June 28, 2020
This puts the culture in horticulture: After a three month shutdown, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened with an audience of 2,292 plants.
During the theater’s Concierto Para el Bioceno (Concert for the Biocene), those planted in their … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Indoor Gardening, Travel
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June 26, 2020
The novel Cornavirus has inspired some novel ideas. From personal glass greenhouses at an Amsterdam restaurant, stuffed pandas occupying chairs in a Bangkok eatery, to pool noodle hats at a cafe in Germany, people are exercising their collective creativity to … Read More...
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Experiencing, Garden Tourism, Green & Sustainable, Lifestyle, Public Gardens, Travel
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May 8, 2020
As the world braces itself for the reopening’s new normal and wonders what that will look like, a waterside Amsterdam restaurant will be serving guests candlelit plant-based meals in the safety of individual glass greenhouses.
To maintain minimal physical contact … Read More...
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September 18, 2019
Image via @LexiBella, Instagram.
From New York City to Berlin and beyond, artists take to the streets to claim unsanctioned public spaces to communicate statements about heated political and social issues, often impassioned pleas to the masses for action about … Read More...
Category: Education & Tours, Green & Sustainable, Greening
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May 1, 2019
Here’s a civilized idea for getting away from civilization…or for hunkering down right in your backyard. Escape off-grid (or not) with Ecocapsule, an egg-shaped smart, self-sustainable mobile micro home powered by high-efficiency solar panels and a wind turbine.
An … Read More...
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