Prepara, a kitchen products company based in Manhattan, has developed a simple way to garden year-round without using soil. The Prepara Power Plant Mini is a rectangular container that automatically dispenses a water/nutrient mixture to your herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables so you don’t have to adhere to the traditional chores of maintaining a garden.
A short video demonstration:

[via CNET]
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Wooly Pockets are an interesting modular system for creating indoor and outdoor gardens. Constructed out of a soft, felt-like material made out of recycled plastic bottles, the pockets can be hung and stacked to create space-saving vertical wall gardens, and the flat syle allows for a more traditional flexible plant container. The material breathes, keeping roots healthy, and the Wooly Pockets come in an unlined version for the outdoors, and a lined version to keep indoor plants from leaking.

[via Better Living Through Design]

It really doesn’t get much more “green” or sustainable than this. The Build/Make/Craft/Bake blog has a tutorial on how to create little seed-starting planters out of eggshells. A simple but ingenious hack.
[via Curbly]

Cleaning the air with plants is not necessarily novel news, but a TED 2009 presentation has shown just how powerful this natural method can be. Kamal Meattle explained his experiment which used 3 plants known for their air detoxing capabilities to scrub up the polluted interior air at the Paharpur Business Centre and Software Technology Incubator Park in New Delhi, India. The results were nothing short of amazing.
The New York Times explains:
At about four plants per occupant (1200 plants in all), the building’s air freshened considerably, and the health and productivity results were staggering. Eye irritation dropped by 52 percent, [...]