40 Guerrilla Gardening Innovations

    As more metropolitan areas grow into sprawling concrete jungles, environmental activists have been fighting back with guerrilla gardening initiatives. These innovations aim to infuse vegetables, plants and other greenery into urban landscapes surreptitiously. OK, so the planter behind the sofa isn’t thaaaat surreptitious, but you get the idea. via Trendhunter ECO.

Minister Balakrishnan acknowledges “weather has changed”

In a press conference Sunday in the aftermath of the flash floods, Dr Balakrishnan said “Personally, I think our weather has changed. I’m actually psychologically prepared for it to get worse”. We take that as a sign of determination to be more active about climate change. Come on, Singapore – don’t just fix the drains, [...]

What do we want from our new Environment Minister?

Today marks the 11th UN-sponsored World Environment Day, and we don’t think there’s a better way to make Singapore’s newest Environment Minister, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, sit up and take note about the environment than a couple of flash floods famously touted by his predecessor as “once-in-50-year” events. Today’s a good day to think about how [...]

No, seriously, where can we get this?

    As someone trying to raise more plants indoors, I really like the Minigarden product, which combines a neat vertical wall design with food growth.  The white garden comes in a basic setup with three layers (nine pockets) with one water collection tray, three lids and trays, three planting rows, and 18 assembly clips.  [...]

Long Beach, Calif. Bans Plastic Bags

    When oh when oh when will we ban plastic bags? Maybe we should ask the new Environment Minister! Just a few months before a plastic bag ban goes into effect in Los Angeles County’s unincorporated areas, the Long Beach, Calif., City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday evening to ban single-use plastic shopping [...]

Singapore 2010 Waste Statistics

    The waste data show that the efforts of the government in promoting waste recycling has paid off. However, waste disposed has been increasing slowly since 2003. To work towards zero waste, there is a need for the total waste generated to reach a peak and decrease every year. This means that we can’t [...]

Book: Apartment Gardening

Seeing as most of us live in apartments, there’s this book called “Apartment Gardening” which should be really handy – and which would show us that we CAN have green fingers even though we may not have landed property.