Green community roof top demo

Idea:

Create a green community roof top demonstration open to the public. Vegetable gardens, rain barrels, beekeeping and eco habitat gardening with native plants that support a variety of pollinators and song birds.

Benefit:

In addition to providing food from a community vegetable garden it would provide a community gathering space, provide habitat for wildlife, vegetation for water control, and improve urban air quality, reduce energy consumption, and generally improve the quality of life for residents of the community. This is a system that [Read more…]

Location:

Downtown / JAM, OldIdea.

Canalways Trash-Eating Wheel

Idea:

Build a movable floating sculpture that would skim off and collect the trash floating in the canals and/or the rivers around the city of Lowell. Something along the lines of Mr. Trash Wheel in Baltimore. (see URL) It is essentially dumpster on a barge in the canal. Conveyer pulls floating trash out of canal. Powered [Read more…]

Benefit:

It would look cool and clean the waters at the same time! It would benefit wildlife and the environment as well as our tourist industry. I think it’s kind of obvious what the benefits would be.

Location:

Citywide, OldIdea.