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Plant-Covered Walls Can Combat Urban Heat and Help Biodiversity
Plant-covered facades help cool urban areas and provide habitats for plants, birds, insects and other organisms.
ZinCo Canada Revolutionizes Sustainable Energy with Vertical Solar Arrays
ZinCo Canada, a pioneer in green roofing technology, proudly announces the launch of its innovative Vertical Solar Array system.
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Joins 50 + Organizations in Supporting Federal Policy Agenda for Tackling Extreme Heat
Announcement Comes as 2024 is Officially Declared Hottest Year on Record
How Green Buildings can Reduce Retail Companies’ Emissions
Green buildings are designed to minimise environmental impact throughout their lifecycle, from construction to demolition.
Climate Change Could Overwhelm Our Sewers – Here’s How Green Infrastructure Could Help
Instead of relying solely on traditional pipes and tanks to remove rainwater, green infrastructure solutions manage rain where it falls.
Biophilic Design: Bringing the Natural Outdoors Indoors into Modern Architecture
Biophilic design has become the signature of modern architecture, blending the natural world with our built environments.
How Biophilic Design Promotes Healing in Healthcare Environments
In recent years, the concept of biophilic design has gained significant attention in the field of architecture, with its potential to create healing environments that promote the wellbeing of patients, staff, and visitors.
With More Heat Waves in Our Future, Researchers Say We Need to Look at Clean Cooling
Climate change is making heat waves more frequent and intense
Pascale Sablan’s Powerful New Book Celebrates the Greatness of Contemporary Women and Designers of Color
Award-winning architect Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP, and CEO of Adjaye Associates New York Studio, will release her first book, GREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture, early next year.
Celebrate Nature in the City Week: A Unique Opportunity to Explore Toronto’s Green Spaces on November 3 - 9, 2024
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities and the City of Toronto are thrilled to announce Nature in the City Week, running from November 3-9, 2024.
Rasmus Astrup, Partner, SLA Announced as Keynote Speaker Nov. 6 CitiesAlive 2024 in Toronto
World Renown Landscape Architect To Speak About Bringing Nature Back to Cities
Green Stormwater Facilities Result in Improved Water Quality and a Decreased Carbon Footprint
Rain gardens, green roofs, and bioretention cells can be beneficial alternatives to stormwater ponds
Enhancing Urban Development
Bauder explains how green roofs can help meet biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements, ensuring habitats for wildlife are left in a measurably enhanced condition compared to their state before development.
Green Roofs Provide Coverage From New York to the Caribbean
One innovative solution to this problem is the integration of green spaces into urban landscapes, with green roofs emerging as a particularly promising option.
Green Roof Advocate Dusty Gedge on Boosting Urban Biodiversity
A number of experts at the World Green Infrastructure Congress discussed their ideas for strengthening urban biodiversity, among them Dusty Gedge.
Evergreen Infrastructure Leads the Way in Urban Revitalisation with Visionary Green Roof Installation at Federation Square
Evergreen Infrastructure has collaborated with Modscape and The Greenwall Company to install an innovative green roof at the Greenline Project Hub located at Federation Square.
Green Space on Roof of Pier 57 in Manhattan Helps Combat Urban Heat Island Effect
Green rooftop spaces, like at Pier 57 on Manhattan's West Side, or the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, are champions of change, climate change, that is.
The Case for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure
Resilient infrastructure must not only withstand climate impacts, but also be able to recover quickly after disruptions.
Canada’s Only Rooftop Garden on Top of a Supermarket Keeps on Producing
From the parking lot, you might not know that atop of the IGA Extra Famille Duchemin, in Ville-Saint-Laurent, sits a 29,000-square-foot garden.
CitiesAlive 2024: 20th Anniversary Conference Unveils Six Exclusive Masterclasses on Green Infrastructure
This year’s conference features an exciting lineup of six new masterclasses.