{"id":10484,"date":"2014-03-29T17:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T00:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10484"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:34","slug":"this-enormous-rolling-city-is-designed-to-re-plant-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/this-enormous-rolling-city-is-designed-to-re-plant-the-desert","title":{"rendered":"This Enormous Rolling City Is Designed To Re-Plant The Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"author-name\"><a class=\"navigate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/user\/adele-peters\">Adele Peters<\/a> \u2014 Fast Company<\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Every year, more than 46,000 square miles of arable land turns to desert. As deserts spread\u2013a process that keeps moving faster thanks to climate change and practices like clear-cutting\u2013the UN estimates that more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/desertification_decade\/whynow.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">1 billion people<\/a> will be directly affected. Many of them, living in places like Northern Africa and rural China, are already struggling with poverty, so the loss of farmland would be especially hard to handle.<\/p>\n<p>One potential answer: An enormous mobile oasis that roams over drylands planting seeds. The Green Machine, originally designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephanemalka.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malka Architecture<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ybarchitecte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yachar Bouhaya Architecture<\/a> for the Venice Biennale, may some day be rolling around the borders of the Sahara Desert holding back the dust and sand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"htt<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3028173\/this-enormous-rolling-city-is-designed-to-re-plant-the-desertp:\/\/\"\">http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3028173\/this-enormous-rolling-cit\u2026esertp:\/\/\u201d<\/a> target=\u201c_blank\u201d&gt;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adele Peters \u2014 Fast Company Every year, more than 46,000 square miles of arable land turns to desert. As deserts spread\u2013a process that keeps moving faster thanks to climate change and practices like clear-cutting\u2013the UN estimates that more than 1 billion people will be directly affected. Many of them, living in places like Northern Africa [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65007,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484\/revisions\/65007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}