In Georgetown, the largest freestanding Green Wall in the Seattle area stands as a banner to community health in action, hiding an ugly concrete barrier. The Green Wall is not only a successful, sustainable structured landscape ‘intervention’ in its inherent functionality, but delivers benefits that satisfy the goals articulated in the participatory design process.

Living architecture also offers us an opportunity to right historical environmental injustices and meaningfully engage the communities in which these projects are built. We can leverage green roof and wall investments to achieve not just environmental and economic goals - but also social ones.