Category: Urban Life

865: Kane Wilton on Seeds, Community, and Regenerative Growth. Transforming our communities through seeds. In This Podcast: Kane Wilton, an organic farmer, garden designer, and seed enthusiast, co-founded the 1904 Project in Salem, Oregon, to connect and empower individuals toward regenerative and local food. His gardening journey began with growing flowers for his wife, eventually…

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This post may contain affiliate links.* As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Click here to read our affiliate policy. Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Greywater is water that has been recycled after a previous use. One of the classic examples is the reuse of laundry water to water a garden. There are other examples…

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A woman is on her way to work. She gets on a train at West Portal Station in San Francisco, tagging her Clipper card. She quickly reads the latest news on her quick ride to Montgomery Station – just long enough to read the headlines and look at photos of the A’s World Series victory…

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Photo: Haupt and Binder Updated February 2025 From the street, one would never guess that a magnificent narrative of Venetian history, art, and culture was hidden behind centuries-old plaster walls and a set of wooden doors marked 3201. Pass through the entrance, and you step back centuries into the Palazzo Capello Malipiero Barnabò, the Countess…

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The global pandemic broke down our daily routine resulting in a drastic change in our lives. Like in other countries, the majority of  Filipinos have resorted to urban gardening to cope with the nationwide lockdown implemented in the Philippines. I have been in the gardening scene for more than ten years now, but this sudden…

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img { border: 15px solid #FFFFFF; } A while ago, we created gtfs2gps, an R package that converts public transport data from GTFS format to GPS-like records. After a lot of package improvements, different versions and over 15K downloads on CRAN, we finally have a preprint of the paper that introduces gtfs2gps to the world….

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Whatupdoe! That was the enthusiastic and distinctly Detroit greeting that welcomed more than 500 attendees to the city often considered the mecca of urban agriculture in the U.S. The first-ever national urban agriculture conference, held in the Motor City from August 4-6, was inspiring and informative. Signage at D-Town Farm The three-day event was sponsored by…

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“Smart” Greenhouses, Climate Control Matters and Sustainable Storage Las Vegas, NV  –Indoor Ag-Con, the largest show dedicated to indoor agriculture, is the place to find the latest trends shaping the future of farming. Come March 11-12, farmers, growers, ag tech leaders, suppliers, advocates and enthusiasts will converge at Westgate Las Vegas to experience an expanded Expo Hall with 200+ exhibiting companies…

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A vital tool in design process for Students This post was originally published in Bootcamp, a living collection of resources and case studies for designers starting in Design, UX, and UI by Nivedhitha Venkatakrishnan. Storytelling and stories are an integral part of humankind since the beginning of time. Every culture, person, the place has a…

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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in our theme for February 2025, “Celluloid City,” which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here By Alyssa Lopez In March 1935, when sixteen-year-old Lino Rivera pocketed a knife while cutting through the S.H. Kress dime…

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