The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

From Ecogizmo By Jeff Salton You only have to watch a TV show in which the camera flies over any major city to realize the numbers of ugly, stark, gray, flat roofs that occupy millions of square feet but contribute nothing to the environment. It’s almost an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ attitude we [...]

Chicago Tops North America for Most Green Roof Installed! Toronto, Canada – May 20, 2009 – Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the green roof industry association is pleased to announce the results from its Fourth Annual Industry Survey of Corporate Members completed green roof projects in 2008. The survey indicates a US growth rate of [...]

Nursery & Garden Industry Australia (NGIA) hosted the inaugural Urban GreenScapes Symposium on 17 February 2009 to unveil the benefits of plants and green-life in the urban landscape and to encourage collaboration between all stakeholder groups to drive unity of message and develop awareness to create greener Australian cities. At the link below you can [...]

by Mahesh Basantani India is well-known for delicious food, and the kitchen is considered to be a sacred place in any Indian home. And now India has something else to be proud of: the world’s largest solar kitchen. The system has been installed as a collaboration between the Academy for a Better World and Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, [...]

Beautiful article by Tim Wood, Green Roof Product Manager at Permanite Engineered Roofing Systems, that looks at the role that Green Roofs have to tackle climate change.   GREEN ROOFS – INCREASING OUR GREEN FOOTPRINT In the race to address a shortage in affordable housing, and with a very visible nod to the growing problem [...]

by Antonia Halse (*) The re-branded London Festival of Architecture with its calendar of over 600 events has now ended. The Grow Bags: Urban Allotments installation, produced by What If Projects, showcased a ‘formerly inaccessible and run-down plot of housing estate land transformed into a beautiful oasis of green. Seventy 1/2 tonne bags of soil [...]

Beautiful article about a great project that is happening now at Melbourne University! Fantastic! “Researchers at the University of Melbourne’s Burnley campus are examining the suitability of Australian native plants in ‘green roofs’; shallow rooftop gardens which are becoming increasingly popular internationally for their environmental and energy saving benefits. Green roofs have amazing potential but [...]

A really good article that was on the Times last Saturday. I post the link as it is pretty long and with many links, but it is really worth reading! Enjoy! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4225138.ece

Rainbow World Fund is partnering with CARE on this project. The Haiti Urban Garden Project seeks to improve the food supply and income-earning potential for struggling families in this devastated region of the country. Targeted households will use composted waste to grow small vegetable gardens. Located in backyards, on rooftops and even front porches, these [...]

A new program in an Indian slum aims to create a “culinary park network” on rooftops, as well as teach residents healthy cooking and proper nutrition. The program, established in Hyderabad, the capital city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Is based on the work of Erik Sumanis, co-director of the “Base of the [...]