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DENTON TARVER: Today on Urban Gardener--
we're headed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to
see a living wall.
We have this really cool living wall.
It's different than a green wall because these plants are
actually alive up here.
It has soil, plants, and an entire system of life.
Instead of all these hard angles, you have free flow
from the plants.
To have a little bit of green in the office
makes everybody happy.
This looks like it's the conference room
or the board room.
Once you walk through, it has this reveal that
is this back wall.
Because you have all this light, this becomes a really
interesting experience and you feel a little bit more alive.
MALE SPEAKER: Here in the city, every leaf counts.
The more that you can bring into one space, the happier
the people are going to be.
These plants are living vertically in this wall.
And indoor garden is really different to maintain than an
outdoor garden, and that's one of the special challenges of
working in a city.
So we have plantings in places where
plantings never went before.
We have a watering system that waters these plants every day.
What that allows us to do is produce a very vibrant
arrangement of plants.
We can bend the rules in an indoor garden.
We don't have first frost.
We have stable temperatures throughout the year.
So it's something of a tropical environment.
We can do plants in here at times of the year where
outside they would simply fail.
There's ample oxygen exchange.
These plants have been selected because they are high
exchangers.
In the office, what we find is that that gas exchange is
really, really helpful.
It does help to clean the air and keep your eyes open.
DENTON TARVER: Less yawns.
MALE SPEAKER: Less yawns.
We all know how it can be [INAUDIBLE].
I think the plants go a long way to defuse the tensions
that we've probably all felt around the conference table.
There's something that happens on the inside.
You're in a space that's full of vibrant [INAUDIBLE].
DENTON TARVER: See you next time, on Urban Gardener.
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