Green technologies for the street
(Re)Make it Rain: Rainwater Reclamation Designs
Big, bulky plastic rain barrels have their place, but there’s more than one way to capture and store rainwater, as these 12 innovative and versatile designs and concepts prove.
Literal Lawn Chairs: Grass Sofas Brighten up British Summer
Summer means more time spent outdoors in the sun, but the National Trust of Great Britain found that British families are spending an average of 43 hours per week inside and on the sofa. That’s a grand (or not-so-grand) total of 13 weeks per year.
Bamboo has been known to grow at rates up to 24 inches in a single day – just imagine if we could harness that growth to build cheap, easy and durable objects for our own without the material, transportation and design costs of a normal furniture piece.
DIY Plant Furniture: Green-Growing Organic Home Objects
There is a lot of discussion these days about green design and new ways to go green, be sustainable and so forth. One of the growing areas of interest is in the literal green of living walls and roofs populated by real, growing plants.
Grass as a Material? Green Design Takes to the Streets
Today is Park(ing) Day , a play on words and on cities themselves in which pedestrians take over the streets and redesign parking spaces as miniature public parks around the United States and even in other countries, but (naturally) on the West Coast in particular. These activist installations range from quaint and curious to creative and complex – some are simple sod patches with perhaps a bench and a tree while others include lawn chairs, plants and other domestic patio design elements.
(Park)ing Day: City Streets Turned into Pedestrian Parks
La dépollution des villes par des associations de plantes et micro-organismes
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Phytoremédiation
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Exemple de phytoremédiation, ici sur une ancienne plate-forme gazière de Rønnede ( Danemark ) via plusieurs espèces de saules ( Salix ). La phytoremédiation est la dépollution des sols , l' épuration des eaux usées ou l'assainissement de l'air intérieur, utilisant des plantes vasculaires , des algues (phycoremédiation) ou des champignons ( mycoremédiation ), et par extension des écosystèmes qui supportent ces végétaux.
