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#91. Adoption Centre Saves Plants

The Halfway Home for Wayward Plants took in unwanted plants and common weeds from seven community gardens in New York City and offered them to visitors for adoption.

Gardening

Low Effort

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#83. Sheep and Lambs Eat City Parks

©Daniele Hosmer Zambelli

The city of Turin saved 30,000 euros by using sheep to mow lawns at three public parks.

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#70. Prairie Reconnects Neighbourhood

The Greening of Detroit offers educational programs connecting residents with planting organizations, and runs tree and productive planting sessions along streets and in parks.

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Plan Smarter

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#57. Ivy Invades London

Operation: Ivy League is a project to plant ivy on corporate London architecture. It is a natural appropriation organized by residents and commuters as an attack on dull and homogeneous buildings.

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Guerrilla

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#64. Trees Reduce Allergies

After becoming interested in allergies as a botany student, Thomas Leo Ogren began to research the relationship between city planning and allergies.

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Plan Smarter

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#20. Website Collects Figs

Fig tree map of Bristol generated by the Bristol Food for Free website, 2008

Bristol Food for Free is an online database of edible plants in Bristol. The website generates a map of any of the 113 species identified by its authors.

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Clue

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#23. Playing Cards Eat Central Park

“Wildman” Steve Brill has been leading forages in Central Park and the New York City region for over twenty-five years.

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Clue

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#24. Insect Saves Tree

Installation of the Insect House to prevent cutting of trees, Recetas Urbanas, 2001

A single-person tree-inhabitation structure designed for rapid installation, anti-police protection, and summer ventilation, the Insect House was built in one night at the invitation of a group pro

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Choose

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#9. Oranges Lead Nocturnal Walk

A Los Angeles law makes all fruit and vegetables growing over sidewalks “public,” so that even trees rooted in private yards may bear public fruit.

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Excess

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#10. Forager Eats Traffic Island

Foraging is the identification and collection of wild edible or medicinal plants.

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Excess

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#11. Trains Grow Salad

Nance Klehm, Foraging Montréal, 2009 photo: CCA

Train tracks can be wild corridors where plants grow because they are in the heart of the industrialized city: trains move long distances and generate strong local winds, carrying along pollen and

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Excess

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