Repurposing Urban Space

Guerrilla Gardening is about how to garden on land that isn't yours. How to beautify those horrid patches of wasteland that attract litter and junkies and illegally-dumped household items.

The Brooklyn Paper's slogan (“Brooklyn’s Real Newspaper”) really rings true with what is a pretty remarkable coverage of issues that matter to our beloved borough. Here is a sampling of the compelling — and often green — stories in their August 18, 2007 edition.

We (the team here at Change) get excited every time we see or hear about people making a change, so we are extremely excited about Evergreen Brick Works. This is a brilliant project by Evergreen, a Canadian registered national charity founded in 1991, and when fully completed it will be Canada’s first full fledged, large scale environmental discovery centre. To top it off, it all happens in an urban setting!

A slideshow update of a very successful Urban Garden Project in Winston-Salem, NC. The unused side lot of a 1950's Quanset Hut has been transformed into a high-yielding organic garden.