This year #worldgreenroofday will be celebrated on Thursday 6th June 2024. The day follows #worldenvironmentday and is an opportunity for both professionals involved with the design and construction of green roofs and the general public to promote green roofs for #climateresilience. We are currently gathering posts and videos from across the globe to be shared as part of the #WGRD2024 campaign. If you are a company, consultant, designer, developer or involved in #realestate and want to play a role in #WGRD2024 please get in touch.
External link for World Green Roof Day
World Green Roof Day 2024 celebrations around the globe included open rooftop tours, experiences, smoothie bikes and a Roof to Roof Run. From Bangladesh to British Columbia, Australia to Amsterdam, Chicago to Czechia and Mexico to Milton Keynes, rooftops are one of the most valuable assets we have in common for people and nature. Thank you to everyone around the world that took part. #WGRD2024
How cool are #greenroofs!
PhD Candidate: Ecological Benefits of the Plant components of Green Architecture in the built environment, University of Cologne
This picture communicates all there is to say about heat reduction in buildings through green roofs. Thanks to Peter Kuesters
Keep an eye out for this soon to be #greenroof in Sarajevo
𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗙 𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗦 - 𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗝𝗘𝗩𝗢 Sa zadovoljstvom možemo reći da nas veseli činjenica da smo svakim danom sve bliže našem cilju - zelenom krovu. 🏡 🏦 Trenutna faza je postavljanje toplinske izolacije 𝗕𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗣𝗜𝗥 𝗙𝗔-𝗧𝗘 𝗙, te prvi sloj bitumenske hidroizolacije 𝗕𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗘𝗖 𝗞𝗦𝗔 𝗗𝗨𝗢. #bauder #roof #sarajevo #greenroof
The Green Roof Industry is growing in Toronto with new Strategy and a Bylaw. Read all about it here:
Read Shayna Stott's great article "Growing Green Roofs and an Industry" in the current issue of LAM at link below where she shares how the City of Toronto #GreenRoof Strategy and bylaw emerged from a need for environmental solutions and the successful advocacy efforts by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities - resulting in a thriving local industry with impacts beyond its borders. Next Level Stormwater Management is happy to be part of this exciting growth from beginning! #greeninfrastructure #landscapearchitecture #sustainablecities Greg van Riel
Great to see green roof tours continuing, here is a tour lead by our very own Dusty Gedge and the brilliant Blanche Cameron, for the students of the Welsh School of Architecture in London, UK. You may see in the photo that green roofs aren't always green, especially at this time of year, which is perfectly normal. #greenroofs
Associate Professor, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, Certified Passivhaus Designer, LEED Green Associate
I led an 'Intensive and extensive green roof' tour in London with some of our MSc students of the Welsh School of Architecture yesterday. The tour was hosted by Blanche Cameron of UCL and Dusty Gedge, the former President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB). The goal of the tour was to broaden our students' understanding of sustainability, moving beyond 'Carbon Tunnel Vision' to embrace a holistic approach that includes the role of 'Ecological Service Systems'.
