Air-Purifying Houseplants

Air-Cleaning Houseplants What might your office or apartment have in common with a NASA spaceship? Unfortunately the answer may be poor air quality. Indoor air pollutants have been ranked among the top five environmental risks to public health: Stagnant indoor environments allow pollutants to build up and stick around in greater amounts than we humans should be…

Creating Vertical Ecosystem

An ecosystem is the relationship established between the organisms inhabiting a physical component known as a biotope (biocenosis).In our case, the biocenosis of a vertical ecosystem is made up of plants, fungi, bacteria and animals interacting with the substrate that we build for their development – our artificial biotope. The physical-chemical characteristics of the medium…

The Green Initiative

After a Metro pillar on MG Road and another one below the Electronics City Expressway, the vertical garden experiment is now in Bengaluru’s Yeshwanthpur. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is looking to take the ‘greening’ initiative all across Bengaluru’s many flyovers and the project is likely to begin soon. According to an official, taking up…

City Gone Green

World’s Densest Cities Has Gone Green “Singapore” Symbol of Singapore and its efforts to promote green space, these “Supertrees” belong to a display at the 250-acre Gardens by the Bay , The high-tech structures range from 80 to 160 feet and collect solar energy to power a nightly light show. They have a softer side too:…