Links for 16 April 2009

ikeasolarlight

  • Cheap and cheerful shoji-style solar outdoor lighting from IKEA: the SOLIG globe lights and light chain (US$20). Image from a wonderful review of the Ikea Solar Lighting Up Close by Notcot.
  • What materials are best for a school garden bed? Umbra advises on gardens and kids in Grist.
  • Trade, buy or sell local homegrown produce on VeggieTrader, a marketplace for backyard farmers in the USA. (Spotted in Springwise). 
  • OOOOBY store on Waiheke Island, New Zealand and online community for connecting with food growers and locavores to learn and exchange.
  • Exit Art programs in conjunction with their Vertical Gardens exhibition (NYC) of architectural models, renderings, drawings, photographs and ephemera that depict or imagine a vertical farm, urban garden or green roof. It features over 20 projects, both imaginary and real, by artists and architects that envision solutions for building greener urban environments. 

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