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Jul 29
2008
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Be a vintage siren in Clare Bare's sustainable lingeriePosted by FunEditor in Untagged |
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Architect Carlos Brillembourg bought a 60-foot Southampton site and its accompanying two-room cottage in 1998 for $275,000. There, he and his wife, artist Karin Waisman, spent summers as newlyweds. "It was like camping out," Karin told The New York Times.
This collapsible and portable potting shed, designed by the London firm Superblue, uses honeycombed walls that provide a shelving surface for seeding and storing plants.
In the closing pages of Blubberland, Elizabeth Farrelly's pointed critique of Western civilization's excesses, the author paints an idyllic turnabout, one in which cities and agricultural communities merge into a blissful, sustainable harmony. It seems these dreams aren't just those of a wistful social critic, but of scientists and architects as well. Dickson Despommier, professor of public health at Columbia University, has been championing the idea of vertical farms since 1999 when he conceived of the idea with a group of graduate students in his course on medical ecology.
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