After Jet Blue's announcement a few weeks ago, they get a full NY Times story covering their urban agriculture endeavor at JFK airport. Maybe the NY Times saw my posts about airports and urban agriculture?
-A self-storage facility in St. Louis gets to green their roof while offering the space for rooftop gardening. 9,000 square feet for $10,000 per year sounds like a pretty good deal!
-Regular readers know I don't like to profile projects still in the design stage...there's no certainty they will be built. But I'll make an exception for this project in Singapore, when Singapore wants something done, it gets done. So this project, the picture above, is as good as gold.
-Philadelphia already gives tax credits for green roof installation, now they are offering another incentive: density bonuses for green roofs.
-The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University has just released a "guidebook which provides science-based guidance and sample zoning code language designed to reduce the barriers to, and promote production and sales activities commonly associated with urban agriculture." Wow. Iowa!
-For those who want to expand their horizons, here's a paper on food security and urban agriculture in Vietnam.
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