Gro-Wall® Vertical Garden System | Green Walls | Living Walls | greenwalls | vertical gardens | vertical garden | modular | Jardín Vertical | Jardines Verticales | Pared Verde | Paredes Verdes | Superficie Vegetada | Superficies Vegetadas | Muralla Verde. The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond | www.verticalfarm.com. A Milan Skyscraper With A Forest Inside It. We may need to start building our parks in the sky. In the 1850s, New York City needed a place to escape from its own urban crush. It was easy enough to evict more than a thousand poor tenement dwellers and re-landscape the heart of Manhattan, creating what we know as Central Park.
Today, such a project would prove far more difficult, if not impossible, in most of the world’s major cities. Vertical greenspace may be one answer to that problem. The Bosco Verticale towers taking shape in the northern Italian city of Milan, although private residential towers, show the technology is more than possible. Designed explicitly to house at least as many trees as people, the buildings make room for plenty of apartments (ranging between $870,000 and $2.6 million for the penthouse) as well as 730 trees, 5,000 shrubs and 11,000 ground plants, according to the U.K.' The vertical forest spreads out one hectare of woodland across 27 floors. This doesn’t make them particularly expensive. Sustainable Domes - Geodesic Dome - Aquaponics Domes :: Home. The Fact That Changed Everything: Will Allen and Growing Power Vertical Farm | Food on GOOD.
This content is brought to you by GOOD, with support from IBM. Click here to read more stories from The Fact That Changed Everything series and here to read about other Figures of Progress. In 1993, when Will Allen bought the three-acre plot of land in Milwaukee that would later become Growing Power, he didn’t know that he would be starting a food movement. In fact, his intentions were more for-profit than nonprofit. At the time, he was a successful salesman at Proctor & Gamble and was also operating a 100-acre farm in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, selling his produce to grocery stores and farmers markets. The son of a sharecropper, Allen was itching to farm full-time and saw the new plot as a likely business opportunity.
“There were no grocery stores in the area at that time, and as a business person, I thought, ‘Location, location, location,’” recalls Allen. The plot, the last remaining farm and greenhouse in the city, was located in a “food desert” half a mile from a large housing project.