From roof to café - The YMCA MILTON KEYNES uses produce from the roof as ingredients for delicious dishes served from their stunning, social enterprise café called HomeGround. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eHyiAKQ8 - follow the Green Roof Project on Instagram: @greenroofproject
A first little harvest from The Green Roof Project, 🫛 peas, lettuces, strawberries 🍓 nasturtiums 🌼 sweetpeas 🌸 all heading down from YMCA MILTON KEYNES #greenroof to their café #Homeground Sarah Jane Smyth #growingfood #buildinggardensinthesky #joy #sunshine #biodiversity #fresh
Have you heard about the children's book "Journey to the Green Roof"? Find our more about it below or order your very own copy here: https://lnkd.in/eNyc9k7t
📚 Green Roof Organisation (GRO) has collaborated with Tales from Mother Earth to create a beautiful book, "Journey to the Green Roof," aimed at educating children (and their families) about the benefits of green roofs. 🌟✨ Funded by GRO and GRO members, and wonderfully written and illustrated by Jenny and her team at Tales from Mother Earth, the book had expert input from Chris Bridgman and Dusty Gedge. All profits from the sales go into the GRO Educational Fund, supporting education within the green roof sector. 🎓🌱 "Journey to the Green Roof" is perfect for children aged 3 to 10, highlighting the benefits of living roofs from the perspective of insects. Follow Freya the hairy-footed flower bee and Sarah the European seven-spotted ladybird as they find food and shelter on a green roof. The book also includes a downloadable audio version and fun activities for kids. 🐝🐞🎧 Printed ethically using bio-inks and paper from World Lands Trust, this book is available to purchase online in English only. 🔗 Learn more and buy the book: https://lnkd.in/e5wPMGxt Book: https://lnkd.in/eNyc9k7t Let's inspire the next generation to embrace green roofs and sustainable living! 🌍💚 #greenroofs #childrensbooks #sustainability #education #talesfrommotherearth
Destination City: Visitor numbers to Square Mile public rooftop spaces surging, London, United Kingdom
Visitor numbers to the City of London's public roof gardens, terraces and viewing galleries continue to grow. Join us and enjoy these fantastic and inclusive, free to access public spaces, this Summer. #DestinationCity Read more here: https://bit.ly/4cEUqvL
Follow Alison Benjamin and her work at URBAN BEES LIMITED, encouraging solitary bees to the rooftops of London, United Kingdom.
Co-founder & operations director, Urban Bees | Rooftop rewilder | Best-selling author | Journalist | Speaker | Educator | APPG Bees and Pollinators advisor
So exciting to see the first Wool Carder bees of the year eight floors up in the City on my rewilded Bread Street rooftop, nurtured and loosely maintained by URBAN BEES LIMITED. Why were the bees there? To mate (we saw males and females), and to feed on the large patches of Lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina) we planted specially for them. Not only does this very drought tolerant plant provide nectar but the females will tease out the fibres from the velvety leaves ('carder' means to tease out fibres), roll it into a ball and fly home to use it to construct its nest. Usually the Lamb's ear flowers just as the Wool Carder bee emerges, but this year in London the flowers are almost over, and they've been feeding Buff-tailed bumblebees and honeybees instead. Luckily, the Wool Carder bees also seemed happy to forage on the Teucrium hircanicum 'Purple Tails' - another drought-tolerant plant flourishing on the rooftop. We saw them as part of the monthly pollinator survey conducted by Konstantinos Tsiolis for Pollinating London Together. By catching them and observing them more closely we could see the spikes at the end of the male Wool Carder bee's abdomen which he uses to fight off other males from the patch of Lamb's ear he has claimed as his mating territory. We're not sure where in the City they are nesting. They like cavities in old wood. More details to come... #bees #greeningcities #rewilding #biodiversity #sustainability
For World Green Roof Day 2024 Rooftop Revolution organised the inaugural Roof to Roof Run. An incredible event that is set to be even bigger next year. Check out this cool video of the event. Follow Rooftop Revolution to take part next year and be part of the event. #WGRD2024
😍 Nog even nagenieten! Wat was het ongelofelijk leuk om de 1e 𝗗𝗮𝗸 𝘁𝗼𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝗸𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽 te organiseren. Wat was het ongelofelijk leuk om mee te doen. Het enthousiasme spatte er vanaf bij de deelnemers. BrightVibes heeft dit fantastisch voor ons vastgelegd en dat willen wij dan nu ook graag met jullie delen. Want het gaat natuurlijk niet alleen om het lopen zelf maar juist ook om een stuk bewustwording. Er is zoveel (leuks) mogelijk op het dak! 🤝 Nogmaals dank aan DoubleTree by Hilton/Floris Licht voor hun gastvrijheid. NEMO voor het gebruik van hun dak. De Kids van Amsterdam en Cas van den Berge voor de muzikale omlijsting. En last but not least alle lof voor onze partners (zie comments). Dit jaar hebben we het bewust klein gehouden maar volgend jaar pakken we het groter aan, dat beloven we. Kijk hier voor een uitgebreid verslag en meer foto's: https://bit.ly/3zq9sXJ #daktotdakloop #rooftoprevolution #groendaken #multifunctioneledaken