Jan 6, 2013

Urban development. Urban vegetable gardens and Windowfarms.

Tomatoes, lettuces and fresh cucumbers are found in the middle of the cities concrete. Urban vegetable gardens are a healthy eating solution and a wonderful spare time activity. Conditions apply? Farm for free in community and in a 100% ecological way.
 
Sevilla is one of the first cities in Spain where we can find some big and beautiful vegetable gardens. The age of this kind makes them unique, and it makes society to have a special interest in them. There are initiatives all over the country with wonderful solutions for community gardens such as in Sevilla, Madrid, Valladolidad, Barcelona…

SEE THIS GARDENS HERE: Huertos urbanos_Diseño Social.

www.rndiy.org/

Another wonderful green initiative which we can already find all over the world are Windowfarms. I+D yourself and at home. A great way to have your own vegetable or flower garden in spite of living in a small place.

 
See a video about it HERE: R&DIY video

Visit the website HERE: R&DIY Site


Dec 24, 2012


Happy Christmas 

Best present is friendship. Happy Christmas everyone.

Joyeux Noël
Frohe Weihnachte
 Feliz Navidad

Dec 14, 2012

Biologic concrete - New ideas for vegetable and live facades!

University of Cataluña has developed a new material which is called biologic Concrete. They have reserched and found out this new system for future buildings which will send out less CO2 emitions than tradional concrete. Thanks to fungus, mosses and other microorganism living and growing in the material, it presents new advantages for the building of our green and lovely future cities! 

You can read more about this piece of news here:  Click here.

Nov 7, 2012

City meets country !

How great is a city where the project of an extension area is described with a heading like this? The city of Mälmo is! Hyllie is a place where the spaces among the buildings, the public space and the green parks are designed for citiziens. In Hyllie, the public transport is the key to succesfully resolve all the city comunications. Trains and buses connect different parts of the city and the different cities around. To sum up, this is a city for people.
 
www.malmo.se/hyllievang


www.malmo.se/hyllievang


Nov 5, 2012

Eco cities - are they what we think they are?

Do we need a label to make sure ours cities may repect the land where they are?

I don't think so...  but well, sometimes they get it !