I really, really love the idea of vertical farms. What’s not to love about growing food without wasting horizontal land space?

Architect Laurie Chetwood came up with this winning design for a bridge across London’s Thames river. From Inhabitat:

Recently Chetwood Architects unveiled a stunning proposal for a futuristic London Bridge that sprouts a towering vertical farm [...]

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Broadstar Wind Systems, a company based in Dallas Texas, has provided the public with not one, but two lofty promises: that their wind turbines can 1) be integrated into almost any location, including cities and 2) are inexpensive, at a cost of $1 per watt.
Older, more traditional wind turbine systems has its drawbacks. They had [...]

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