Ben Flanner, CEO of Brooklyn Grange to Speak at CitiesAlive 2022
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) is pleased to announce a new podcast episode featuring Ben Flanner, Co-Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Grange, who will be speaking at CitiesAlive 2022 and sharing his new rooftop farm and orchard project at the Javits Convention Center in NYC. This podcast, Sustainable Futures: Designing Green Communities and Buildings: A Living Architecture Monitor Podcast, features different experts working in the field of green infrastructure design and implementation. This episode, “Bringing Agriculture Home to the Roofs”, discusses the business of urban agriculture, how the Brooklyn Grange weathered the pandemic, and how a rooftop urban food revolution can help improve our communities and the people who live there.
Food security is one of the most pressing issues our communities face. Accessing fresh, healthy, affordable food can be a challenge for many families and food miles can be a tremendous contributor to net emissions. Ben Flanner is a leader when it comes to rooftop farming. Brooklyn Grange has designed and managed fivel successful rooftop farms across New York, including the Javits Center.
The Javits Center includes a working rooftop farm and orchids, which produces over 40,000 pounds of produce each year. This 200,000 square foot rooftop takes advantage of the large building, has an integrated water management system, amenity spaces, and produces a wide variety of fresh and local produce that it uses in its kitchens.
Mr. Flanner will be speaking about the project on October 17 at CitiesAlive on how the Javits Center implemented green infrastructure in an unconventional way, alongside Jacqueline Tran, Director of Energy & Sustainability at the Javits Center, and Dustin R. Partridge, Ph.D., Director of Conservation & Science.
Join Green Roofs for Healthy Cities at CitiesAlive 2022 from October 16-19, a multidisciplinary conference focused on innovative green roof designs, groundbreaking policies, new research, and the best products and services in the green infrastructure industry. This year the conference is focused on water management in a changing climate.
Be sure to book your conference hotel rooms before they sell out! The conference is pending approval for 18.5 Continuing Education Credits for ASLA, AIA, BOMI, IIBEC, CLNA, and GRP.
About Us:
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is a non-profit 501(c)(6) professional industry association working to grow the green roof and wall industry throughout North America since 1999. Our mission is to develop and protect the market by increasing the awareness of the economic, social, and environmental benefits of green roofs, green walls, and other forms of living architecture through education, advocacy, professional development, and celebrations of excellence. We offer The Living Architecture Monitor, online magazine for free. We also provide The Living Architecture Academy, another online resource dedicated to bringing you the best, most up to date professional training information on design, installation and maintenance practices.
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