The world's first vertical forest + get permaculture on the Colbert Report!

Milan can now stake its claim to being the first city with a vertical forest, unless someone gets one up in the next 7 months! If the pictures look half as good as the real thing...this will be an amazing building!

-Also, there's a growing movement to get a permaculture expert on the Colbert Report.
Click the link, join the petition and like it on Facebook!

Boston's big urban agriculture month

-If you're looking for a job in the food security field and live in Ottawa (Ontario, not Kansas) get that resume updated.

-Lots happening in Boston. January 30 you can join Will Allen to brainstorm the future of agriculture in Boston. While you're downtown, you can hop on that Red Line to check out the first winter farmer's market.

-Italian architect Stefano Boeri goes big (and green) or goes home. He has created six bold, transformational "ideas for a bio-diverse metropolis" that could be installed in and around the city of Milan, to establish "transitional states between the city, nature and agriculture" and provide "energy sources for a new model of urban economics." Visionary and Idealistic, they challenge us to think about cities and the possible in new ways. The concepts were first introduced to the public at an exhibition in Rome last year.