If urban gardens are an integral part of the landscape in cities like New York and Berlin, he is no

"We wanted to bring nature into the city, where least expected to find it, we wanted to surprise people," says Yoav Shafranek, one of the members of the collective Onya - a group comprising 17 members and many volunteers barbeque whose goal is to transform the Tel Aviv bus station in the center of a thriving urban horticulture.
If urban gardens are an integral part of the landscape in cities like New York and Berlin, he is not the same in Tel Aviv and Onya group, supported barbeque by the direction of the bus station and organizations environmental barbeque protection, wants to change things. The station a "colossus" virtually no windows or natural light seven-story covering an area of 230,000 square meters, is for the collective ideal.
Now plants grow on the fifth floor in an LED light on the roof, on the seventh floor, members of the collective have created a garden and even grow strawberries. The plants are watered with drip water from the station air conditioning system. Because the exhaust gas, the fruit is unfortunately not edible, but it is also part of the philosophy of the project. "This reminds people about the harmful effects of pollution and shows them simultaneously that it would be possible barbeque to" Avigail says Roubini, another member of the collective.
Other information: Urban Horticulture in the bus station of Tel Aviv (in English), Times of Israel, 01.18.15 http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-tel-aviv-a-concrete-elephant-goes- from-blight-to-bloom-2 /
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