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#1 Kalimaster

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Posted 30 September 2019 - 07:15 AM

Many of us are concerned with Climate Change.

Part of this is due to the loss of plants, which absorb carbon dioxide. Now ask yourself, how much space, or land is present in your average strip mall parking lot.

Enter in this concept: The Modern Hanging Gardens

Up to 2/3 of the parking lot lanes could be adapted for this. By building a raised platform bed along the parking spaces to which would overlap the hood and windshields of most cars and trucks, soil is then added to the beds which would then play host to wild flowers, small shrubs, and other plants. The plants would absorb carbon, as well as having shade provided for the cars and eliminate the solar heat production created by parking lots. Night time lights could be fixed to the underside of the beds.

#2 LordNothing

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Posted 30 September 2019 - 10:54 AM

would work until some hooligan decides to do donuts in your parking lot at 3am.

car culture seems to cause a lot of problems in both land usage (roads and parking lots) and emissions. its manly to buy a truck way bigger than you need for 99% of its usage cases. i suppose that comes handy towards moose season or helping your buddy move, of course the cost of paying someone to do this for you is likely less than the accumulated cost of buying, maintaining and operating a bigger truck. how many vehicles do you see that only have one person in them? and how many large middle class families cart all their spawn around to do stupid stuff like run errands, effectively living in their car and only going home to sleep. meanwhile that huge v8 is spewing out carbon filth constantly. at least give the older kids bus passes so you can send them off to run some of those errands and leave the car at home.

id like to see more pocket electric cars. like the little smart cars that are popular around here (mostly because its a small town on an island that doesnt have more than 50 miles of roads on it, and we have a hydro plant so electricity is cheap). pretty much an overzealous 2 seater street legal golf cart, with a cost cut tesla drive train and battery system. you could reduce road lane sizes by a couple feet and reduce the size of the average parking space standard. im pretty sure i saw one driving into town with a moose carcass bungeed on top.

Edited by LordNothing, 30 September 2019 - 10:59 AM.


#3 Anjian

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Posted 30 September 2019 - 09:57 PM

Hanging gardens.




Wall gardening.




Roof gardening revolution in China.


Edited by Anjian, 30 September 2019 - 09:59 PM.


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Posted 30 September 2019 - 10:12 PM

and there's my own personal favorite, hydroponic gardening. *bong sounds*

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Posted 22 October 2019 - 04:28 PM

noticed all these protestors spend all there time in the city with their rubbish signs and single use water bottles their mobile phones increasing waste and filling land fills, but yet none of these protestors will go out plant trees do any revegetation work or even get a job

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Posted 22 October 2019 - 07:33 PM

View Posthandsinpants, on 22 October 2019 - 04:28 PM, said:

noticed all these protestors spend all there time in the city with their rubbish signs and single use water bottles their mobile phones increasing waste and filling land fills, but yet none of these protestors will go out plant trees do any revegetation work or even get a job


trees plant themselves. seems a late summer chore when i go out and pluck all the pine saplings that made their way into my yard since the previous year. takes hours, but it sure beats removing a bunch of stumps some years down the line. every time a human does a hard job its usually to avoid an even harder job. that also explains the protesters.





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