It's about working with nature to create innovative and clever waterways throughout Melbourne--in our backyards and in public spaces.
such as legal agreements and a gardening checklist, to help them reclaim underutilized city spaces as food gardens. 3000acres will join the ranks of existing initiatives,
Quirky designer Jess FÃ Â gler tells Smart Planet. Then back in the office we developed the form.
and satellites to optimize crop development. They put sensors on the field that track nutrient levels and moisture levels,
In a new study led by Nadine Unger of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies,
the  school is organized around communal spaces like a multi-use commons and forum, with four houses overlooking these central spaces with views to a pond,
woods and prairie supporting 20 five-student workstations, kind of like a lab setup. Kids penned up in HGA's zoo school Other schools are based on museum planning,
This is a green space that contributes to the overall health and quality of life of the community, continues their description, bringing people together through green business and around good food.
or a moment of quiet, Brooklyn Grange offers healthy, organic food and a green space that benefits the whole community.
With limited space in the city, would urban agriculture be more of an asset or a burden?
the city has plenty of space to expand its urban farms. The report identified nearly 5,
000 acres of NYC Housing Authority green space and other underutilized spaces that could be turned into farms.
and the space required to safely ship multiple bulbs, Celery dreamed up a modular system that can accommodate just one or up to six bulbs.
Paris boasts over 1, 300 acres of green space in 480 parks and gardens of all sizes
The Archives owns 2, 000 square meters of green space, and Masson saw the chance for an interesting, if not unconventional project.
In Paris, each green space becomes something important, she said, and with the Ferme de Paris guiding the way,
including other breeds that could be put to work in Paris's other green spaces. Issues concerning safety, control and efficiency will be addressed as the Ferme de Paris observes the sheep over the next few months.
That's important because of Pepsico's largesse in the agriculture space. In the U k. alone, it's the largest purchaser of domestic potatoes and a top buyer of local oats and apples.
Photos from space show shocking income inequalitywhile pondering the striking correlation between wealth and forest cover,
Could I actually see income inequality from space? The answer? A resounding yes. The following satellite images from Google earth speak for themselves.
Push for greener, leafier spaces on Parisian roofsparis A new biodiversity initiative seeks to convert over 17 acres of Parisian rooftops to thriving gardens by 2020.
Another aspect of the study is to  work on a standard lease agreement that can be used by various city departments with vacant land to make it easier to lease those spaces for community gardens.
We gave flowers to the planet. What have been some of the biggest changes since the competition's early days?
We've also done several projects for clients in the U s. We did 14 exhibits for the conservatory at the Bellagio Hotel in Las vegas. We had clients in New york who built the One Bryant Park atrium space.
and we need peace on the planet.''When all the international teams arrive at the competition, they don't speak the same language,
Smart Planet: How many used tires have been recycled into Rubbersidewalks to date? Rubbersidewalks has diverted over a quarter million waste tires from landfill, mostly California waste tires.
Those are three of the biggest reasons why businesses aren't investing in this space. Â But there are lots of examples of major profitability in emerging markets.
At the same time, the planet produces four billion tons of agricultural waste products like peanut shells. If we could harness one billion tons of agricultural waste
but they need secure locker space. That resulted in finding an abandoned building and starting a locker  business  run by homeless people.
But with H7n9 there was a hundred within a space of a few weeks. Why is there an acceleration of cases of H7n9?
If technological innovation brought humans to a population of 7 billion can it also make the future planet livable?
and might as well get good at it. â Â Ultimately our planet will survive no matter
Today 50%of everyone on the planet are made of synthetic nitrogen. Nitrogen is the most important element in most of the proteins that make up our bodies.
Roughly half the people on the planet would not be around if Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch hadn invented a chemical way of ripping inert nitrogen from the atmosphere
It did cool the planet for a while. The problem is that the instant those particles go away you get a redoubled warming
Ocean plankton are one of the biggest CO2 sucks on the planet, and if you fertilize them there might be more blooms.
