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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
GRHC Living Architecture Monitor Magazine- Fall 2024 Health Issue Now Available
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is excited to announce the release of its Fall 2024 edition, The Health Issue of the online Living Architecture Monitor magazine.
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.
World Green Infrastructure Award Winners Announced
World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) is pleased to announce the winners and honorable mentions of our prestigious award program.
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.
Positive Changes to New York Tax Abatement Program Finally Pass New York State Legislature
The Tax Abatement provides existing and new building owners with the opportunity to reduce property taxes in exchange for implementing a green roof.
The 20th Anniversary of CitiesAlive returns to Toronto with the City of Toronto as the Co-Host
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities the North American Industry Association for the green roof and wall industry is pleased to announce the City of Toronto as co-host of the 20th Anniversary CitiesAlive conference November 6 - 9, 2024. Register by July 31, 2024 to take advantage of the early bird rate.
The Green Wall Revolution: How Vertical Gardens are Purifying Urban Air
As cities grapple with increasing air pollution, these innovative gardens offer a promising solution.
Sara Hagos | Green Roof Professional (GRP)
Sara Hagos is an architectural representative at IKO Industries Ltd., holding a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Haromaya University and a MASc. with distinction from Building Science Graduate Program at British Columbia Institutes of Technology (BCIT). Her MASc. project studied various extensive green roof systems and the findings were published in the Building and Environment Journal and the 2022 Buildings XV International Conference organized by ASHRAE and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Sky High Sustainability: NASA Johnson’s Pocket Prairie Flourishes Atop Building 12
Buzzing with bees, baby birds, and wildflowers, the rooftop garden atop building 12 at Johnson Space Center in Houston reflects NASA’s commitment to environmental stewardship.
Group Vows to Turn Downtown Rooftops Into Vibrant Green Spaces
Downtown Neighbors Alliance to take the lead in green economy in Pittsburgh
Etera Hosts Green Roof Installation and Maintenance Professional Training During the Cascadia Grey to Green Conference
Etera will host the upcoming GRIMP Training at their nursery in Forest Grove, OR.