--which they want to remake into a mix of residential and commercial spaces--around basic services,
Public spaces are included for recreation. As with the other projects on view, office spaces are mixed in to encourage start-ups and small businesses to flourish.
Studio Gang's proposal is based also around the idea of the limited equity cooperative (LEC) model of ownership,
which protects forests and farmland and other outdoor spaces. WORKAC's design shifts the existing proportion of built environment
And again, the designers propose a mix of live-work spaces. Zago Architecture's Property with Properties design for Rialto also echoes the other designers'strategies.
and then paraded out on stones that heat up in the sun. Å I treat them like my children,
a former electronics engineer with IBM and Sun who got the idea for a water-monitoring system
That arguably may put us in the lead in the space. Smartplanet: And the hurdles? How will you meet your goals?
To be successful in this space, there's no on-the-job learning. You can't afford to make one mistake.
Mars, IBM, USDA publish cacao genomemars, the maker of M&ms, IBM and the U s. Department of agriculture said Wednesday that they are making the cacao genome sequence publicly available.
Mars has a vested interest in the cacao genome given that it needs it for chocolate.
Mars adds that the findings won't benefit the bottom line initially, but will allay supply worries in the future.
In a statement, Mars said:(The project) marks a significant scientific milestone that is already starting to benefit millions of farmers,
Mars provided most of the funding and IBM supplied the computing power with its Blue Gene supercomputer.
but there's plenty of space for rooftop greenhouses. Lufa Farms is on the verge of an urban greenhouse-building spree.
The planet is facing a very serious environmental challenge with respect to food and agriculture and it is clear that we won t solve them without engaging in action with respect to the food system.
Innovations that Nourish the Planet. Â You have to pay for the full report, but like the United nations analysis, it calls for a focus on local and indigenous vegetables as a means of curbing food shortages
Said Danielle Nierenberg, co-director of Worldwatch s Nourishing the Planet project: The solutions to the price crisis won t necessarily come from producing more food,
and allow space between larger pines. With the Timberguide software, which runs on a tablet computer mounted inside a wood harvester,
Cultivating cucumbers where the sun don't shinethere s an old adage in the retail industry:
because every tech company contributes to the carbon footprint of the planet not just through its own business operations
taking up 25 percent of the space. The 25 percent is from an EPA study, and that s by volume.
You can think of it as being biocompatible with our planet. But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road,
according to a report in the Kansas city Star. It goes without saying that side-curtain air bags have been shown to dramatically reduce highway deaths.
The Star's investigation found that hundreds of Impalas already sold had been advertised incorrectly online as having the safety feature.
the Star reports Enterprise as stating. Enterprise determined that 745 Impalas were marked incorrectly and that it would send letters to all 745 buyers notifying them of the problem.
The measures have been a major setback to seed giants like Monsanto who argue that GMOS--like those that produce crops resistant to disease--are feed necessary to a growing planet and pose no harm to humans or the environment.
In the dim speakeasy style space, a barback slices limes and a waiter wipes down glasses.
I've been in the space my whole career, about 25 years. I was first a chemical engineer for Nalco Chemical.
There's a lot of interesting work going on right now in the ag space--part of it is the shift to low-flow
Some of the sites had packed densely plants, with 1, 000 specimens in a 50-meter space.
Using a new platform, its high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine, the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
The new design wasn't massively expensive (at least as much as it could have been) due to a seemingly intelligent use of the existing space and materials.
the space is reclaimed full of  or recycled materials to great effect, in compliance with Google's famed Red List that focuses on removing toxic ingredients of materials.
and if a lucky allotment-tender doesn't take proper care of their space, a wait-lister gets a chance at the plot.
The Secret Gardens are private booths on a balcony (the designers say it's sun-trapped,
hosing down outside spaces, maintaining lush gardens, and so on. Indeed, energy in general is too cheap in Abu dhabi at about $1. 80 for a gallon of gasoline
So while it would take up space in an already dense urban area it would still be an active place.
While it would use space efficiently, it would also be a way to reduce energy use for transporting the fruits long distances from the tropics to cities with cooler climates.
This has helped us win a lot of space in big-box stores. We've upped sales. We've won clients.
The state of food in 2012 China mulls vegetables on Mars $282 million of turkey trashed during U s. Thanksgiving Your next refrigerator could be a magnet Fenugreen's Freshpaper lets produce keep for longer
and often offering activities â has gained widespread attention as a symbol of the city s lack of open, urban space and as a response to the strong desire for healthier lifestyles.
or the first food eaten in space, it s that the Internet's not inherently a place for lies any more than a bottle cap is a place for truth.
including Constellation Gallery, which is the business I run. It s an artists collective, and we share the responsibly
Kansas city-owned farm turns human waste into revenue Kansas city Star h/t Grist Photo: Flickr/pasa47
a talk with NASA's space food managerwhile it's not exactly five-star cuisine,
astronauts survive on more than the freeze-dried space food found in museum gift shops. To get a look inside NASA's kitchen,
when producing food for space? All of our food has to be shelf stable, meaning is has to be safe to eat
Hopefully by the time we're ready for Mars mission, those kinds of technologies will be very common.
whether it's Mars or somewhere else, we have the advantage of some partial gravity.
How else are you preparing for the possibility of a Mars mission? We've worked for several years trying to find a high-barrier packaging material that does not contain foil.
I'm developing food for Mars. It makes the job very special. Image, top: As seen in artist's rendering,
astronauts exploring Mars will build hydroponic growth labs where vegetables can be grown. These crops will provide the crew with added nutrition and variety./
With 1. 2 billion methane-burping animals on the planet today, the digestive systems of livestock are worthy of examination.
With one truck, you can carry six or seven of these in the space of one container,
Nobody knows exactly how many people around the planet think of bugs as lunch. Some estimates say that 70 percent of the world's cultures have a tradition of eating insects
But bugs should not be considered the sole solution to the problem of feeding a growing planet.
and what s just taking up valuable space at taxpayers expense it has been reported that keeping Ho Tung Gardens could cost taxpayers $380 million.
In Korea, old brews get new lifeseoul--As the sun sets over Seoul, a low-lit basement bar in a back street in the traditional district of Anguk fills up with a cool, 20-to 30-something clientele.
, ironwork sculptors--Greg, Tianna and Camille Leavitt--that is featured throughout the space. Later in the week, Handmade Gardens will earn the coveted Best in Show award for the highest-scoring major landscape exhibit.
This year, its presence sprawled across several booth spaces. General manager Darren Rufe notes that the mindset of attendees has changed significantly in the past three years.
Their cattle have open spaces to graze. We won't give up our jungle, she said. Everything will be destroyed.
The beach is disappearing so fishermen have no space to put their boats or to spread their nets,
NASA has culled available data from its network of satellites to generate a map that depicts the amount
This was achieved using NASA imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, the Quikscat scatterometer satellite and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
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but he plans on getting more from the strong and steady Italian sun namely, electric and heat power.
and tilt to catch sun rays shining down from different points in the sky. At 500 times the intensity, the sunlight strikes the system's non-silicon solar cells to generate electricity.
The bottles are shifted around the shelf in the same way the move in space, bumping into each other
 With the sheer volume of food packaging on the planet plus the stringent safety and health regulations surrounding edible products, it seems only natural that high-tech packaging design innovations would begin with food.
Today s generation will do more to save the planet than any other generation. The biggest problem is one word no one wants to talk about, for religious regions or political reasons:
and have installed over 300 farms throughout Los angeles. Could this model spark a shift in how we think about farming practices and the use of urban space?
we would need two planet Earths to feed us, we ve only got one and she is dying.
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.
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"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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