IGrow PreOwned 3/7/19 IGrow PreOwned 3/7/19

With Farms Atop Malls, Singapore Gets Serious About Food Security

The farm's small size belies its big ambition: to help improve the city's food security.

IGrow PreOwned 3/4/19 IGrow PreOwned 3/4/19

Green Roof Ecology Students Design Projects For NYC Urban Rooftops

The fall 2018 Green Roof class projects were especially wide ranging and ambitious-and included two different green wall design proposals, a soil stormwater absorption experiment, a printed guide to common plants found on New York City green roofs, climate data analysis of microsensors installed on green roofs at both Brooklyn Grange and The New School, and a go-to all-purpose website about green roofs in the city.

IGrow PreOwned 2/27/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/27/19

How Convention Centers Around The World Are Getting Greener

Implementing sustainable practices isn’t just good for the environment, it’s also good for business, as many convention centers have discovered.

IGrow PreOwned 2/25/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/25/19

Agri-Tech Entrepreneurs Eye The Vertical Landscape For New Growth

Lufa Farms is part of a growing number of agricultural technology entrepreneurs who are finding innovative ways to combine soilless processes such as hydroponics, aquaponics and/or aeroponics with advanced growing technologies to create commercial farming operations in urban markets

IGrow PreOwned 2/23/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/23/19

Green Roofs Benefit People, Environment

A team at the University of the District of Columbia in the nation’s capital has created a garden on the top of one school building. The garden holds many kinds of plants to help absorb rainwater… and grow food at the same time.

IGrow PreOwned 2/19/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/19/19

On Rooftops And In Tunnels, City Farms Lead Food Revolution

There are already plenty of urban farming projects around the world, particularly in the US, Japan and the Netherlands, ranging from aquaponics – urban fish and plant farms – to vertical farming, where plants are grown in stacked trays, a method Growing Underground also uses.

IGrow PreOwned 2/13/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/13/19

Green Roofs Absorb Rainwater, Grow Food

In an urban environment, you don’t have that many spaces to choose from, and so rooftops are just unutilized space, said Caitlin Arlotta, a graduate student in the schools Urban Agriculture program. So it’s a really good way to not have to restructure your city necessarily and be able to incorporate green roofs.

IGrow PreOwned 2/12/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/12/19

Urban Agriculture Gives Paris Space To Breathe

In the last few decades, manmade surfaces have taken over green space, leading to urban heat islands and more pollution in the air. It’s left Paris, like many other big cities, with higher urban temperatures and a greater risk of flooding as rain can no longer be absorbed into the ground

IGrow PreOwned 2/10/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/10/19

This Sustainable Apartment Complex of The Future Has Farms, Community Space, And Bike Parking Galore

In a new apartment complex that will soon rise in the Dutch city of Utrecht, instead of deliveries from an online grocer, you can get boxes of vegetables grown in an intensive greenhouse on the roof or from a smaller unit built into the facade on your own floor.

IGrow PreOwned 2/6/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/6/19

VIDEO: EPIC Urban Farming On Top of a Whole Foods | Gotham Greens Tour 🏙️🌿

Gotham Greens, which is just about the best name for a hydroponic greenhouse you'll ever hear

IGrow PreOwned 2/1/19 IGrow PreOwned 2/1/19

Westfield Creates Urban Farm On Top Of French Shopping Mall

The 270 square metre farm is located on the roof of the So Oeust shopping centre. It produces vegetables and plants through vertical agriculture – free from herbicide, pesticide or fertiliser.

IGrow PreOwned 1/21/19 IGrow PreOwned 1/21/19

NKDA Mulls Panel to Boost Urban Farming

The matter has been discussed in the board of NKDA and a decision in the matter will be soon taken.

IGrow PreOwned 1/17/19 IGrow PreOwned 1/17/19

Denver, Colorado: A Look Inside Rino's Rooftop Urban Farm

“There’s a real demand for produce that’s safe, nutritionally dense, that’s got good flavor, that doesn’t have 1,500 food miles on it,”

IGrow PreOwned 1/6/19 IGrow PreOwned 1/6/19

Playing "Happy Families" To Understand Urban Agriculture In France

We hear a lot about urban agriculture, but what is it exactly? How is it different from traditional agriculture? What is the difference between rural farms and urban farms?

IGrow PreOwned 12/10/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/10/18

France Agriculture: Here Rooftop Farms Give You Vodka And The Fish Grow Plants

“In 2013, we worked together to design and think about how it would work because it was the first time in France that there was a commercial rooftop farm,” Marie says.

IGrow PreOwned 11/30/18 IGrow PreOwned 11/30/18

New Seven Storey Sustainable Residential Project Approved For Brunswick

Sustainable features include a solar PV system for power generation, rainwater harvesting, rooftop composting, vegetable gardens, electric vehicle charging stations and bicycle amenities.