Having just read Deep Ecology for the 21st Century - edited by George Sessions, I thought I would share a couple of items that jumped out at me. "To achieve a viable human-earth community, a new legal system must take as its primary task, to articulate the conditions for the integral functioning of the [...]
Hanging Gardens of New Zealand was awarded the Ports of Auckland contract for the installation of the largest vertical garden of its kind in the world, on the new car-handling building on Auckland’s waterfront. Ports of Auckland Chief Executive Tony Gibson said “This vertical garden is one of the design features of this new [...]
From our very beginning 8 years ago, Hanging Gardens has focused on how we can create sustainable and beautiful environments for the benefit of people and the planet. We hope we can inspire you to do things differently! Hanging Gardens started 8 years ago when I could not find a single DIY vertical garden [...]
I know that there are a lot of people active in the green economy, who have been flat out for months. Six months, years or more. So I have to admit that today, I did not feel guilt walking my dogs on a deserted beach. A little global pause feels good! In Venice, the [...]
Voice recorded messages when calling a business should be banned. Who wants to hear sales blurb when you want to talk to someone who cares? Today I spend half an hour trying to find someone who cares about the fact that my water suddenly dried up. I was diverted to the outages answering system [...]
This year, moving into the new and bigger garden provided the perfect time for me to grow my own edibles. The fruit trees were established some 6 years ago and now, crop after crop, the peaches, apricots, pears and apples provide a veritable feast for the birds. Some of the birds are so fat, [...]
According to the State of Global Air (SOGA) 2019 study, the life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average by breathing the toxic air that is widespread across the globe with the greatest toll in south Asia. Air pollution contributed to nearly one in every 10 deaths in [...]
We now know with absolute certainty that our presence on this planet will kill us if we do not change the way we are living We also know with absolute certainty that there are thing we should be doing to improve our future. But we do not act. To act, we need to change [...]
Call me naive, but I always thought the bank was my friend. In 2012 I started Hanging Gardens when I ran out of garden space. I looked around for a larger property and found a cross lease property three houses away but developing this was a nightmare as the cross lease neighbour refused to [...]
In this time of climate change and increasing urban challenges, governments around the world are increasing the legislation regarding the addition of greenery in urban areas. Biophilic design is a concept used within the building industry to increase human connectivity to the natural environment Defined by Edward O. Wilson as the “the innate tendency [...]
