Recycling The Environment
Posted on 7 July 2010 by LynThomas in Society
Housed in the world’s largest single hall to no have supports, an artificial resort in Germany is the world’s largest indoor waterpark. It was built inside a 352-foot disused aircraft hangar. This is the world’s largest buildings by volume.
Elevated park
Manhatton’s West Side in New York, has a new park being developed on an elevated and abandoned freight railroad line.The line has not been used since the 1980′s. Deciding not to waste the valuable space, the first section of the park was opened in 2009. When the park is finally complete it will be approximately 105 miles long. An ideal spot for that Sunday afternoon stroll, high above the streets of the city.
Spanish Park
A Spanish group Basurama, has taken the remnant of an abandoned electric train project, Lima, Peru, and turned it into an awesome amusement park, for the young adventurous of heart.
Using recycled materials, the group created a network of swings, climbing walls and even a canopy line.
When space for gardens is scarce and the country many miles away, enterprising groups find other ways to create gardens.
Hosted by a variety of volunteer and educational garden events, spearheaded by Ben Flanner and Annie Novak, a 6,000 square foot organic garden has been created on top of a Brooklyn warehouse, in New York. The project is known as the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm and feeds local families.
Roof Top Garden
Hayes Valley Farm in San Francisco, California, has been developed by a group of local residents. They began developing community gardens on unused portions of discarded freeways.
Street Gardens
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake led to the removal of many unsafe raised roads, leaving numerous on-ramps idle. The Hayes Valley residents decided to turn the useless and unsightly concrete blights into lush edible community landscapes.
Nomadic Museum
The Nomadic Museum was the temporary travelling home of Gregory Colbet’s Ashes and Snow exhibit.
Colbert envisioned a substantially built museum that could be easily assembled and deconstructed for transport between different locations. Originally debuting in New York in 2005, it was made up of shipping containers and other recycled materials.
The design of the museum evolved with each new location and during its final run in Mexico City in 2008, became the world’s largest bamboo structure.
Tropical islands such as Vanuatu, which has empty ship containers lined up on the streets, could take a page out of Nomadic Museum’s book.
City Farming
Taking the concept of urban farming, one dreamer came up with the idea of greening the rooftops of high rise buildings and supporting flocks of urban sheep, which could be moved around periodically.
Should you arrive at a middle-of-the-city-elevator and are forced to wait while a flock of sheep is sheperded to the roof, just put it down to the suitable inner city production of meat and wool.
All this of course, is but a reflection of ‘garden awareness’ that is sweeping the world, from the organic garden in Buckingham Palace, to Michelle Obama’s organic garden at the whitehouse.
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