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Tuesday, 9 March, 2021 - 07:15 Greens are grown at Bowery Farming, a vertical farm in Kearny, New Jersey. Photo: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images London- Asharq Al-Awsat A housing project designed by US architect Nona Yehia promises to provide over 460,000 kg of produce a year, along with housing and jobs. Some vertical farms grow greens in old warehouses, former steel mills, or other sites set apart from the heart of cities. But a new series of projects will build multistory greenhouses directly inside affordable housing develop...

This Brilliant Low-Income Housing in Colombia is Made From Coffee Waste Feb 18, 2021 In a country with both housing shortages and world-leading coffee production, a small construction company has, quite brilliantly, found a way to leverage one in order to fix the other. Woodpecker WPC Coffee husks, a papery material surrounding the prized beans, are being turned into resilient, light, and versatile building materials that can make the panels of a house for as little as $4,500. The Bogota-based Woodpecker, which tried to develop a material from rice fiber, palm fronds, sawdust, and even recycl...