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  • Extreme gardening
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    The Sahara Forest Project proposes to reverse desertification and turn arid regions into resources of food, fresh water and clean energy. >
  • Cement garden
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    CMG Landscape Architecture’s Crack Gardens transform existing concrete slabs through hostile takeover. >
  • Farm with a view
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Growing food inside apartments is a challenge, but within reach with Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray's Window Farms. >
  • Gay architectural mockumentary
    Point of View • 1 Nov 09
    Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film. >
  • Channel O lucky packet
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    The new magazine Coco Joe has been conceived as a brand extension for Channel O by Peet Pienaar and design studio The President. >
  • Pocketful of posies
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants. >
  • Readymade oasis
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Evan Gant’s RainDrops system allows people to adapt standard plastic bottles to an existing gutter system to collect rainwater. >
  • Robotic aquaculture
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    The self-sustaining and untethered Oceansphere is powered by a patent-pending hybrid ocean thermal energy conversion system. >
  • Petri dish flesh
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    The Tissue Culture and Art Project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr explores the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression. >
  • Grown tables
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    A tree is a product of its specific time and place. >
  • Hard stomach
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Julia Lohmann’s work explores the threshold between animal and animal material, probing society’s attitude towards animals. >
  • Leapfrog rising sea levels
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Lilypad by architect Vincent Callebaut is a floating ecopolis for climate refugees in 2100. >
  • Powerplant tomatoes
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    A collaboration between Great Northern Hydroponics and GE Energy has resulted in a massive greenhouse cogeneration plant. >
  • Food miles
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    WHYBIN/TBWA Sydney has crafted 12 countries’ flags from food typical of the country. >
  • Earthship
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    The Science Barge is a prototype sustainable urban farm and environmental education centre afloat the Hudson River in New York. >
  • Farm in a box
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    The self-watering, self-feeding, weed-resistant EarthBox is a portable, reusable, maintenance-free, organic gardening system. >
  • Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen.
    Singing in the rain
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    The Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen provides protection while collecting and filtering rainwater to make it safe to drink. >
  • Functional food
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Pharmland is a proposal by Nord Architects to redirect 20% of Denmark’s agricultural land to grow medicine instead of food. >
  • Growth and death
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants. >
  • Suburban spread
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric. >
  • Barrel o’ rain
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Designed to look like a giant water drop, Bas van der Veer’s A Drop of Water collects rainwater by filling a watering can and rain barrel. >
  • Body pharming
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Michael Burton’s design projects predict a future scenario where people grow and produce clinical and pharmaceutical products on the body. >
  • Crop artist
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Environmental artist Agnes Denes’s iconic 1982 work, Wheatfield, is revived in London in 2009. >
  • Ornamental pastures
    Creative Work • 1 Nov 09
    Hafsteinn Júlíusson’s Growing Jewellery is a clash of jewellery and gardening, couture and organism. >

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