Untitled. Artist Unknown.
http://action.sumofus.org/a/tate-gallery-bp/?sub=tw
An underground rice and vegetable field has been planted beneath an office building in Tokyo's Otemachi business district. This urban farm - in what used to be the vault of a major bank - is maintained using computer-controlled artificial light and temperature management. It was brought into being by a personnel company as a means of providing agricultural training to young people who are having trouble finding employment and middle-aged people in search of a second career.
"As part of our ongoing investigation of viable and sustainable solutions to generating alternative power, our heads really turned when we came across this proposal for a power-generating “wind dam” by UK architects Chetwoods Associates."
Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion turned a São Paulo transport tunnel into a kind of graphic charnel house, lined with skulls.
Ecology, Art, and Technology (aka ecoarttech) formed in 2005 with the aim of working with digital and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments to create art about the environmentality of modern life.