Learn how C-PACE financing is transforming green roof adoption by enabling 100% project funding with long-term repayment through property taxes. Discover how this financing model reduces upfront costs, supports climate mandates, and helps developers integrate green roofs and stormwater management into commercial real estate projects.

As climate-driven flooding and heat intensify, insurers are increasingly focused on prevention. This article explores how green roofs, living architecture, and nature-based solutions can reduce risk, improve urban resilience, and help maintain affordable insurance by lowering exposure and vulnerability across communities.

The European Union has recently adopted a legislative framework capable of driving the transformation of its cities through widespread green infrastructure adoption. The challenge now lies in providing the regulatory certainty needed to scale up nature-based solutions and investments.  

In this episode, Sustainable Futures features green roof designer, advocate, and industry pioneer Linda S. Velazquez, founder and publisher of Greenroofs.com. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on leadership, legacy, and the next chapter of living architecture.

Discover how UNIQA’s award-winning green façade in Graz transforms a 1980s office building into a vibrant vertical ecosystem. This case study explores the project’s modular living wall design, innovative planting and irrigation systems, environmental benefits, and its role as a scalable model for urban green infrastructure retrofits across Europe.

This article explores the potential of growing fruiting crops beneath solar panels on green roofs, examining opportunities, challenges, and the role this innovative system could play in resilient urban food and energy systems.

Explore how hospitals can embrace biophilic design and nature-based solutions to improve patient recovery, staff well-being, and community health.

Join us for a conversation on the powerful impact nature has on our and our children’s development and mentality, and what Laura’s organization is doing to support citizens and educators in new and interesting ways to facilitate connections with the natural world.

This episode of Sustainable Futures: Designing Green Communities and Building features a conversation on water management, extreme heat, and the importance of connecting with natural spaces through green infrastructure.

This episode of Sustainable Futures Designing Green Communities and Buildings sits down with science communicator, policy advocate, and scientist Grace Wickerson of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Join for a conversation on extreme heat, the importance of science communication, and ways in which FAS is trying to improve our communities.

This article follows an earlier article in the LAM about the Green Infrastructure Foundation’s Green Infrastructure Charrette Program. Read about the Charrette held in Chicago and the plans to profoundly improve the neighborhood of West Woodlawn under the leadership of Blacks in Green.

Explore Taiwan's pioneering Life Cycle Carbon Database for landscaping (L-LCC), integrating embodied carbon and construction emissions analysis. Discover how this innovative system aligns with global net-zero goals by enabling sustainable design and reducing carbon footprints in urban landscapes.

Discover how 12 acres of native and sedum green roofs at Washington D.C.'s Munro Coast Guard Building exemplify sustainability. Learn about stormwater management, biodiversity, and economic benefits of green roofs thriving over a decade. Insightful for urban designers and policymakers.

Green roofs cover less than 2% of Vancouver’s roofscape, highlighting untapped potential for urban cooling and stormwater benefits. GRIN’s mapping technology can drive green infrastructure adoption across North America, fostering resilience and liveability. Support this transformative initiative through donations or by exploring its application in your city.

The City of Toronto welcomed more than 300 green infrastructure professionals on November 6 to 9 for the 20th anniversary of the CitiesAlive conference. The conference highlights green infrastructure design, research, policy and innovation from across the world. 

The article discusses the European Union's focus on advancing urban green infrastructure during the 2024-2029 term. It highlights key policies, such as the European Water Resilience Strategy and European Climate Adaptation Plan, emphasizing the importance of nature-based solutions like green roofs for addressing urban water stress, climate resilience, and public health.

This episode of Sustainable Futures, features Dr. Kathleen Wolf, a social scientist insert who has spent 3 decades exploring how urban nature impacts human health. She shares insights on integrating nature’s benefits into design, enhancing well-being through green spaces.

In this episode of Sustainable Futures, we feature Dr. Kathleen Wolf, a social scientist insert who has spent 3 decades exploring how urban nature impacts human health. She shares insights on integrating nature’s benefits into design, enhancing well-being through green spaces.

Join Sustainable Futures as we speak with Gail Vittori, Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, about sustainable healthcare, resilient building, and the transformative role of the natural world in enhancing our well-being.

We analyzed landcover change in Porto, Portugal, using satellite imagery from 2017 and 2022. K-Nearest Neighbor classification revealed increases in impervious surfaces and decreases in vegetation, highlighting opportunities for green roof interventions and the importance of climate justice considerations.