slack . So I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of hardcore green living experiments, like strict 100-mile diets or growing.. All Images Courtesy of Design With Company For your next vacation, forget about Disneyland and the amusement park, and give Farmland World a shot. The “agro-tourist” resort, where you ditch the bathing suit for overalls, is the new hot destination for families looking for some good old fashioned tractor rides, corn mazes and reflection on the relationships between humans, animals and machines, and how we produce our food. The fact that it’s only a concept vacation spot doesn’t mean the whole family can’t enjoy the thought-provoking renderings…. Philip Merrill Environmental Center, subject of a major lawsuit George Baird was the most articulate professor I ever had; he once launched into a sentence, the length of a paragraph, that was so intricately constructed, with such an extraordinary vocabulary (I remember hearing the word “historicity” for the first time) that the entire lecture hall broke into spontaneous applause at the end of it. He is no slouch at sustainable design either, and writes in Architectural Record about recent legal problems that have affected so-called sustainable buildi… The Model S electric sedan, schedule for a late 2012 release. Photo: Tesla Motors It’ll be there in late 2012, I swear! Elon Musk , the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX and the chairman of SolarCity , has made a $1 million bet with auto journalist Dan Neil (well, Neil is only betting $1,000, so it’s an asymmetric bet). The dispute is about the timing of the Model S electric seda.. |
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