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Nature at Work - Green Infrastructure Virtual Tour

This tour was created as a companion for "Building Ecological Infrastructure" to more thoroughly illustrate concepts discussed therein. For more information on the projects depicted below, please refer to "Nature at Work: Building Ecological Infrastructure."

Vegetated Roofs at Virginia Beach City School Buildings

Images: VBschools


Virginia Aquarium Adventure Park

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Image: C. Brighton


 

NYC Hghline

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Images: C. Brighton


 

Virginia Commonwealth University Pollack Rooftop

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Image: VCU


Smartslope Vegetated Retaining Wall - Beltway Business Park

Image: Smartslope


Grove Avenue Living Wall, Richmond, Virginia

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Image: WatershedArchitects


Residential Food production and air filtration in Virginia

Image: C. Brighton


Bus Stop Garden in London

Image: www.theediblebusstop.org/


The Farmery- Food Production and Retail Outlet Combined

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Image: The Farmery Facebook Photo by Amy Edwards


ECF Container Farm, Berlin, Germany

Aquaponics allows for the high yield production of protein and produce in a symbiotic and eco-friendly system - Tanks filled with fish at ground level feed water and nutrients to the plants grown above in the greenhouse.

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Image: ECF FarmSystems


 

The Science Barge - Floating Garden, NYC

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Image: theSciencebarge


 

NYC Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm

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Image: C. Brighton

 


Urban Hop Harvest in Pittsburgh, PA

The Hops Project reclaims derelict lots to grow hops for local brews

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Image: gtechstrategies.org


 

Image: FlyChicago.com


Lufa Farms on a Montreal rooftop grows produce all year long

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Image: Lufa Farms Facebook


Vancouver City Orchard

More than 400 trees have been planted to bring new life to vacant Vancouver lot

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Image: CityFarmer.info by by Michael Levenston


Philadelphia Orchard Project

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Native wildflower seed sowing initiative in Los Angeles

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Image: Wildflowering.org


 

Monarchs for Monarchs Project - Planting Milkweed in the ODU Vicinity


 

The Pollinator Pathway Project in Seattle connects greens paces for pollinators

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Image: Pollinatorpathway.com


BIQ Building

The facade of BIQ building in Germany is an algae factory. Microalgae are grown in the panels are harvested for heat generation

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Image: IBA Hamburg


 

Rooftop algae production at Ennesys outside of Paris purifies waste water and produces a fuel source.

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Image: Youtube Screenshot


 

Organica water renewal garden in Hungary

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Image: Organica Facebook


 

Living Machine at Evergreen School in Western Wayne County, PA installed by Worrell Water Technologies of Charlottesville, VA

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Image: Living Machine Facebook Photostream


 

Image: IslandWood.org


 

Omega Institute Living Machine

Image: Omega Institute


 

Oberlin College Living Machine

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Images: Oberlin College


 

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge natural waste water cycling systems pumps wetland treated water back into toilets for flushing.

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Image: C. Brighton


 

Filterra storm drain biofilter in front of the Shellfish Company on Shore Dr. in Virginia Beach

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Image: C. Brighton

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Image: Filterra

 


 

Talking Water Gardens Albany, Oregon - Tertiary Wastewater Treatment

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Image: Talking Water Gardens Facebook Photos by Jeanie Reed - Weeping Wall

 

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Image: City of Albany


Plus Pool - NYC Project to build a floating pool that filters the water it floats in. No chemicals are used. Using a special membrane capable of filtering half a million gallons of river water per day, the endeavor not only supports a valuable recreational resource, but also serves to improve overall river water quality

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Pilot Project,"Float Lab," launched in April 2014 on the East River provides a platform to test the technology.

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Images: Pluspool.org


Bristol, UK - Barge Garden

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Image: University of Bristol


Proposed London Garden Bridge

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Image: Transport for London

 

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