Interesting idea, with some cool results, if you don’t mind having to prune the bus stop.
High-tech horticulture: Grow your own home
A bus stop that grows its own foliage as shade? A children’s playground, made entirely from trees? A shelter made from living tree roots that could provide natural protection against earthquakes in California?
“Eco-architecture” may sound like a Buck Rogers vision of an ecologically-sustainable future, but that future is now thanks to the guidance of Tel Aviv University Professors Yoav Waisel and Amram Eshel. The concept of shaping living trees into useful objects known as tree shaping, arborsculpture, living art or pooktre isn’t new. But scientists are now ready to use this concept as the foundation of a new company that will roll out these structures worldwide.
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/high-tech-horticulture-grow-your-own-home-17197.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080821164300.htm
