As part of a post on Urban Farming, Coolhunting.com covered these great tools by design students Mirko Ihirg and Olli Hirvonen. These are part of a “starter kit concept of five hand tools for urban farming and a backpack to transport them.” As urban farming becomes less of a conceptual speculation and more of a [...]
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Living Christmas Ornaments
Very seldom do I ever see anything Christmas-related without shuddering. These living ornaments, however, are very much the exception to this somewhat grinch-like rule. Made by the marvelously-named Flora Grubb, an American florist, they are real succulent plants repurposed as bio-ornaments for hanging on a Christmas Tree. Her website enthuses: These amazing cuttings will last [...]
A Growing Billboard for Cape Town
Living or “green” billboards are popping up all over the place (if you’ll excuse the pun). Coke did it in Singapore with carbon-dioxide eating plants, and an enormous petri dish was created in Toronto to promote the movie Contagion. What’s exciting about this one is that it’s in South Africa. Inhabitat explains: You’d think that [...]
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