Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Launches the Spring 2026 Business Case Issue of Living Architecture Monitor Magazine

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is pleased to announce the launch of the Living Architecture Monitor magazine Spring Equinox Business Case Issue. Writers in this issue explore multiple public and private values of green roof technology. The issue underscores the importance of designers factoring in a broad range of benefits in support of implementing projects, and the need for policy makers and insurers to further scale up living architecture to prepare cities for an unstable future. Read the free Living Architecture Monitor, here. Note: Call for papers for CitiesAlive New York City ends on April 15, 2026. Visit CitiesAlive for more information.

Articles you will find in the Spring 2026 Business Case Issue include:

• How to Finance Green Roofs with C-PACE by Michele Pitale

• Five Reasons Why Proactive Green Roof Maintenance Saves Time, Reduces Costs and Delivers Long Term Value by Katina Bentley, Recover Green Roofs

• Soak It Up: Building Value With Stormwater Infrastructure on a Historical Boston Rooftop by Pete Ellis and Brendan Shea, Roofterra

• A Summary of Green Roof Cost Benefit Analyses From Around the World by Eleanor Chong, Madison Munro, Ann-Sophie Raedler, and Steven W. Peck

• Why Insurers Have a Critical Stake in Greener Buildings and Landscapes by Nicholas Jeanmart, Insurance Europe

• Red Gold on the Rooftops: Saffron Production on Green Roofs, an Emerging Economic Opportunity by Reece L. Bailey and Jennifer Bousselot, Ph.D, Colorado State University

• Addressing the Costs of Extreme Heat Through Policy Entrepreneurship by Grace Wickerson, Federation of American Scientists

• SolaGreen®: The Perfect Union of Solar Power and Green Roofs by Jodi Griffin, LiveRoof Global

• And more!

Thank You to Our Advertisers Who Make the LAM Possible

• The City of Toronto

• LiveRoof Global

• American Hydrotech/A Sika Company

• Permaloc

• rooflite

• Jakob Rope Systems USA

• Jelitto Perennial Seeds

• Soprema Canada/USA

• W.R. Meadows

• Apex Green Roofs

• Material Masters

• Omni Ecosystems

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Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is a non-profit industry association dedicated to developing the green roof and wall industry in North America. GreenRoofs.org 

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From the Living Architecture Monitor