Last year we wrote about the Boatanic, a delightful project that takes old discarded tourist boats and converts them into floating greenhouses. The greenhouses grow fresh seasonal food for local people and restaurants nearby.
Recently, we just caught wind that Damian O’Sullivan, the brains behind the boat has set sail on the boat’s maiden voyage, picking up a few lucky passengers in and around the city of Utrecht. The Boatanic has set sail! (Well, for a day).
Now the project will be on display at the gallery Kunstliefde, in Utrecht until the 24th of July 2011.
We really do love the Boatanic. In addition to being a project around local food growing, it also serves as an educational experience for school children, who get free tours of the boat and workshops on growing. And, the project is all about reviving inner city waterways, trying to inject new life into areas that have been stagnant for decades. A very simple, charming All-Consuming green thing.
Ps- If you’re a bit of a seafarer yourself, check out the Boat Project.
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
