July 13th, 2012
Via Cleantechnica, an interesting article on green roofs: Adding a green roof to a building offers several benefits, including reducing harmful stormwater runoff, lessening the “heat island” effect, conserving energy and noise, containing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and extending roof life. Green roofs have been shown to increase people’s productivity and offer a new […]
Read more »Rooftop Gardens: BrightFarms’ Hydroponic Gardens Let Grocers Sell Fresh Produce Grown On Their Roofs
July 13th, 2012
Via Fast Company, an article on BrightFarms: Nobody ever complains about vegetables being too fresh. Not shoppers, who increasingly seek out high-quality, locally sourced produce, and certainly not grocers, for whom freshness means longer shelf life and less waste. What both cohorts do grouse about is the cost and difficulty of getting the freshest possible […]
Read more »July 10th, 2012
Via Greentech Media, a report on solar water heating and the potential for it to follow the rapid growth of solar power via third party finance schemes: Solar water heating (SWH) specialist Skyline Innovations just picked up a million dollars in venture capital, $30 million in backing from the investment arm of a natural gas […]
Read more »Office Buildings Add Cash Crops To Their Balance Sheet
July 10th, 2012
Courtesy of Fast Company, an interesting article on Montreal-based rooftop farm Lufa’s efforts to expand into America and find a way to scale urban farming on large corporate office buildings: If you can do it in Montreal, you can do it anywhere. That’s the theory of Lufa Farms, which is growing tender sheaves of lettuce […]
Read more »June 29th, 2012
Via SmartPlanet, an article on commercial scale rooftop production: Lufa Farms has broken even on its operations in chilly Montreal, over 50 degrees of latitude north of the Equator. The next time you’re in Montreal or New York, the lettuce in your Caesar salad might come from the building across the way. Demand for locally […]
Read more »New York City Wants Massive Rooftop Farm to Top Bronx Distribution Center
June 17th, 2012
Via A/N blog, a report on a plan to establish a massive rooftop farm in New York City: One of the biggest rooftop farms in the world may land in the Bronx. (Montage by AN) The New York City Economic Development Corporation sent out an RFP for a forward thinking urban farmer to run a […]
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