urban garden Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 18 Sep 2015 04:56:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 San Francisco Parklets: Tiny Parks Replace Parking Lots https://www.greenoptimistic.com/san-francisco-parklets-2015/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/san-francisco-parklets-2015/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2015 04:56:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56688 San Francisco has a reputation as an eco-friendly system, and their parklets program demonstrates their commitment to green living. For the last five years, the city’s business owners have been busy turning ugly parking lots into gorgeous, tiny parks. Some are just a few plants, while some have places to sit down and relax, but […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/san-francisco-parklets-2015/feed/ 0 56688 Green Overpass Absorbs Traffic Emissions, Turns Them Into Biomass https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-overpass-absorbs-traffic-emissions-turns-biomass-20141104/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/green-overpass-absorbs-traffic-emissions-turns-biomass-20141104/#respond Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:12:28 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50018 No city official can now say that there is not enough space for biomass growth in the urban environment. A team of inventors demonstrated an algal farm greening up a highway overpass in Switzerland.  Made of transparent pipes, the system is designed to absorb carbon dioxide emissions from the traffic below. During the annual Villes et […]

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