What year in the future do you think we all have to worship that thing?!?

All the free range trees in the drawings are silently seeping tears for their caged brethren.

I don't care what the awful people say on the other side of the link. You are beautiful to me, Giant Tree-Powered Machine.

Is it okay that I want to live in a giant glass cube suspended in the middle of that thing?

hot.

Love it.

Urban Ecosystem's website is next to unnavigable.

I know that solar panels provide energy, but what are the trees for? More oxygen? Couldn't we have just planted more trees the old-fashioned way? Maybe I'm missing something here, but I couldn't find an answer on their ridiculous site anyway.

@Simon Piper: They could, but then it wouldn't be as cool-looking...and they'd get less press.

They're just using the trees. Environmental sluts.

I got your renewable energy RIGHT HERE.

@Atrocious: Don't worry, the Tree Liberation Front is on the case. Even if firebombs aren't the *best* solution...

Where's Bruce Dern and the three little droids when you really need them?

It's the Nazi party of the tree world. Sitting up there so high n mighty on their solar powered throne. The others lined up in silent submission. Sickening... Beautiful...

It's nice looking. I wonder if a city like detroit could utilize things like this? We have lots of brown fields, and the thing could grow switch grass or corn, or pulp trees. Trees are answer to global warming. We need to grow hundreds of billions of them as crops, like coconut palms. We need to harvest them and then sink them to the bottom of the ocean, in a very deep trench, locking all the CO2 up under all that water. And, rich governments could pay poor tropical climate countries in the form of carbon tax money.

right now those trees are in pots though. something tells me they need/want more soil over time - how's that gonna work?

What makes it a 'machine'?
-Kle.