From your own city – Rotterdam edition
On the 22nd of September the urban farm restaurant ‘Uit je eigen stad’ opens in Rotterdam. Most ingredients are from the local urban farm in the harbour area of the city.
On the 22nd of September the urban farm restaurant ‘Uit je eigen stad’ opens in Rotterdam. Most ingredients are from the local urban farm in the harbour area of the city.
The Velopresso is a mobile pedal powered coffee bar. The stylish designed verhicle is silent, environmental friendly and doesn’t depend on power supply.
The Californian initiative Ag Link connects schools to the local farmers. Before, all the fruits and vegetables where order outside California, whilst most of the schools are surrounded by farmers. Ag Link is an online initiative to ensure that more school kids will eat fruits and vegetables and will get to know the farmers.
In 2010, initiators John Burgess, Peter Newton and Rochelle Schwartz started to produce cider made of unused apples (and pears). This unused fruit comes from the many apple trees in the suburban of London, which caused ruined laws and attracted wasps. They started to collect this fruit to produce cider. Consumers who delivered the apples, receive the cider and a discount on more bottles.
Corio and Biet & Boon are working together to develop a pop-up roof garden project on shopping mall Hoog Catharijne in Utrecht. The harvest goes to local restaurants, offices and volunteers. Earlier this year the largest roof garden opened in Amsterdam.
The Noorderparkbar in Amsterdam, opened in April 2012, is financed by crowd-funding. Designers Bureau SLA and Overtreders W decided to save expenses by using 100% second-hand materials. An ancient Japanese technique, shou sugi ban, was used to produce a cost-effective, low-maintenance exterior cladding of charred wood. More pictures on The Pop-Up City.
This September (10-16), London will feast on the fabulous local produce being grown, produced and cooked on its doorstep, with the capital city’s first Urban Food Week . The week of activities is being organised to highlight the importance of buying and eating local food, urban growing and planting forage for bees. During the week, restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs across the city will be showcasing dishes and drinks made with ultra-local fruit, veg and herbs from urban farms, and from London honey cultivated in community beehives.
The Royal Cliff Beach Resort in Pattaya, Thailand, has been awarded the ISO 14001 certification (internationally recognised Environmental Management System (EMS)). As guest, you will notice this by the laundry request (almost standard nowadays) and for example by a recyclable and unrecyclable wastebin in the room.
Starbucks works together with biorefinery scientists to transform food waste into key ingredients for laundry detergent, plastics and other everyday products. The coffee makers announced this at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society’. As mentioned before Starbucks was already involved in local projects before like the use of coffee grounds for growing mushrooms.
On the 22nd of September the urban farm restaurant ‘Uit je eigen stad’ opens in Rotterdam. Most ingredients are from the local urban farm in the harbour area of the city.
The Velopresso is a mobile pedal powered coffee bar. The stylish designed verhicle is silent, environmental friendly and doesn’t depend on power supply.
The Californian initiative Ag Link connects schools to the local farmers. Before, all the fruits and vegetables where order outside California, whilst most of the schools are surrounded by farmers. Ag Link is an online initiative to ensure that more school kids will eat fruits and vegetables and will get to know the farmers.
In 2010, initiators John Burgess, Peter Newton and Rochelle Schwartz started to produce cider made of unused apples (and pears). This unused fruit comes from the many apple trees in the suburban of London, which caused ruined laws and attracted wasps. They started to collect this fruit to produce cider. Consumers who delivered the apples, receive the cider and a discount on more bottles.
Corio and Biet & Boon are working together to develop a pop-up roof garden project on shopping mall Hoog Catharijne in Utrecht. The harvest goes to local restaurants, offices and volunteers. Earlier this year the largest roof garden opened in Amsterdam.
The Noorderparkbar in Amsterdam, opened in April 2012, is financed by crowd-funding. Designers Bureau SLA and Overtreders W decided to save expenses by using 100% second-hand materials. An ancient Japanese technique, shou sugi ban, was used to produce a cost-effective, low-maintenance exterior cladding of charred wood. More pictures on The Pop-Up City.
This September (10-16), London will feast on the fabulous local produce being grown, produced and cooked on its doorstep, with the capital city’s first Urban Food Week . The week of activities is being organised to highlight the importance of buying and eating local food, urban growing and planting forage for bees. During the week, restaurants, cafés, bars and pubs across the city will be showcasing dishes and drinks made with ultra-local fruit, veg and herbs from urban farms, and from London honey cultivated in community beehives.
The Royal Cliff Beach Resort in Pattaya, Thailand, has been awarded the ISO 14001 certification (internationally recognised Environmental Management System (EMS)). As guest, you will notice this by the laundry request (almost standard nowadays) and for example by a recyclable and unrecyclable wastebin in the room.
Starbucks works together with biorefinery scientists to transform food waste into key ingredients for laundry detergent, plastics and other everyday products. The coffee makers announced this at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society’. As mentioned before Starbucks was already involved in local projects before like the use of coffee grounds for growing mushrooms.