Literal Seed Bombs

Jin-wook Hwang takes the idea of guerrilla gardening's seed bombs to the literal extreme with his proposal for a non-military seed planting bomb.

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Linkage: Cloth bags are bad and corporations are local?

Go figure, the plastic industry says that cloth bags are bad! via

Speculative architecture fiction.(image shown) via

Making newpaper boxes into planters. (image shown) Thanks Carlos!

Free e-book on sustainable printing. via

The growth of the greener lunchroom.

Documenting product placement (and displacement). (image shown) Thanks Mica!

The new greenwashing: corporations go "local". Thanks Mica!

Linkage: From Dumpster Pools to Slum Tours

Turning dumpsters into public pools, gardens, skate ramps...and more! (image shown) via

Shop Well With You is a body image resource for women surviving cancer.

Helping street vendors understand their rights visually. (image shown) via

Slum tours, the future of tourism?

Anti-war ads show what goes around comes around literally. (image shown)

Once again Sappi is offering grants for design projects around social issues. via

"Now Slower with More Bugs" stickers for software or organic gardening! via

The future of insulation? Mushrooms! Thanks Carlos!

Plant The Piece: In Sweden

I was delighted to see this image of the Seed Guns created by Christopher Humes and myself as part of our Plant The Piece project on exhibition in Sweden. They are on display through the summer of 2009 as part of the juried show Take Action! at the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg.

More pictures of the exhibition are on the Plant The Piece site HERE.

WSJ on Organic Lawns

The Wall Street Journal discovers organic gardening...

From Vandalism to Fandalism

Students at Köln International School of Design have been exploring the issues surrounding public space in their "From Vandalism to Fandalism" exhibition. Blog Roger Live reports on their recent Guerrilla Gardening activities (left) at RheinDesign as well their other projects including the Public Pillow (for converting non-seat friendly places) and less serious Cleaning Skateboard.

Thanks Marco!

Bloomin' Business Card

I love this design for a business card that grows from Jamie Wieck.

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Seeds of Change in LA Times

The LA Times published a nice mention last week of the Swords Into Plowshares seed guns that I helped create:

Seeds of change

Give this piece a chance. Plant a 9-millimeter gun or seed bomb from artists Christopher Humes and Noah Scalin, and you'll soon see blooming Shasta daisy, European columbine, foxglove, purple coneflower, spurred snapdragon, lupine or black-eyed Susan. Created as part of the traveling anti-violence exhibition "Swords Into Plowshares, Plant the Piece"...

The full article is online here (but requires registration to read). The guns are currently on sale at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Seed Bombs in ReadyMade

The current (May/June) issue of ReadyMade magazine includes a nice mention of Seed Bombs!, one of the flower growing, guerrilla gardening products that are part of the Swords Into Plowshares art project, which I created with Christopher Humes. Learn more about the art and get your own Seed Bombs! at PlantThePiece.org.