August 15, 2024
Steampunkinetics has been a popular Kishroniyah group for several years, but this year, artist Bruce Rosenbaum worked with our participants on an entirely new type of project: vertical gardens designed to help fight climate change!
A recurring theme in Bruce’s Steampunk art is creatively solving problems. This type of thinking could be helpful in solving complex challenges like climate change by promoting creative and innovative approaches.
Bruce worked with the Kishroniyah participants to build self-sustaining natural vertical gardens, integrating a mechanical solar powered ‘Sunflower’ that can pump water to the garden’s plants and foliage. These vertical gardens addressed two major goals: First, the need to address climate change by increasing carbon capture – represented by the plants which naturally absorb carbon from the atmosphere. And second, to reduce the use of fossil fuels – addressed by the use of renewable solar energy to run the irrigation system.
We’re so proud of what our participants created! See above and below for videos of our participants showing off their vertical gardens, and explaining how they work. The video at the top of this blog, and directly below, is of our Machon/Nivonim participants. And the second video below is of our Magshimim/Bogrim participants.
The gardens are now mounted next to our garden in our Pinat Teva (nature corner).
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