Cascade People’s Center will soon host their first  hydroponic garden, set up and maintained by CITYCROPS!  
 CPC is adjacent to a park and pea-patch, where neighborhood locals grow, in dirt, and lies along a busy path of shoppers, business-people and residents.  Our small patch of concrete will serve to inspire all to look at their  balconies and roof-tops as ‘fertile’ space.  This is goal [...]

The last week-and-a-half, slideshare.net has been ’featuring’ my presentation from the Pecha Kucha presentation! 
Very gratifying - Thank you slideshare! 
www.slideshare.net   A Future for Agriculture
Below is the transcript:
01 Can nature offer all this?
My core message to you is this: “Our best available landscapes for food crop production and agricultural development are not yet exploited.”  If we had a place to precisely [...]

The CITYCROPS project is an aggregate of many ideas, some ancient, some waiting to be proven reasonable, and many in between.  The benefits of each are probably self-evident, especially in light of  issues plaguing news-headlines and the periphery of our thoughts when we buy food as conscious consumers.  The steps we are now taking, in addition to [...]

Tonight I’m presenting at the Green Festival in Seattle. The format is Pecha Kucha, which I’ve done before, but I’m looking forward to the opportunity to present CITYCROPS ideas for a vertical aquaponic greenhouse to an audience likely to be sympathetic and already engaged in some of the principles behind this work.
A Future for Agriculture

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CITYCROPS started in earnest when I got laid off from my role as ‘Senior Architectural Technician’ with HOK. I worked in a Seattle-based project office on the Honolulu International Airport, a multi-billion-dollar-budget project that I was often frustrated by - hierarchy and all.
I have a lot of experience with aviation architecture and working with a [...]

After its discovery, one of the most prolific uses of glass in construction was for displaying exotic plants brought back from Roman adventuring.  Then came the Crystal Palace, in the 1850’s.  Then came skyscrapers, dripping with glass.
Urban greenhouses, proposed by CITYCROPS, require two paradigm shifts for design.  The first is to stack grow-floors on top [...]

The last hundred-plus years have brought a lot of change for the U.S. and the world as a whole.  Agriculture strategies, however, maintain an inertia long outpaced by the human population boom.  You don’t have to look far into the future to see the logical conclusion to this is bad for everyone.  Actually, you don’t [...]