Bosco Verticale

Continuing in the interests of the environment, health and sanity of people, and a favourite topic of mine - vertical agriculture.

Architects in Milan are tackling the concrete jungle by replenishing the greenery to our increasingly grey cities and modern lifestyles. The project is known as 'Bosco Verticale' (Vertical Forest) and involves incorporating  900 trees, 5,000 bushes and 11,000 plants across the balconies of two towers in the centre of Milan and includes a built-in watering system. The hope is that this will boost Oxygen levels, reduce CO2 and noise pollution.

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Connections Spring

Current issue 2012 still available - Summer issue just back from the printers and coming to a place near you soon. Alternatively why not become a member and receive it quarterly in your mailbox?  Connect International

99 Feelings

Mitsy Sleurs started with a Matryoshka doll and 99 emotions.
Source: Etsy

Red Sonja

Dew covered macro photography of insects - From close-up beautiful and colourful little designs in themselves.   Source: Treehugger

Cool Cat

Quite possibly the coolest watermelon ever. 
Kin Community

Cuddle Up

Absolutely love this group hug... 
Caterpillars? Birds? It’s actually a group of European Bee-eaters cuddling together on a small tree branch. The birds do look so much like a caterpillar though, that photographer José Luis Rodríguez named the image Oruga de Plumas, or “caterpillar of feathers.”
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Millefiori

The art of Millefiori —Thousand Flowers,  dates back to sixteenth century Venice, in which coloured glass rods are fused and cut to create flower patterns and incorporated in glass to make beads.


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