North Garden | Insights
Exploring the technology, philosophy, and future of sustainable resource production.
June 12, 2025 | By Josh Rogner
The design of the North Garden arcology isn't arbitrary. It's a direct application of two of nature's most successful patterns, the honeycomb and the DNA helix, to create a new paradigm in structural engineering.
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June 12, 2025 | By Josh Rogner
A deep dive into the 'nervous system' of the North Garden tower. This isn't just simple automation; it's a deeply integrated AI that makes millions of micro-decisions every second, carried out by a fleet of robotic systems.
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June 12, 2025 | By Josh Rogner
Our civilization is literally built with polluting materials. What if we could grow them instead? A deep dive into how North Garden transforms atmospheric carbon into advanced, steel-quality building materials.
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June 11, 2025 | By Josh Rogner
We build cities for people; what if we built a "city" for production? Exploring the vision for a two-mile-high mega-structure designed to produce all of humanity's foundational resources.
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June 11, 2025 | By Josh Rogner
The biggest challenge for any high-tech, controlled environment agriculture is energy. We designed North Garden to invert this problem, turning its greatest potential cost into its greatest asset.
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June 11, 2025 | By Josh Rogner
The "North Garden Idea" – it started as a vision to transform biomass, a readily available resource, into something incredibly precious: fresh water.
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June 4, 2025 | By Josh Rogner
The vertical farming industry is focused on high-margin salads, but the world's food security rests on staple crops like rice and wheat. Here's why tackling the 'hard crops' is the only path to true food independence...
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