Posts Tagged ‘roof’
22
Nov
Posted by palmsundae in Community, Corporations, Urban food, Walking and transit. Tagged: Agris Seijo, beginner, customer, empty, farm, garden, gate, neigbhor, noise, Odakyu, photograph, privacy, rail, rental, restricted, river, roof, Seijogakuenmae, Setagaya, station, store, track, train, Tsukushima, vegetable. 1 Comment
I visited Odakyu’s Agris Seijo rental farm in Seijogakuenmae in Setagaya and was prepared to be charmed by a community vegetable farm built by a rail company above their tracks. Three years ago, the Odakyu corporation rebuilt the station, undergrounded the railway, and used some of the new land to promote urban farming. But I left [...]
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7
Nov
Posted by palmsundae in Community, Culture, Temples and shrines, Urban food, heat island effect. Tagged: agriculture, Akihabara, bicycle, eco, environment, fall, grow, harvest, Kurashi, Licolita, maid, otaku, pot, public, rice, roof, shrine, summer, uchimizukko. Leave a Comment
Thanks to a great Japan eco-blog Kurashi, I learned about an Akihabara maids organization called Licolita that is involved in public environmental activities: including summer-time uchimizukko (splashing water on the sidewalk to lower ambient temperature), blessing bicycles at a shrine, and now growing and harvesting rice in rooftop pots. It is cool that this group is [...]
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3
Oct
Posted by palmsundae in Urban food, heat island effect, small business. Tagged: agriculture, desert, Dubai, energy, farm, fertilizer, garden, hydrogel, Hymec, indoor, insecticide, lettuce, Mebiol, mobile, Mori Yuichi, roof, Skygel, slope, technology, tomato, vegetable, Waseda, water, 森有一. 2 Comments
I recently had the chance to meet Professor Mori Yuichi of Mebiol, an agriculture technology company in Kanagawa. This research professor at Waseda University started Mebiol in 1995 exploring first medical and then agriculture uses for hydrogels. I was intrigued by his Hymec system for indoor farming and Skygel for rooftop gardens.
Hymec looks like a [...]
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10
Sep
Posted by palmsundae in Community, Urban food, Visionary, small business. Tagged: artisan, bird, cedar, coach, couples, 銀座農園, 表参道彩園, 飯村一樹, farmer, garden, Ginza Farm, Hirano, Iimura Kazuki, LOHAS, media, Nikkei, Omotesando Farm, real estate, roof, seedling, soil, space, vegetable, vine, waste, wood, work, work day, young, 杉. 1 Comment
On the first of September, Iimura Kazuki (飯村一樹) opened Omotesando Farm (表参道彩園), a roof-top garden rental space in a central upscale commercial and residential district. He is offering sixteen small plots at rents ranging from $170 to $250 per month (15,750 to 23,100 yen). Although community gardens exist in outer neighborhoods of Tokyo, Omotesando Farm [...]
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17
Aug
Posted by palmsundae in Corporations, Residences, heat island effect, small business. Tagged: air conditioning, Aoyama, beverage, design, exterior, girl, home, hydroponic, Imperial Palace, indoor, mall, office, pump, roof, showroom, Suntory Midorie, timer, vertical, wall. 4 Comments
Recently I visited Suntory Midorie’s showroom in Aoyama. The entrance vertical green wall with their company name was most impressive in terms of plant diversity and aesthetics. There are also about ten other designs showing the variety of looks they can create with wood frames and internal pump and watering system.
Suntory Midorie has created these [...]
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6
Aug
Posted by palmsundae in Community, Urban food, Visionary, small business, trees. Tagged: age, bee, beekeeper, deforestation, Edible, 銀座ミツバチプロジェクト, farmers, fear, flower, Ginza, Ginza Honey Bee Project, grass, Hamarikyu, hive, honey, honeycomb, Imperial Palace, kids, landscape, mama-san, office, pesticide, rice, roof, rooftop, sake, souvenir, Tsukudajima, World War II. 7 Comments
Last week the Ginza Honey Bee Project (銀座ミツバチプロジェクト) founders Takayasu Kazuo (高安和夫) and Tanaka Atsuo (田中淳夫) talked with me about their successful four year old honey-making project in the middle of Ginza, and showed me their rooftop hives.
We met in a unremarkable conference room in a nondescript office building behind Matsuya department store. A group [...]
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29
Jul
Posted by palmsundae in Community, Urban food, Visionary, small business. Tagged: accountant, bamboo, banner, Chuo Dori, De Beers, duckling, 銀座農園, 飯村一樹, 貸し農園, farm, field, food, Ginza, Ginza Farm, grow, Ibaraki, Iimura Kazuki, kids, market, mud, Nagashi Somen, Omotesando, Paul Smith, plot, rental, rice, roof, school, Shimoutsuba, Shizoka, Tanabata, tax, venture capital, Yanagi Dori. Leave a Comment
Last week I sat down with Iimura Kazuki (飯村一樹) at Ginza Farm, with a translator, and learned much more about his ideas for Ginza Farm, his background and his next project.
Iimura-san told me that he is very interested in urban farming in Japan and worldwide. His background has given him unique skills for pulling off [...]
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20
May
Posted by palmsundae in Corporations, heat island effect. Tagged: destroying, developer, Dr Kennichi Ijiri, earthquake, environment, fire, global, green, green wall, heat island, high-rises, Mohri Garden, Mori Building, Mori Minoru, neighborhood, parks, public relations, rainfall capture, real estate, Residences, rice, roof, Roppongi Hill, safety, Space Medaka, Tokyo University, urban life, Urban New Deal Policy, vegetable, Vertical Garden City, wastewater recycling. 2 Comments
Mori Minoru’s Mori Building is Tokyo’s largest urban real estate developer. His Vertical Garden City idea and Urban New Deal Policy are private enterprise visions for a re-made city that is at once more densely populated, more environmental and green, and more profitable for the largest developers.
I had the intriguing experience of being invited to [...]
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