learning gardens

playground parts:

https://thekitchencommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TKC-Product-Specs.pdf

see learning gardens article below

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Date: October 2, 2017 at 2:01:26 PM EDT

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People, inventions, technologies, books and events. View this email in your browser OCTOBER 2   |   SPECIAL ISSUE 4 NOURISHMENT Prosperity for All: Learning Gardens Prosperity for All: Protecting the Earth Is Good Business  Decorative Fruit No Lot Is Vacant Tiny Kitchen LEARNING GARDENS Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger A new movement that includes aquaponics, shipping container farming and cellular agriculture is eating into the global dominance of Big Ag. The next generation is feeding itself on local, sustainable foods – grown at home, at school and in the lab. Kimbal Musk, the tech millionaire turned restauranteur, is leading the fray, through the Kitchen Community nonprofit and his Learning Gardens initiative. PROTECTING THE EARTH IS GOOD BUSINESS Sustainable Development Goal 2015: Life on Land Gunter Pauli's Blue Economy model promotes enterprises that make the world a better place for all, one reimagined product at a time. On a macro scale, it also proposes entirely new closed-loop approaches – such as the zero-emissions brewery concept visualized here. And change is happening: the platform has identified dozens of successful businesses that have built social capital while treading lightly on the Earth. One such company is Germany's Bonaverde which makes a raw bean coffee machine that ensures coffee growers receive fair payment – they make a minimum of 25 percent over the production price – and creates a direct connection between the cultivator and end user. DECORATIVE FRUIT A Local Solution to Hunger In collaboration with Second Harvest and Toronto's Gladstone Hotel, Robert Cram creates an installation that serves as a functioning fruit and vegetable market, a sculpture gallery and a visual representation of one quarter of the food rescued and delivered daily by Second Harvest. In North America, over 30 percent of fruits and vegetables are rejected by supermarkets because they aren't attractive enough for consumers, while one in eight Canadian families struggle to put food on the table. It is estimated that a billion pounds of food is wasted annually in the GTA. The sculptural work embraces the weird, extraordinary and discarded through its juxtaposition with the familiar, uniform and standardized. Three-dimensional printed bronze-cast sculptures – a pepper, an eggplant and an orange – have been embedded within the market: perfect for arrangements with flowers and greenery or use alone as a tabletop décor. If sold, 50 percent of the net proceeds from the sale of the sculptures will be donated to Second Harvest. NO LOT IS VACANT By Victoria Taylor, Bowery Project and Jonas Spring No Lot is Vacant is a response to EDIT's partnership with the UNDP and its Global Goals of Zero Hunger. The team has transformed a vacant rooftop of the abandoned Unilever soap factory; breathing life into a new story of a former industrial site at an important time in its transition. Envisioned by Victoria Taylor Landscape Architect, urban farmers Bowery Project and plantsman/garden builder Jonas Spring/Ecoman, No Lot Is Vacant encourages a new way of thinking about how we nourish urban lands. The rooftop features Helianthus annuus (sunflower) a food source for birds; foraged plants spontaneously growing on site; and a mobile urban farm constructed from re-purposed milk crates (inspired by Ore Design) relocated from a vacant lot nearby. The rooftop is also pollinated by the abstracted steel petals of designer Andrew Jones' The Battery Chair for Maglin. The rooftop border is a 20M long viewing bar of site-salvaged rail timbers and at grade, in collaboration with site maintenance, a patch of commercial lawn left unmown and unirrigated through the summer, reveals the latent beauty and diversity of a vibrant urban-hardy meadow. TINY KITCHEN (formerly Mod Garden) By Amar Khwaja  Once a Wall Street banker, now an entrepreneur, single dad, and a passionate believer in the power of home-grown organic food to change your health and the world around you, Amar Khwaja's own health crisis led him to start a project to provide himself with a daily dose of homegrown organic food – even though home is an urban high-rise apartment. This Tiny Kitchen model is his fourth prototype, and he's learned through user testing that consumers want beauty and elegance, not just functionality. MASSIVE CHANGE NETWORK 1316 Sherman Avenue, Suite 200, Evanston, Illinois  60201  USA - (888) 976-2668 Home  Offerings  About  Case Studies  Bruce Mau Authorship  Contact Copyright © 2017 Massive Change Network, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Subscribe to our newsletter.