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"Technos et humain" depuis Chambéry
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PopupCity : "Japanese commuters grow veggies on train station rooftops

PopupCity : "Japanese commuters grow veggies on train station rooftops | Ce monde à inventer ! | Scoop.it

Joop de Boer : "Rooftop farms have been established all over the world to enable growing food in dense urban areas. In Japan, a whole new kind of an urban rooftop farm was opened recently. Soradofarm is an urban agriculture project that uses the rooftops of train stations to accommodate urban gardens for waiting train passengers that want to use their transfer time to relax and train their gardening skills…


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Valerie Bauwens's curator insight, March 25, 2014 6:18 AM

In our MobiLab project, we identified as a clear need the enrichment of the experience-infrastructure-offer at "mobility crosspoints" (train stations, P+R, bus stations). This is another example supporting our finding

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Mohamed Hage : "Paradigm | How rooftop farming will change how we eat

Mohamed Hage, an agriculture and technology enthusiast, is the founding president of Lufa Farms, a company that designs, builds and operates rooftop agricultural greenhouses. It was to provide fresh, local and responsible vegetables to montréalais consumers that he created the first commercial rooftop greenhouse in the world in the winter of 2011. Mohamed Hage supervises all of Lufa Farms' daily activities, but is particularly interested in research, planning, construction and operation of the greenhouse environment…

 

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Lufa Farms : http://bit.ly/1eimQuD

 

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