Urban gardening in Paris: the greening of bollards, which are placed in areas to prevent vehicular access.

Potogreen

Excerpt from Gavroche, June 22, 2011

Ces derniers temps les poteaux anti-stationnement sont au centre de toutes les attentions, en effet après les « potobos », les « poteaux cyclopes » et les poteaux végétalisés de la rue Dénoyez à Belleville, voici que débarquent dans les rues du 2ème arrondissement les « potogreen », bientôt peut-être des « poteaux roses » rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie?

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Thesis submitted for completion of Master of Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability

By Tara McNerney, Maarten Dankers, Luke Callahan
School of Engineering
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Karlskrona, Sweden 2011
85 pages

Abstract:

This thesis explores how to overcome barriers to growing food in yards in cities of North America’s Pacific Northwest Coastal Region, to help build towards a more sustainable society. We used a survey and interviews to investigate what barriers prevent people with access to yards from growing food, or prevent them from increasing the amount of food grown in their yards, and how these barriers can be overcome.

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Thiruvananthapuram, formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. Referred to by Mahatma Gandhi as the “Evergreen city of India”. Photo: Kowdiar Palace, the residence of the Maharajah of Travancore in Trivandrum.

25 grow bags will be given to each household

The New Indian Express
Aug 01, 2011

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Horticulture Mission-Kerala is embarking on an ambitious mission, that of extending vegetable farming to as many households and areas as possible.

The project would see the launch of rooftop vegetable farming in nearly 15,000 households under the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation and municipalities under it. It would be formally inaugurated on Tuesday.

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