Because the planet will be fine. No matter what we do, even if we burn all the fossil fuels, the planet as a rock will survive
and so will a lot of the life on the planet, like the microbes. What won survive are many of the animals we care about,
and our civilization. And that is what we are talking about when we talk about climate change.
We are not saving the planet, we are saving ourselves. SP: What about the government agency Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E?
we would like to bring a lot of our fellow travelers on the planet along with us. It would be sad
unless they work for the planet. SP: Otherwise we might have to live in vats. DB:
Or on Mars. There are a lot of folks who view private space flight as an escape plan for humanity,
but we can set something up on Mars. â Â I don think that is a good Plan B. I think we should get this planet healthy, happy and whole
Q&a: Tiffani Williams, computer scientist, on creating an open source tree of lifethe Open Tree of Life project culls years'worth of segmented scientific research in an effort to create a current, open source version of our knowledge
and some schools don have the space and equipment to store and prepare it. And while the USDA works to make local food accessible to all schools through its system,
because they are closer to the sun. Yet are they aglow? Hargraves debunks an old guideline called Linear No Threshold (LNT) that states that the cumulative effect of repeated exposure to radiation can be devastating.
The radioactive decay of Earth's core provides much of the heat that keeps us alive on the planet.
Scientist gets climate data off NASA satellite before it diesan assistant professor at Colorado State university, Michael Lefsky, has combined data from three NASA satellites to produce a global map of the height of the world's forests.
Knowing how tall the forests are will help scientists figure out how much carbon the trees can capture
The three satellites are ICESAT Terra and Aqua. Lefsky appears to have caught ICESAT before the satellite's last laser failed in February
and it was taken out of commission. On July 14, NASA flight controllers finished firing ICESAT's thrusters to lower its orbit
About 90 percent of the satellite is expected to burn up in the atmosphere--NASA claims there's little harm from the rest,
although the U s. Space Surveillance Network is supposed to be watching for debris. A second generation ICESAT won't be launched before 2015.
Scotts Miracle-Gro, U s. mayors partner for more urban green spacegreen spaces have enormous benefits for cities:
Scotts Miracle-Gro and the U s. Conference of Mayors have partnered to bring more green spaces to cities to help them reap these benefits.
Scotts Miracle-Gro will award grants to cities to help them develop public gardens and green space,
For more than a decade, we have partnered with national organizations to help increase community access to gardens and green spaces.
We look forward to now joining with the USCM to develop model green space initiatives and gardens that bring communities together.
and kid space full of thornless mini edibles adjacent to community gardening plots, native plant areas, a big timber-frame gazebo and gathering space with people barbecuing,
Cows get so routinely sick that they undermine the planet's tenuous food supply and cost the global economy an estimated $60 billion.
Their technological path to food independence consists of a raised bed garden that contains 30 square feet of growing space with light heat
this approach to raising food in small spaces could catch on. Sensors are used widely to monitor the conditions within high-value
Not enough  planning and insight into efficient use of space and resources, he argues.
Mysterious site spotted from space Mysterious geological site spotted from space Mysterious â Ëoenazca Lines â â¢ruins discovered in Saudi desert Did a robot discover Jesus â â¢tomb
"If you can put a man on the moon, "Sandoval said, "you can figure out how to pick fruit with a machine
Vertical farming allows the company to cover nearly 3. 5 acres of growing space. Like other indoor urban farms
or people who are trapped in small spaces. They might even help pollinate plants in places where natural bee populations have fallen due to the still-mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder.
the shortage of enough garden space or no garden space at all is the biggest hindrance.
allotments and other green spaces, creating opportunities for local communities to grow. We work with these community groups to help empower local people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to build better communities, often in deprived areas,
allotment gardens and just about any other piece of community-managed green space. We also offer our services to any other organisation running a community farm or garden (for example local authorities, schools
allotments and other green spaces, creating opportunities for local communities to grow. We work with these community groups to help empower local people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to build better communities, often in deprived areas,
allotment gardens and just about any other piece of community-managed green space. We also offer our services to any other organisation running a community farm or garden (for example local authorities, schools, trusts,
The candy maker Mars is expected to announce on Wednesday that a project it financed has completed essentially the raw sequence of the genome of the cacao tree,
and Pennsylvania State university that is backed in part by a competitor of Mars, Hershey This group says it has completed also the sequence,
the consumers and Mars Inc.,Howard-Yana Shapiro, the head of plant research at Mars, said in an interview.
