Eco Walls
Eco Walls, based in Bordentown, NJ, is expanding the green footprint in urban environments. Where new construction in urban environments often means losing greenspace, Eco Walls reverses that trend using living walls. They grow their plants right in their greenhouse in a proprietary blend of soilless medium design to wick and lock in moisture while providing optimum levels of oxygen, and beneficial microbes ...

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A Tokyo Living Wall

Here’s another form of this eco-friendly wall art. Hokkaido Sanyu Corp made River Re Wall which is wall art made out of mostly moss.

They have an irrigation system put into the wall.. so just plug it in and you’re good to go. Japan trends indicates they go for $7,000-26,000. You’ll notice that the one on the left actually has rocks built right into it. It’s a nice touch to a rock wall.

These walls are probably pre-grown with moss before they’re sold which may help explain that really high cost. It looks to be the Rolex of living walls apparently. It’s a good look, but I couldn’t help thinking of a super cheap method of achieving something remarkably similar.

It’s the moss paintings.. they’re surprisingly easy to do. What you need is a clump of moss, beer and a blender. Blend the moss and the beer in a blender, then you can literally paint the mixture onto the wall.

The above looks a bit raw in my opinion, but you can see how it works. That art was done by Edina Tokodi from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. If you used stencils and painted the moss mixture onto the wall, you could really make it look impressive. The purpose of the beer is to give it the food/nutrients it needs. Does it look good? What do you think?