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Saturday, March 29th, 2008Arcosanti is an experimental town project begun in 1970 by the Cosanti Foundation, aiming at improving urban conditions and lessening our destructive impact on nature. It is built in the Arizona desert, 70 miles north of Phoenix and will host 5,000 people when finished.
The large-scale solar greenhouses will occupy only 25 acres of a land preserve [...]
The City Earth Needs
Friday, March 28th, 2008Auroville is an under-construction town from south India that plans to create a harmonious way of life for all its inhabitants. Lalit Bhati is an urban planner, an architect and resident of Auroville, and will be presenting the project at the Ecocity World Summit. The Auroville site states that the ultimate purpose of this city [...]
Agro Park, The Next Generation Park
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Nature seems to be rewarded with the space it needs in this world, after projects that include the green element are announced every day. One of these is called Agro Park, and is to be developed in Memphis, Tennessee. The hyper-park will encompass 4500 acres of land and was designed for multiple purposes, such as [...]
Dongtan EcoCity Coming In China By 2010
Friday, March 21st, 2008The fever of a green city has won the favor of China. Everybody knows that China is developing very fast and they are always looking to bring new technologies or ideas. Now the Chinese government has a plan to build a green city on the island of Chongming. The eco-city will be called Dongtan and [...]
The Global Seed Vault Stores Plant Seed Just In Case
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Forced by the disappearing of plant species, scientists have struggled to find a solution for that. The solution is the Global Seed Vault which had its opening a couple of weeks ago. The vault it’s located in Norway and it was build 500 feet under the permafrost and it stores millions of seeds from the [...]
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