[Greenbuilding] rooftop or apartment gardening

[Benjamin Pratt]

interesting point. I've read about houses in the suburbs that are used for
this. I suppose humidity would be big issue if growing more than a few plant
inside a dwelling. Maybe i should direct him to rooftop gardening only.
Ben

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:17 AM, JOHN SALMEN <terrain at shaw.ca> wrote:

>  Growing crops intensively in indoor urban environments is one of British
> Columbia’s biggest economies. Unfortunately it is not a food crop and has
> not been exactly house friendly. A friend just had to renovate a rental
> house that was used as a grow op and the destruction was amazing.
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> As a result of the scale of this ‘industry’ the technology and
> knowledgebase is pretty advanced and there is probably an ‘example’ just
> down the street.
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> John
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> *From:* greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:
> greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] *On Behalf Of *Benjamin
> Pratt
> *Sent:* April 10, 2011 11:19 AM
> *To:* Green Building
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> *Subject:* [Greenbuilding] rooftop or apartment gardening
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> One of my students wants to design a system for gardening in urban
> environments.  Can anyone link me to any existing examples? His idea is to
> use as little space as possible.
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b e n j a m i n p r a t t

professor art+design
the university of wisconsin stout
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