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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Living with an Aortic Dissection & Marfan Syndrome

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Living with a dissected aorta, Kevin Songer & granddaughter Cali I experienced a 'root to foot' aortic dissection on November 30...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Florida Living Walls for the Urban Core - Stormwater, Ethnobotany, Habitat & Heat Island Cooling

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Florida Living Wall using Native Plants Living walls are a popular method of adding vertical green to the Urban Core.  Living walls cont...
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Friday, December 7, 2012

Vegetated Green Roof Mats for Metal & Standing Seam Roofs

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Green and Vegetated Mat Roof systems can easily be adapted to metal standing seam roofs. Because vegetated mats are monolithic - an in...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Low Cost Housing - Sustainability, Scalability and Integration of Food Walls and Vegetated Roofs

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I keep coming back to my favorite design for greenhouses where integration of food, stormwater and recycled materials creates a home for our...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Urban Core Shade Gardening Basics

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This post is for Michael O'Connell and all the others interesteed in having a productive garden on a canopy tree covered lot. Contain...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Urban Agriculture, Photosynthesis & A Garden Where We Forget to Die

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Green Roof plant photosynthesis has been a topic of conversation here on this blog many times. Florida Permaculture Garden - Lots of Foo...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Foraging Wild Edibles & Eating from the Florida Permaculture Garden

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Urban Ag! Seminole Pumpkin Breakfast Eating from the garden and wild foraging for the past week has been a challenge I must say.  In sea...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Eating from Urban Gardens, Day 3.5 Update

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Eating from an Urban Garden can provide insight into many interesting concepts.  I've either foraged or fed myself from our very tiny ba...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Urban Agriculture & Native Plants Diet

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Many of us dream of growing our own, organic healthy food and breaking away from industrial pre-packaged groceries. Dinner from the Flori...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Trees = Living Wall, Urban Greening in Small Spaces

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You can add an amazing amount of vertical green in very small city spaces. Living Wall using containerized fruit trees Smaller urban t...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Balcony Greening Jacksonville's Urban Core - Reversing Ecological Consumerism Trends

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'Seeds of Green" efforts are beginning here in Jacksonville and Northeast, Florida as an effort to highlight important sustainabili...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Green Roof and Urban Core Plant Extraordinaire, Bidens spp.

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I was asked to contribute towards a new municipality green roof regulatory policy, one where there was considerable incentive given develope...
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Friday, September 7, 2012

Green Roof Wind Uplift Studies by University of Florida on Modular and Built In Place Systems

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The University of Florida's Civil and Coastal Engineering Department has completed an extensive review of how both 1. Modular, and 2. Bu...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Green Roofs and Biomimicry's Lessons

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An understanding of proper plant use for Urban Greening projects, including green roofs and urban permaculture gardens can come from many so...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Green Roofs and Hurricanes, Design for Wind and Rain

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Hurricane season is upon us.  Importantly, Florida Green Roofs should have adequate design consideration provided for keeping plants on the ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Worm Castings for a Florida Green Roof

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Totally amazing, the work with students that Catherine Burkee is directing across the Breaking Ground Green Roof. Take a look at the video...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Sloped Green Roofs & Hurricanes, Florida Urban Sustainability

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Recently, one of the original field trial green roofs was temporarily removed to allow for installation of a solar hot water system piping. ...
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