Living Walls

The design, creation, systems and care of green or living walls

Building Bio-Systems – it should be an all-out War (effort)

I gave a talk last week on Internal Bio-Systems for buildings, to eFIG, the European Federation of Interiors Group (http://www.efig.eu.com/) which was reported on swiftly by Horticulture Week .  They picked up on my use of the phrase “war-footing” for the kind of response levels needed to deal with the issues at hand.  Why?  Well,

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Vertical Hydroponics

I’ve just put up a revamped article on  vertical hydroponics http://www.marklaurence.com/articles/vertical_hydroponics.html which I first published on the Biotecture website.  I put it here because it’s relevant – even accounting for commercial bias – to the understanding of urban greening.  Actually, it’s not biased; my trialling and efforts simply showed that hydroponics work better, are more

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