Wednesday, January 2, 2013

GILA (green infrastructure, living architecture) trends 2013 - it grows up and aquaponics

So many great things happened in 2012, from the explosion of aquaponic ventures across the world, to more green roof legislation and courses. To guess what will be hot in the new year, I think we have to look back a bit.

-Aquaponics - will stay hot, red hot.

-Other cities will continue to chase their version of the massively successful Highline, including Sydney, Australia, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, London and Chicago.

-Vertical farming and rooftop farms will continue to proliferate.

-The last big trends to look for will be the development of policies revolving around continuous productive landscapes, retrofitting neighborhoods to deal with fluctuations in rainfall due to climate change and the idea of like-minded groups joining forces to create holistic whole system urban agriculture solutions, instead of stand alone endeavors.

Let's see what happens!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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