Greenaid seedbomb dispensers encourage regular people to casually become guerrilla gardeners, helping to add a little green to the concrete jungle as they are passing through.
Designers Danny and Kim started Greenaid as a way to engage local urban communities to incrementally beautify their environment. It's a "bottom up" initiative that involves taking old gumball machines, converting them to dispense seedballs that they sell or rent out to business, organizations or individuals that want to green the gray in their community.
Danny and Kim will develop a custom seed bombs from a mixture of clay, compost and seed and a strategic neighborhood intervention plan in response to the unique needs of the vendor's local ecology.
"You then simply place the machine at your local bar, business, school, park, or anywhere that you think it can have the most impact. We will then supply you with all the seedbombs you need to support the continued success of the initiative."
They admit that it's not a final solution to problems of urban environments but they saw it as a fun and interesting way to place emphasis on the actions of individuals and empower them to make small contributions to the beautification of their city.
"We recently built and placed several machines in the L.A. area containing native California wildflower seeds (such as White Yarrow, California Poppy, Lupine, and Blue Flax) and they've been received with enormous enthusiasm from local residents and businesses. We're enlisting your help to deploy a fleet of 12 more machines in underserved communities across L.A! We are in the process of determining the best locations for them, and as a backer you too can have a chance to help us determine where they'll go!"
In order to fund this project they need to raise $10,000 by July 3rd. They've raised $3897 so far through 171 donations with a little less than 2 weeks to go. You can contribute to this project and help them reach their goal by making a donation at Kickstarter.
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This is an awesome idea, Send a few to Canada too.
Seed-bombs full of edibles! Perennial edibles where possible! Tribulations are about to fall on an oil soaked U.S.A. as the Chinese move into the second phase of their economic war against America by varying the valued of the Yuan in their own favor of course! Some asinine Americans see this as a reprieve for their slothful ways by a benevolent China? The fools better learn to tighten their belts as a voracious Yellow tide from Asia gains the power of commerce without the propagandized habituation of the Americans! Food seed bombs will be necessary for holding off starvation in the ‘burbs, where oil will bring premium prices – higher than you can possibly imagine with 1.6 Billion Chinese cash-enabled by a strong Yuan to bid against a weakened, over-manipulated , fiat and untrusted American dollar! Beware the empty gasoline tanks of Asia – they hunger for the American share of this finite world resource! To satisfy them in this new economical struggle we too will have to become vegans, live on veggies and rice and produce more per-capita than we do now! Food-seed bombs will ease the hunger pins as we work towards bigger better solutions in the streets while Washington muses itself with its WWII armaments and go looking for a WWII style battlefield while we starve! Better educated, better bred new breed Asians are after our bounty with economic tools we don’t even understand! Seed bomb to plant food for survival of the few, or seed bomb flowers for the funerals of the many who will not adapt in time! 2013 – the end of the Corporatist American Empire, the end of vicious barracuda BP styled capitalism, the beginning of a new age for mankind – in Mandarin – not in English at all! Bomb veggies and grains not people.
I completely agree with UncleB. What they are doing with seed bombs is beautiful, and a valuable tool in empowering people. However, food, perhaps introduced after flowers paved the way, so to speak, could be a beautiful way to move this in the future
This might work if only local plants were used. Tossing seeds from foreign plants into an eco-system is like biological terrorism.
@Uncle B
Don’t worry the world will end in 2012…
Seed bombs are great ONLY if they are native species….
What a kick-ass idea! Gorilla gardening bombs via vending machines.