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Urban Orchard Slips Back into the Ground

Images by B. Alter We first visited the Union Street Urban Orchard when it opened, back at the end of June. It is an orchard of 85 fruit trees and more, created on an abandoned site in the east end of London. It’s a community project, with volunteers helping to build and plant a pop-up garden. And now, with the coming of autumn, the orchard is set to be dismantled and every part recycled. The fruit trees will go to a public housing development and the individual plants will go to the Wayward Plant Registry , which is a … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Largest Ice Art on Siberia’s Lake Baikal

Images from the anthropologist Lake Baikal is the “pearl of Siberia” , the world’s deepest freshwater lake. Because of its age and isolated location in Siberia, it contains unusual collections of freshwater flora and fauna and 1,700 plant and animal species. It has had a controversial history with Russian oligarchs plotting to destroy it and activists’ offices being ransacked. However in the depths of winte… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quote of the Day: Robert Stern on When All Architecture is Green Architecture

Robert Stern is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, discussing sustainable design in Environment Yale. UTNE Reader picks up the story and illustrates it with….. a parking garage? “I don’t think sustainability is a design aesthetic, any more than having electricity in your building, or telephones, or anything else,” says Ster… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quote of the Day: Robert Stern on When All Architecture is Green Architecture

The Original Green By Steve Mouzon: A Must-Read If You Care About Sustainable Design

Steve Mouzon has been a fixture on TreeHugger since I first read his thoughts on the original green, on how people designed before the the Thermostat age, and how buildings kept people warm in an era before oil, or cool before air conditioning was invented. I have come to base much of my thoughts on the sustainability of heritage buildings (I am a volunteer at a heritage preservation org ) on what I have learned from Steve, much of which is summarized in the points made above in the illustration; that good buildings (old or new) are lovable, durable, flexible and frugal. I looked forward to his new book, the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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