Repurposing Infrastructure for Nature

Bee Hotel Billboard: Infrastructure for Biodiversity Restoration

Transforming a billboard into a bee hotel for biodiversity restoration and local ecosystem recovery.Continue Reading

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Rethinking Jersey Barriers to Reduce Carbon

Integrating carbon sequestration materials and plants into Jersey barriers to create “carbon-eating” barriers. Continue Reading

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Reimagining bus stops with permaculture design

Reimagining Bus Stops for a Sustainable Future

How permaculture principles could be incorporated into bus stop design and the benefits that could come from them.Continue Reading

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What if We Repurposed Billboards to Increase Urban Biodiversity?

Reimagining Billboards as Natural Habitats to Increase Urban Biodiversity Our landscapes are dominated by advertisements that ask for our attention – with the boldest visual noise coming from billboards. I’ll leave the advertising side of the debate to Adbusters. What I’m thinking about now is a much more direct questionContinue Reading

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Urban Food Deserts: A Speculative Solution

To solve the problem of urban food deserts, we need to ask: “What If highway noise barriers were repurposed as vertical gardens?” Urban food deserts – areas lacking access to fresh and healthy food – are a persistent problem in many cities in the US and worldwide. The lack ofContinue Reading

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