#GivingTuesday – Giving Tuesday
#GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give. Help us see a world...
Urban Integrated Agriculture– Commercial Farming
Eco Factor: Sustainable housing project powered by PV modules. Magnusson Architects have proposed a new 6.5 story housing complex featuring 40 rental units for New York. The sustainable building will integrate passive solar heating with daylight design to minimize...
The future home: self-sufficient in meat, fish, vegetables and fruit
An experiment in self-sufficiency will transform a previously derelict Manchester printworks according to so-called vertical urban farming techniques Future homes and workplaces are set to be transformed into complex food production systems becoming self-sufficient...
Agro-Housing for a Sustainable Urban China
The UN estimates that 50% of the population in China are going to reside in cities by 2010. This massive urbanization can potentially fragment communities, severely deplete natural resources, lead to considerable unemployment, undermine existing traditions, and...
Urban Integrated Agriculture
WHY? Rapidly Changing Population Habitat Patterns – major shift from Rural to Urban Ever increasing energy costs – resulting in increased food transportation costs Provide some level of Food Security by being able to grow locally – average miles food travels is 1,200...
Feed Hunger Now, HIVE Orlando, and USGBC Team Up to Build a Vermiponic System at the WRCC
Since the beginning of February 2014, HIVE Orlando and Central Florida’s USGBC chapter have been working together to install raised garden beds at the Women’s Rehabilitation and Counseling Center, one of the many locations associated with the Coalition for the...