Mars the maker of Snickers, M&m S, Milky way and other confections, announced two years ago that it would spend $10 million over five years to sequence
while Mars would gain from larger supplies and potentially lower prices for cocoa, the company would have no special advantage over other companies. oewe have a sustainable supply of cocoa,
but that Mars and the Agriculture department oedecided to go it alone, so we decided to keep doing
said the Mars project started before the other one. He said his group wasn t trying to upstage the other consortium paper,
The Mars group used so-called second generation sequencers made by Illumina and 454, a division of Roche.
Having selected two of the biggest stars in the traditional herbal medicines of China and India
It is a long way from teleporting a few individual atoms to sending people from the Enterprise to a planet surface.
They would be robotic in that they would be programmed to carry out complex and specific functions in three-dimensional space.
The birds get twice as much space as in the old battery cages. And the enriched cages have perches,
So reclaimed space in an urban area or non-arable land where food can be grown is smart business.
and be stacked for in-town use think unused land in urban spaces or non-arable land in the middle East or Africa or even a rainforest after deforestation.
and multinational corporations very rich even as they devastate the poor and put the rest of the planet at severe environmental and economic risk.
In their 1952 science fiction novel The Space Merchants, Frederick Pohl and C M Kornbluth described a future farm where Carrel's chicken heart is grown into a lump of flesh weighing hundreds of tons
where more than 300 essential grocery items are available in just 160 square feet of space.
Every inch of the space is built for agriculture, be it a fish tank of tilapia that fertilizes the lettuce,
And young corporate stars seeking to cash in for billions by selling shares to the public are consumer services the online game company Zynga last week,
At the Nest offices in Palo alto, Calif.,there is a lot of talk of helping the planet, as well as the thrill of creating cool technology.
Smarter Planet was the label the company tacked on to the initiative, and industry analysts wondered
"If we didn't have Jules Verne speculating about going to the Moon, we wouldn't have Nasa engineers getting us there.
and met space utilization trends of the future. The winners were: Hickok Cole Architects; Gensler;
Gensler connects the dots between increased worker mobility, weak demand for backfilling vacant space and a surplus of obsolete buildings.
Large-scale hacks can create spaces beyond standard amenities like cafes and fitness centers to oeattractors-or unique building amenities-like fabrication labs,
if their lease agreements give them the freedom to transform their spaces in ways that better meet their needs.
and institutions encourage employees to supplement their office space with work locations not paid for by the company-home offices, neighborhood coffee shops and communal spaces, such as parks and museums in the public domain of the city.
First, it offers flexible open space that is fast and inexpensive to build, to accommodate either individual co-workers
and higher lease rates by oecurating the office space to ensure the right creative mix of users.
These spaces could be rented to office tenants as well as to community groups on weekends. Rounding out the (b) HIVE concept is the retail/third space
on the ground floor, with a diverse mix of uses such as restaurants, studios, galleries, gyms, theatres, supermarkets, places of worship, medical facilities and community spaces,
as well as innovative combinations of living and working spaces. To maximize its oecarrying capacity, Miller Hull office building of the future will be:¢
¢Located on an underutilized site on the edge of the downtown core;¢¢Accessible by foot, bicycle or mass transit;¢
and¢A nexus for the neighborhood with activated retail and green space. Pickard Chilton The office building of the future envisioned by Pickard Chilton will embody three distinct principles centered around human qualities, business objectives and sustainability.
First, the workplace will be healthful and conducive to the productivity and well-being of employees, with elements such as abundant natural light, access to fresh air, customizable work areas and greater collaborative spaces.
Innovative design and construction, efficient floorplates and multipurpose spaces will support the owner business objectives.
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