Eban Goodstein, director of C2C Fellows and the Bard Center for Environmental Policy writes about the recent regional training workshop at the University of Georgia Athens.

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The CityLab7 [storefront] Mushroom Farm opened on February 20th with a “healthy dose of surprises and delights” including an amusing wish granted by ITP founder Maggie Kaplan.

Britta Riley and her Windowfarms team update us on their progress since the close of their successful Kickstarter campaign.

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 Invoking The Pause Grant Partner CityLab7 is featured in an article in the New York Times T Magazine.  Please join us in congratulating the team on 3 years of work culminating in the project design and unveiling of the storefront Mushroom Farm.  Visitors to Seattle can view the display on the ground floor of the Olson Kundig Architects building through March 8th.

READ THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE HERE

In the past two months we’ve celebrated New Year’s Day (on the Gregorian calendar), Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, and now at ITP, we’re commemorating our own new beginnings: our 2012 grant cycle.

The 2012 deadline arrived at midnight February 1st, and the results are an incredible range of grant proposals. Teams from as far as Thailand, and diverse as students, professors, artists, scientists, photographers, and journalists have submitted proposals for their creative collaborations on climate change.

ITP grant partner CityLab7 documents the creation of their storefront Mushroom Farm. To read more and see photos chronicling the building of the greenhouse, click here.

Beginning in January 2012, CityLab7 will design and build their Fertile Grounds pop-up in collaboration with Olson Kundig Architects and Schuchart/Dow in an installation called [storefront] Mushroom Farm.

“As I traveled on, the air was literally filled with pigeons. The light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse, and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses.

Before sunset I reached Louisville, Kentucky. The pigeons passed in undiminished number, and continued to do so for three days in succession. The people were all in arms. The banks of the Ohio were crowded with men and boys, incessantly shooting at the pilgrims, which flew lower as they passed over the river. Multitudes were thus destroyed. For a week or more, the population fed on no flesh other that of pigeons, and talked of nothing but pigeons.”