April 21, 2015 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
Tasked with designing an educational kit to convey “the contributing factors of urban poverty,” designer Ryan Romanes dreamed up the Urban Survival Pack.
To be used in the classroom, the package’s playful shape and tactility is intended to engage children through play while teaching new habits for sustainable living.… Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Creating, Education & Tours, Garden Design, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Indoor Gardening, Urban Agriculture
Tags: Dry seed Raising, Educational Kits, gardening hand tools, gardens, kids gardening, Ryan Romanes, Ryan Romanes Design, Survival, sustainability, sustainable living, Urban Porverty, Urban Survival
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April 19, 2015 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
Imagine: the sun sets and your sleek lounge chair lights up casting a soft glow throughout your outdoor living room.
I’m talking about the Lumiluxe LED Lounger designed by German company BeMOSS, whose tagline is Live. Light. Lounge.
This baby is equipped with battery-charged LEDs … Read More…
Category: Finding, Furniture, Lighting
Tags: double-duty design, outdoor furniture, outdoor lighting
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April 15, 2015 by Maggie Wells
You can picture it right? Starting your day by collecting a bounty of fresh eggs, herbs and other edibles, popping over to check on your buzzing bee hive, and then heading out to enjoy your day in the city with … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Garden Design, Herb Gardens, Indoor Gardening, Raised Beds
Tags: AKER, Easy Bee Hives, gardening kits, Raised Beds, The AKER Project, urban farming, urban gardening, Vertical Gardens, Worm Compost Bin
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April 10, 2015 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
One of my favorite French designers, Frédéric Malphettes, reaches new heights with Anno, his latest vertical garden trellis structure, a welcome addition to his family of modular vertical garden designs.
Anno is playful from the start: the name is a … Read More…
Category: Finding
Tags: Anno, Frédéric Malphettes, indoor gardening, urban vertical gardens, Vertical Gardens
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April 9, 2015 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
Who knew? I grew up in Los Angeles, went to many baseball games, but never knew that there was a Japanese garden hidden behind Dodger Stadium.
Yep, the story goes that back in 1962 when the ballpark opened, the team invited Japanese sportswriter, … Read More…
Category: Experiencing
Tags: ballpark, Baseball, Doger Stadium, Frank McCourt, hidden gardens, Japanese Garden, Secret Gardens, Sotaro Suzuki, Walter Alston, Walter O'Malley
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April 6, 2015 by Tierney VanderVoort
When judges of the House 2020 Competition challenged Ontario, Canada architecture, engineering and environmental science students to come up with an innovative idea for the house of the future, they asked the question: what does ”smart” mean now?
Competition winner, Peter Kitchen, Master of … Read More…
Category: Greening
Tags: bio remediation garden, House 2020 compeition, indoor gardening, on-site food production, Peter Kitchen, Smart Design, smart home
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April 5, 2015 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
You know about farm-to-table dining and perhaps garden-to-glass cocktails. Now there’s Field-to-Vase–where the dining table’s flowers were freshly picked at the flower farm only a few feet from where you are seated.
The Field to Vase Dinner Tour is series … Read More…
Category: Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Travel
Tags: American grown flowers, centerpieces, farm-to-table, floral arrangement, flowers, garden to glass, local food, slow flowers, slow food, sustainable flowers
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April 3, 2015 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
Crece Jicama is a collection of hanging ceramic pots inspired by the shape and texture of Jicama (Pachyrhizus erosus), a native Mexican climbing vine and root vegetable popular in Mexican cuisine.
The handcrafted pots hang from long rust-hued leather straps, a nod … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Finding, Green & Sustainable, Sky Planters
Tags: ceramic hanging planters, ceramic planters, ceramic pots, climbing vines, design inspired by nature, hanging planters, hanging pots, jicama, Mexican artisans, Mexican design, root vegetables, tubers, Wanted Design
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March 30, 2015 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
Dawnsknoll House, Photo: Art Gray
After many years on the east coast, I’m lucky to be back in Southern California (aka the left coast) where I grew up. I’m not missing winter one bit, and if I have a yen for snow, … Read More…
Category: Education & Tours, Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Green Walls
Tags: California architecture, California gardening, California gardens, Califrnia landscaping, Dwell on Design, Dwell on Design 2015, Dwell on Design Home Tours 2015, Los Angeles architecture, Los Angeles House Tours, Los Angeles landscaping, Southern California landscape architecture
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March 27, 2015 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
Perched atop rolling mobile gardens adorned with plants, insect hotels, branches, shells and more, a group of spirited young women and girls–Princesses of the Earth and Climate–paraded recently down Paris’s rue du Chemin Vert (which happens to translate to … Read More…
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: agricultural bi-products, eco-art, ecological consciousness, environmental issues, International Women's Day, Le Petite Rockette, mobile gardens, Paris Label, Princesses of the Earth and Climate, seed diversity, sustainability, urban sustainability
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