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Urban Agriculture
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Profiles
Through Creative Placemaking, Carbon Office Nurtures Community in Jackson, Mississippi
After stints in the local government, Salam Rida and Travis Crabtree are striking out on their own to help ameliorate the city’s long-standing problems.
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Projects
Kuehn Malvezzi’s Employment Office Kills Three Birds with One (Stone) Building
In Oberhausen, Germany, a new government center is topped by a greenhouse and thoughtfully extends public space.
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Profiles
New Talent 2018: Architect Thomas Kosbau Is Helping Create the Next Generation of Green Urban Tech
Just as he’s wrapped his largest and greenest project to date, Thomas Kosbau’s brand of idealistic architecture is growing up.
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Projects
GrowNYC’s New Center Brings Sustainability to the Heart of NYC
Farmhouse, a new profit-generating event space designed by Oregon-born environmental architect Thomas Kosbau, highlights the mainstreaming of sustainability.
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Viewpoints
UN Celebrates Small-Scale Produce Cultivation with New Food Garden
Situated behind the Secretariat Building, the newly opened UN Food Gardens will produce herbs, vegetables, and fruits, all to demonstrate the importance of self-sufficiency.
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Projects
Uppsala Builds Floating Pocket Park to Promote Urban Farming
The Swedish city debuted its buoyant pocket park last summer as a way to promote urban farming.
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Viewpoints
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
A project by Fritz Haeg — now in an expanded second edition
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Projects
The Edible Schoolyard, Where Students Farm, Cook, And Learn
The Edible Schoolyard project brings farming and cooking into the classroom.
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Projects
Phil Jones: The Activist-Chef Bringing Urban Farming to Detroit
This community leader is helping to forge a healthy connection between urban farming and new employment opportunities for Detroit’s youth.
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Projects
Coca-Cola’s Green Initiative Transforms an Unused Helipad in Mexico
An unused helipad is the landing spot for Coca-Cola’s new green initiative in Mexico.
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Projects
Q&A: Susan Chin on Urban Farms
In New York City, where more than 8 million of us live in very close proximity to hundreds of our immediate neighbors, many of us are also near some form of urban agriculture. Today there are ten times more urban farms i