Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

Guide du potager urbain Research: Building Trust international - Building Trust in academic institutions. This page is dedicated to the academic institutions that either work on Building Trust projects or share our views on design. Through working with students and teachers of design, engineering and architecture we hope to explore themes such as the duty of care, shelter provision, the rapid urbanisation of our built environments, the effects of global warming on design, the developing/ digital Worlds and many more topics that relate to design and its place shaping our collective future. If you represent a college or university and would like to discuss setting a project for your students we would love to hear from you. Please fill out our contact form or email: info@buildingtrustinternational.org Below is a growing resource of research papers that we find interesting and would like to share you. Built environment + disaster relief: Social housing and resettlement: Single Occupancy housing:

MBA Polymers | Contact Us Whether you're sourcing environmentally responsible plastics, disposing of end-of-life durable goods, or interested in learning more about how to realistically close the loop on plastics, we'd love to hear from you. Headquarters: United Kingdom: MBA Polymers UK To Sell Scrap Plastic to MBA Polymers, Inc sourcing@mbapolymers.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. To Buy Plastics from MBA Polymers, Inc sales@mbapolymers.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. Crowdfunding for 100 Urban Gardens Across America Whole Kids Foundation, PACT and Indiegogo have joined forces to create an inspiring crowdfunding initiative: building 100 urban gardens across the United States. This is the first time a non-profit, a brand and a global crowdfunding platform have partnered to help drive change in local communities around the country. Whole Foods' non-profit arm will facilitate each grant and provide online resources, while PACT, an organic apparel company supporting global causes, will provide physical perks in exchange for donations. Indiegogo will provide the platform through which donations can be made until Feb. 28. The main goal of the partnership is to increase accessibility and consumption of fresh produce in local communities through sustainable gardening. The idea isn't just to build gardens, but also to equip community members with a working knowledge of gardening in order to sustain them. "The need for support and opportunity to connect kids to the roots of food became clear to us

What do pop-up shops and homelessness have in common? What do the 'DIY urbanism' movement and homelessness have in common? Whether it's a temporary studio, a pop-up shop, a sleeping bag in a doorway or a tarpaulin under a bridge, all are informal responses to the scarcity of space for everyone's needs and ambitions. But while DIY urbanism is hailed as a creative, revitalising force, the homeless are still marginalised in many cities. A group of young fashion designers occupy a studio space while the property group who manages it seeks a corporate tenancy. Next door, a snap-happy couple set up a temporary photography gallery in a disused shopfront owned by a wealthy local family. Elsewhere in the city, a man in his thirties keeps his sleeping bag and a couple of milk crates under the steps leading up to a large empty building on a street corner. How are these two scenes related? So, whilst DIY urbanists and the primary homeless are responding to scarcity in very different orders, they share a reliance on marginal urban space.

Le Potager Urbain Le potager urbain | Remerciements | page 5 remecemets Cet ouvrage ColleCti est le ruit de la participation bénévole d’experts qui ont accepté departager leurs connaissances et de donner au suivant. Nous remercions donc chaleureusement AnneFournier, Edith Smeesters, Lili Michaud, Gaëlle Janvier, Jasmine Kabuya-Racine, Manon Lépine,Mélanie Grégoire, Ismael Hautecoeur, Michel Richard, Nicolas Cadilhac et Nicholas Chiasson. Josée et Michel Par Josée Landry et Michel Beauchamp G h y s l a i n B e r g e r o n SFZero SFZero or SF0 is a web-based community game invented in San Francisco.[1] It is a type of alternate reality game. SFZero players earn points by completing a wide variety of different tasks, often with a focus on creativity, exploration, community, or performance. Although the game was originally intended for San Francisco residents, its player base has expanded to include many other locales both in and outside of America. SFZero is the creation of Ian Kizu-Blair, Sam Lavigne and Sean Mahan of Playtime, a "nonprofit organization dedicated to producing free immersive art games that use new technologies in significant ways." Gameplay[edit] Groups[edit] In the early game, players were required to align with a group upon starting the game. Each group has its own goals, interests, and an archive of group tasks. BART Psychogeographical Association - The BART Psychogeographical Association explores the myriad transportation systems of San Francisco. Tasks[edit] 1000 Small (Heavy) Things Tipping

complément au sujet Permaculture urbaine Street Skiing—AMAZING! [Weekend Watch] Often architects, developers and city planners try to sell their redevelopment’s with glossy brochures and vibrant mock ups. However, more often than not, these place turn out to either be dead, or sterile places. The problem isn’t always a lack of uses or diversity; rather it is that these places are often planned to the last window awning or flower bed. The most vibrant cities I’ve lived in or visited share one thing in common. Part of the appeal of messy urbanism is that it leaves room for future improvements in other words, it leave creates space for people to contribute to their neighborhood. In The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs points out that the most economically vibrant cities are usually inefficient and impractical. Other ‘M’ Urbanisms Like this: Like Loading... Yuri Artibise is an experienced policy analyst, community engagement practitioner and social media specialist.

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Don’t Occupy Wall Street—Transform It It’s time for a new generation of social change leaders to move beyond occupying Wall Street to transform it. Occupy Wall Street has done a great job of shining a light of truth on the failed leadership of our greedy, crony capitalist business sector. Inadvertently, it shines an equally unflattering light on what’s missing in the leadership of our nation’s social justice sector. There’s no debate that our business culture has failed Americans. Though its members have been lampooned as left wing nuts, OWS has garnered a majority of the American public’s support. There’s no shortage of brilliant ideas to change our broken world, but there is a shortage of leadership skills to actually implement them. Polarization makes things worse. A rising new generation of social change agents will defy the labels as border-crossers, oxymorons, paradoxes, jacks-of-all-trades, and masters of none, speaking the language of the free market while giving voice to those suffering from crony capitalism.

Worgamic | planter, cuisiner, composter… en ville Understanding the World's Urban Transition Chuck Wolfe and Ana Maria Manzo join forces to offer a global perspective on the changes underway in the urban areas of the world. "Today, we are driven by a new sustainability ethic, necessarily systemic in scope. Carbon-neutrality is a commonly stated goal, and location efficiency, clean energy and the return of neighborhood are the watchwords of change. But as both of us have written in different languages, context is key, and adaptation to a multi-environmental sense of place, associated imagery and sensation is an essential element of building design, urban development and innovation going forward. Creating attractive buildings that are able to work for the environment, or crafting appropriate enabling regulations, should also be considered as part of a broader, holistic effort.

Vertical Farms - Où en sommes nous? Alors, où en sont les projets de fermes verticales?NAISSANCE DU CONCEPT On estime que dans 50 ans, la population mondiale atteindra les 8,3 milliards d'individus et qu'il n'y aura plus assez de terres cultivées ou cultivables pour nourrir cette population. Nous sommes aujourd'hui, 6,4 milliards et l'agriculture utilise 38% des terres. Dickson Despommier, professeur en sciences environnementales et microbiologie à la Columbia University de New York, a proposé le concept de fermes verticales en 1999. Vidéo de présentation du Concept par Dickson Despommier Au niveau théorique les "vertical farms" ne présentent que des avantages, leur concept étant basé sur les fondements développement durable : - Création de nouvelles surfaces agricoles, sans impact négatifs sur l'environnement - Réduction des filières de distribution et de stockage, grandes consommatrices d'énergie - Création d'emplois - Grande amélioration des rendements, nouveaux systèmes de cultures et protection contre les intempéries