the united bike lanes of america
Permaculture
- Observe and interact: By taking time to engage with nature we can design solutions that suit our particular situation.
- Catch and store energy: By developing systems that collect resources at peak abundance, we can use them in times of need.
- Obtain a yield: Ensure that you are getting truly useful rewards as part of the work that you are doing.
- Apply self-regulation and accept feedback: We need to discourage inappropriate activity to ensure that systems can continue to function well.
- Use and value renewable resources and services: Make the best use of nature’s abundance to reduce our consumptive behavior and dependence on non-renewable resources.
- Produce no waste: By valuing and making use of all the resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste.
- Design from patterns to details: By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.
- Integrate rather than segregate: By putting the right things in the right place, relationships develop between those things and they work together to support each other.
- Use small and slow solutions: Small and slow systems are easier to maintain than big ones, making better use of local resources and producing more sustainable outcomes.
- Use and value diversity: Diversity reduces vulnerability to a variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the environment in which it resides.
- Use edges and value the marginal: The interface between things is where the most interesting events take place. These are often the most valuable, diverse and productive elements in the system.
- Creatively use and respond to change: We can have a positive impact on inevitable change by carefully observing, and then intervening at the right time.
Atocha train station in Madrid and the other most beautiful train stations in the world
Oh I love train stations. And I have been in 2 of these; NYC & Helsinki.
Here in Baltimore, trees grow outta buildings
Seedbombing: There’s an app for that
L.A.-based seedbomb purveyor Greenaid expands its vending machine program, opens a webstore and launches an iPhone app for guerilla gardeners on-the-go.
Here in Baltimore, trees grow outta buildings
Invasión Verde, Lima, Peru.
From the Architizer blog:
“…Invasion Verde was one of five selected artistic interventions chosen out of 137 proposals for Lima’s Great Week.
…According to the World Health Organization, every person living in a city should have 8 sq meter of recreation space, and Lima only has 1.98 sq meter per capita, resulting in a shortfall of 4,800 hectares of recreational spaces. Invasion Verde is an attempt to insert extra park space into a packed city, in order to improve the quality of life for Lima’s citizens…”
The project utilizes recycled materials, natural grass and drought resistant plants.
(Source: fuckyeahpublicspace)
