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Urban Gardening 101: Everything You Need to Know

Urban Gardening 101: Everything You Need to Know

Urban gardening refers to growing food in a heavily populated place like a town or a city. It doesn’t require a huge amount of land or space, just some determination and creativity. Urban gardens come in all shapes and sizes — from vertical green walls to gardens cultivated exclusively in pots.

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    Mushrooms: 4 Uses That Benefit the Environment

    Mushrooms: 4 Uses That Benefit the Environment

    By Stuart Braun Mycelium, the silky thread that binds fungus, is being adapted to create everything from shoes to coffins to packaging and robust building materials. Best of all, it literally feeds on trash and agricultural byproducts, detoxifing them along the way. The biodegradable material that is also grown vertically to save space and uses […]

    8 Cities Rewilding Their Urban Spaces

    8 Cities Rewilding Their Urban Spaces

    In the midst of a massive, global loss of nature, cities around the world are finding ways to protect and expand open spaces and “rewild” their communities. Between 2001 and 2017, the United States alone lost 24 million acres of natural area – or the equivalent of nine Grand Canyon national parks – largely due […]

    The Maldives Is Building a Floating City

    The Maldives Is Building a Floating City

    By Natalie Marchant The waterfront residences will float on a flexible grid across a 200-hectare lagoon. Such innovative developments could prove vital in helping atoll nations, such as the Maldives, fight the impact of climate change. Dutch company is also testing the technology in the Netherlands. The atoll nation of Maldives is creating an innovative […]

    This Start-Up Is Recycling Abandoned Wooden Homes in Baltimore

    This Start-Up Is Recycling Abandoned Wooden Homes in Baltimore

    By Natalie Marchant Wood accounts for 10% of yearly waste material in the US. The Baltimore Wood Project salvages wood from buildings to repurpose and resell locally to create a circular economy. The initiative also has social benefits, by creating job opportunities in a post-industrial city that has an 8.5% unemployment rate. An initiative in […]