Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Check out the SkyFarm!

Here is a fascinating article about the SkyFarm, a plan for a building that would be essentially a vertical farm. The details might need tweaking, but the concept is sound. This has the added advantage of creating some new green-collar jobs too.
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seticat

seticat

November 30 2008, 03:55:42 UTC 12 years ago

Good idea. One of the local 'big businesses' basically roofed their corporate office building in green. Weyerhaeuser is one of the world's largest pulp and paper companies, and the world's largest private owner of softwood timberland - their main office is just up the freeway from here - in Federal Way, WA.




The plants you can see aren't foodstuffs, but they certainly could be. It could be considered a good start.
ysabetwordsmith

Wow!

ysabetwordsmith

November 30 2008, 04:10:08 UTC 12 years ago

That's really cool.

Green roofs and rooftop gardens can help reduce heat and pollution in cities, give people access to bit of nature, and supplement the food supply.

Green Roof Resources:
http://www.greenroofs.com/

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities:
http://www.greenroofs.org/

Rooftop Gardens:
http://www.cityfarmer.org/rooftop59.html

Container Rooftop Gardens:
http://www.container-gardens.com/Container-gardens-rooftop.htm
seticat

Re: Wow!

seticat

November 30 2008, 04:24:43 UTC 12 years ago

Yep. It's right on I-5 so you can see if from the freeway, but it's back far enough that the noise pollution is minimal. There's a lot of open, greewsward around the building that the pictures really don't show and it's open for folks to go walking in, fly kites [no power lines in that area], walk their dogs, etc.