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City Agriculture [1]

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Date: 2022-07-31  

The French Parliament recently approved a new law requiring all new commercial buildings to partially have their roofs covered with plants or solar panels.

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/05/new-law-in-france-green-roofs-on-new-commercial-buildings/

Villa M - living walled building in Paris

https://triptyque.com/en/project/villa-m-en/

https://www.v2com-newswire.com/en/newsroom/categories/commercial-architecture/press-kits/2001-01/villa-m-takes-amazon-to-paris-with-tropical-building

https://www.treehugger.com/villa-m-paris-triptyque-architecture-5271129

https://inhabitat.com/green-building-design-was-inspired-by-the-amazon-rainforest/

Foundational Agrivoltaic Research for Megawatt Scale [FARMS] - US DOE funding large scale combined farm and solar projects

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/05/funding-notice-foundational-agrivoltaic-research-for-megawatt-scale-farms/

USDA now has an Office of Urban Agriculture

https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/5/10/5-focus-points-for-the-usdas-new-office-of-urban-agriculture

email for more information or to comment: UrbanAgricultureFederalAdvisoryCommittee@usda.gov

Another vertical forest finished, this one in Huanggang, China

https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/project/easyhome-huanggang-vertical-forest-city-complex/

https://inhabitat.com/vertical-forest-apartment-has-an-astonishing-404-trees/

Rotterdam’s roofscape - greening 10 million square feet of rooftops

https://www.c40.org/case-studies/cities100-rotterdam-mitigation-meets-adaptation-on-rotterdam-s-rooftops/

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f082078d610926644d22e00/t/621e3b2a1ee23c373149cac0/1646148404157/URBANISTEN_Rotterdam_Rooftop_Potential_EN.pdf

https://www.fastcompany.com/90755913/inside-rotterdams-quest-to-green-10-million-square-feet-of-rooftops

Green walls for air purification

https://www.naava.io/en/

https://inhabitat.com/clean-the-air-in-your-home-with-green-walls-from-naava/

NYC AgTech Week 2022 will take place September 26 to October 1st 2022

https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/6/23/nyc-agriculture-collective-thought-for-food-partner-for-nyc-agtech-week-2022

Bringing food production back to cities

https://www.meed.com/bringing-food-production-back-to-cities

Roof garden for an automobile factory in Turin, Italy - flowers and a test track

https://www.treehugger.com/biodiverse-roof-garden-added-to-iconic-lingotto-factory-in-turin-5496690

Australian food insecurity

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/28/australia-ill-prepared-for-food-insecurity-driven-by-war-and-climate-crisis-former-defence-leaders-say

Editorial Comment: The war in Ukraine and Russia has made an already precarious world food supply even worse. The Russsian invasion in February 2022 is causing death by starvation around the world at the end of June. Even an “advanced nation” like Australia now may not be able to feed itself.

Creativity breaking out on European rooftops

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/european-creative-rooftop-network-designs-public-spaces-for-roofs/

European Creative Rooftop Network

https://ecrn.city

Rooftopedia - compendium of projects

https://www.rooftopedia.ecrn.city

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