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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture - goes on the road</span><br><br>The exhibition Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture, was shown at the Design Exchange (DX) in Toronto earlier this year. The exhibition explores the relationship of design and urban food systems as well as the impact that agricultural issues have on the design of urban spaces and buildings as society addresses the issues of a more sustainable pattern of living.<br><br>The exhibit generated a huge amount of interest, including press articles, blog entries, YouTube submissions, and thousands of visitors.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Electric Indoor Compost Unit - The Red Dragon</span><br><br>You plug it in and hook up the exhaust pipe so that it vents outdoors. Then add a sawdust/enzyme mix and 2 litres of water to the machine. That's it. You can add any food waste AND DOG WASTE to the mix and it will decompose the
organic material.<br><br>That's the promise. We are presently testing the machine at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden to see if it lives up to that promise.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">New York Times - When the Problems Come Home to Roost</span><br><br>THE Bay Area is unmatched in its embrace of the urban backyard chicken trend. But raising chickens, which promises delicious, untainted eggs and instant membership in the local food movement, isn't all it's cracked up to be.<br><br>Chickens, it turns out, have issues.<br><br>They get diseases with odd names, like pasty butt and the fowl plague. Rats and raccoons appear out of nowhere. Hens suddenly stop laying eggs or never produce them at all. Crowing roosters disturb neighbors.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Popular Mini-Gardens in Berlin May Soon Be Paved Over</span><br><br>Tiny urban gardens are everywhere in Berlin and they have been for decades. But now, the city
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