urban farming
Requiem For Detroit?
Submitted by staff on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 17:04From London -
- In Requiem for Detroit (Dir. Julien Temple, 2010) we come face to face with a dystopic post-industrial city, in which 40% of the land in the centre is returning to prairie. This polemic documentary spans the course of the 20th century conveying the city's transition from Motor City to beacon for the burgeoning urban agricultural movement.
LSE Cities film screening and public debate
Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 5.30-7.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: G. Asenath Andrews, Stuart Gulliver, Bruce Katz, Richard Sennett
Chair: Roger Graef
For more information: London School of Economics - Events
Downsizing of Detroit to "Semi-Rural"
Submitted by staff on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 14:59Much in Boing Boing lately about the Downsizing of Detroit into Semi-Rural farms.
From the article by Cory Doctorow - 
"The city of Detroit is proposing to give over a quarter of its land to be turned into "semi-rural" fields and farms, with the surviving neighborhoods standing in "pockets in expanses of green." The proposal is politically charged (serving a death-sentence on a whole neighborhood is bound to be controversial) but the idea of "downsizing" Detroit seems to have wide acceptance."
Read the entire article and see links to more articles on this subject here.
The Greening of Detroit
Submitted by staff on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 22:46
Urban Agriculture Workshop
Saturday, March 13 Detroit Public Library Main 3:00-4:00 p.m. Presented by The Greening of Detroit http://www.greeningofdetroit.com/
Urban Agriculture Movement Detroit
Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 01:37"Yoking the Local Food Movement to Small Scale Meat Producers: Challenges in Translating Urban-Rural Identities"
The Year of the Environment lecture series featuring Scout Calvert (Library and Information Science)
Friday, March 12, 12:30pm in Room 2339, Faculty/Adminstration Building, Wayne State University, Detroit.
Flyer attached
here
Great Lakes Gardens Organic Urban Farming Demo by Ryan Rowinski
Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 16:103 part detailed tour of the Organic Urban Demonstration garden by Michigan State University Crop and Soil Scientist Ryan Rowinski at the Michigan State Fair Sept, 2009. Helpful strategies and techniques for the Urban Farmer.
Africa
Africa
- Lift Africa Technologies -
Lift Africa Technologies is a Non Profit Section 21 Organization affiliated to New Work which makes available and trains people in the use of advanced technologies. This enables members of the community to produce, for themselves, the majority of products they need for a modern comfortable life. It is the aim of Lift Africa to re-energize people with a vision not only of economic independence, but of renewed culture and individual development.
Technologies In Action
Powerpoint file with images of New Work technologies in action in South Africa - vertical agriculture, waterless toilets, mortarless bricks.
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