The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Dear friends, I’d like to share some informations with you to help you to better understand the role that nature plays, to help to create a better environment and improve the quality of life through greenery. In a time of climate change is important that everyone of us does posivive actions. And planting more trees [...]

Woow! The future is really bright! If China is coming on board to fight pollution and climate change then the world is really changing in better! Here are a couple of articles, pretty long but worth reading and, of course, there will also be green roofs! Yeah!!!       =========================== China to start work [...]

My friend Anna Asked me the following question: “Not long ago I read an “eco-thriller” that implied that the global warming situation stems not from Carbon dioxide exhaustion, but from “urban heating”. Yesterday one of Sweden´s biggest newspaper had this article by Björn Lomborg: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=578&a=715912 basically saying that there are ways to cool down big [...]

Arkansas’s KTHV reports that over the past two weeks, workers in Little Rock have been using a crane to hoist 90 species of plants and more than four truckloads of soil atop the former president’s library and museum. They are transforming what had been a plain looking roof into a garden surrounding Clinton’s penthouse apartment. [...]

Harnessing wind power for use in residential applications has been a challenge, but a new breed of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) from Helix Wind offers a promising design that may change the way we do wind at home.  The Helix Wind Savonious 2.0 uses a unique rotor capable of capturing omni-directional winds to provide quieter, [...]

Woow! They are popping up like… hum.. how do you say in english? Not sure…  Anyway, another Indian building with terrace gardens, Mumbai’s first major commercial skyscraper, one of Mumbai’s greenest skyscrapers. According to the architect’s website: “The 60-story Elphinstone Mills complex in downtown Mumbai includes Class A office space and a pedestrian friendly retail [...]

We have just discovered a building in progress in Mumbai that calls itself the greenest of all the buildings in the Maximum City of 13 million people.  Renderings of the 27-story Antilla building (see link below) depict a highrise that couldn’t be greener. It’s covered in foliage, with living walls enclosing all four sides, hanging [...]

Chicago has introduced a ‘cool roofs’ grant program to reduce urban warming, which occurs when heat is absorbed by pavement and other dark surfaces. The program comes two years after the Department of Environment launched its Green Roof program, aimed at improving water quality by filtering pollutants from rainfall with rooftop plants and soil. ABC [...]

What a good news! On Saturday the 13th October Alan Saunders, the host of ABC Radio program By Design, interviewed Christian Werthmann about Green Roofs. Associate Professor in Landscape Architetecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Wertmann is also author of Green Roof – A Case Study. The entire program is now available online at [...]