Urban Farming Pioneer Ben Flanner to Present their Latest Rooftop Farm at CitiesAlive 2022
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is pleased to announce that Ben Flanner, co-founder and CEO of Brooklyn Grange, will be speaking about the new food producing green roof at the Javits Center during CitiesAlive, in Philadelphia at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel from Sunday October 16th to 19th. Brooklyn Grange is one of the leading rooftop farming businesses located in New York City.
Ben Flanner is a leader when it comes to rooftop farming. His groundbreaking model adapted green roof technology to cultivate vegetables, which has led to several successful new rooftop farms across New York, providing cities with green jobs and a novel way to access fresh produce.
Mr. Flanner and Brooklyn Grange run the new farm on the Javits Center, a larger than life convention center in NYC. The Javits Center has a 200,000 square foot rooftop that includes a working farm and orchids which produces over 40,000 pounds of produce each year. This 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, 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 11.5 Continuing Education Credits for ASLA, AIA, BOMI, IIBEC, 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.
From the Living Architecture Monitor
