L'IBGE reconnaît qu'il ya des petits lopins de terre « abandonnés » et propose de vous payer pour vous en occuper.

Le Ministère de l’Environnement et Bruxelles Environnement (IBGE) lancent un appel à projet, sous le nom "Quartiers verts", pour soutenir "les comités de quartier ou tout autre groupement d’habitants désireux de verduriser façades, balcons ou petits lopins de terre « abandonnés »."

Les candidatures doivent être remises pour le 15 octobre 2008. Les montants accordés vont de 200 à 4000 euros.

Et comme ils le disent:
"Pour mettre tous les tournesols de votre côté, n’hésitez pas à être inventif et original, à jouer avec la diversité des plantes."

;-)

Pour plus d'information, rendez-vous sur la page ad-hoc du site Inter-Environnement Bruxelles ou téléchargez directement le guide "Quartiers Verts" (pdf).

Merci à Olm- pour cette info.

Brussels-farmer in The New York Times

Well, not really. But I wanted to have a title like this :-). It's long article about Richard Reynolds and his Guerrilla Gardening project. And there is actually one line about us:
"Reynolds describes gardeners he has met around the world through his own blog,[...] These include a sunflower specialist in Brussels;[...]"

The full article is here.

Excursus: Bicycle + bubbles + seeds

Well, I dont usually speak about design or any other market product. So consider this as a digression. But this is just too much of sweet idea to be unnoticed. And maybe,... maybe we could build one of those ourselves.



Here is a description taken from the website:

Using natural ingredients; vegetable based soap and seeds, combine together to make a dissolving "nugget". The resulting mixture resides in a reservoir inside Blooms aluminum housing. The housing is attached to the lower frame near the rear tire, similar to a exhaust pipe. Upon pedalling, air enters the front of Bloom and spins a pinwheel inside which picks up a small drop of the seed/bubble mixture and blows a bubble carrying a seed out the back as "exhaust".

It's visually intriguing and a great tool to spread seeds around your city.
More info and a video can be found here.

Anybody has an idea how it's made?