urben-disaster:

YVR Canada Line Station 4 Living Wall, located at the Vancouver International (YVR) Airport’s SkyTrain station.
by Angelina Xia

awyeahverticalgardens:

Living wall pool Vancouver (by Green Walls Vancouver)

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Submitted by Julia

Vertical garden design by Green over Grey.

Detail of an outdoor living wall installed in Vancouver, Canada.

More than 100 species of plants are being used, including many natives to the Pacific Northwest.

Vancouver BC YWCA roof garden | cityfarmer.info

via mrpibb

“A chef at Vancouver’s Fairmont Waterfront hotel harvests apples ripening among skyscrapers. Hotel accountants say the roof garden produces fruits, vegetables, herbs, and honey worth about $16,000 annually.”

photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel

National Geographic

“It looks like a prehistoric ruin overgrown with ferns, but it may be the next step in foliage-based architecture. The Vancouver Aquarium’s Living Wall varies the classic vine-covered trellis with movable vertical planter boxes and built-in irrigation, a design adaptable to many settings.”

Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, National Geographic

Vancouver, British Columbia | TrekEarth

Green wall in Vancouver by Green Over Grey

via livingwallart.com

Submitted by Gavin Walsh

incredibleroofs:

Green roof of the Vancouver Public Library

Vertical Farming in British Columbia

Time Magazine names Valcent’s Vertical Farming Technology one of Top 50 Best Innovations of 2009 — City Farmer News

Submitted by Julia:

Detail of an outdoor living wall installed in Vancouver, Canada, by Green over Grey.

More than 100 species of plants are being used, including many natives to the Pacific Northwest.

See more green wall pictures at greenovergrey.com

Submitted by Julia:

Detail of an outdoor living wall installed in Vancouver, Canada, by Green over Grey.

More than 100 species of plants are being used, including many natives to the Pacific Northwest.

See more green wall pictures at greenovergrey.com

Omega Hydroponic Garden Gets Five Times As Much Food Per Watt : TreeHugger

“We often wonder about the benefits of indoor hydroponic gardening, given that the sun is free. After all, Illegal hydroponic installations are often discovered by their abnormally high electricity use.  Can Omega Garden system make high tech urban gardening economically feasible and actually more energy efficient than growing outdoors?

Vancouver based Omega Garden’s Carousel system rotates the plants around the bulb. They claim that it yields three to five times the weight of plant per watt of electricity used, compared to conventional flat systems. Their commercial carousel system produces as much as a 1500 square foot greenhouse in only 150 square feet, and their LED system just sips electricity.”

via landscapelifescape

Inhabitat » Amazing Skyscraper Farm for Vancouver

This is excellent, but we agree with the comment on the Inhabitat page; Why not incorporate some wind turbines while you’re at it? The buildings we like best are not only green, but green!

[h/t hilker]

turkeyjaws:

A chef at Vancouver’s Fairmont Waterfront hotel harvests apples ripening among skyscrapers. Hotel accountants say the roof garden produces fruits, vegetables, herbs, and honey worth about $16,000 annually.