Hydroponic farming in Mexico and the USA

-A planning high school! How incredible is this? Required reading will no doubt include this bareknuckled Duany vs Krieger aka New Urbanism vs Ecological Urbanism dispute. Okay, slight exaggeration. These gentleman disagree a little, but "bareknuckled" really got your attention, didn't it?

Switching coasts, there's a nifty hydroponic set-up at a NYC school scheduled to open up in a week, but it's startling the difference in price versus what Sembradores Urbanos is doing in Mexico City, demonstrating simple, economical replicable urban agriculture projects.

-The Brooklyn Queens Expressway has a few green options , my personal favorite is green canopy...naturally!

-Won't be heading to Vancouver for the Cities Alive conference. I am a little bummed, but with everything happening here it makes sense to focus! Hopefully they'll be a post soon announcing some big stuff. 2011 looks like it's going to be a fantastic year for verticiel!

Hong Kong prison gets green roof

More and more it seems there are green projects which are laudable, but become lightning rods. Case in point, a green roof on a Hong Kong prison. This should be an absolutely fantastic thing...something you could never see in the USA. However, the wealth disparity and presence of "cage homes" in Hong Kong is unfathomable. Comments?

-North Vancouver's mayor appears to be a permablitz fan, food not lawns he cries! BC is also the home of a burgeoning movement to open a local food technology centre to help bring local products to market.

-Is Northeast Ohio in line to get their own Food Authority? Sustain-Lane ranks Cleveland as the second-best local food city in the USA! That, I did not.

-If you're looking for green roof information specific to the American Semi-Arid and Arid West, you're in luck!

-To wrap things up, school is in session. Today's topicagrarian urbanism.

But we're really nice because we have a green roof!

There is precious little new news from the living architecture world except for this doozy from the Post Gazette in Pittsburgh. It appears Slippery Rock Univ. is in big trouble, the U.S. Department of Justice's environmental division is suing them to the tune of about $35,000 (on average) per day for pollution violations. But they are really good folks.