This article explores how cities like Portland can achieve Project Drawdown’s 9% green roof coverage target by 2050 through innovative economic strategies, public-private partnerships, and workforce development. Scaling green roofs transforms urban infrastructure, delivers climate benefits, and generates local jobs while addressing market limitations and the climate crisis.

Explore ways you may receive the most health and well-being benefits of your time in living architecture and natural green spaces, and learn about outstanding projects that can deliver these health benefits.

Climate change intensifies storms, overwhelming stormwater infrastructure, causing flooding, property damage, and loss of life. Solutions include green and blue roofs, and "sponge cities" to improve stormwater management.

This article begins to make the case for increased public policy and private investment on a wide range of approaches to producing food in our urban environments in the face of climate change threats to food security. 

This article explores developments like modified native plant species, blue-green roof systems, bio-solar roof technology, slope stabilization, new plant species, maintenance technology, and innovative green infrastructure policies. These innovations aim to enhance sustainability, stormwater management, and biodiversity in urban environments.

The article delves into the evolving challenges of urban water management amid climate change and urban development, advocating for an integrated approach that treats stormwater as a valuable resource, emphasizing adaptation and integrated and holistic approaches to managing urban water.

Discover the importance of biodiversity and how to reconnect with it in your living architecture projects. Learn practical steps to incorporate biodiversity and enhance the value of your designs for a sustainable future.

Discover five somewhat surprising reasons we are not ‘separate’ from nature, but deeply interconnected, and how this knowledge can help us improve the design of our buildings and communities.

Ten diverse innovations in living architecture - ranging from technologies and research to project certification and policy - plus trends and recommendations for future endeavors. 

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities’ founder, Steven Peck discusses addressing water management in a holistic manner in development projects.

The widespread use of living architecture can help us build more bridges between the artificial and natural worlds, opening up new possibilities for urbanites to connect to nature and support conservation.

Over the past 20 years, a wide range of economic, social and ecological benefits have resulted from integrating agriculture and architecture into new and existing building projects. This is a quick review of eight main benefits of these projects with examples from North America and around the world.

Some of the hard lessons of the pandemic hold promise for the green roof and wall industry, and for society as a whole, and may help designers respond to the new wave and waves to come.

In densely populated cities, land values are often at a premium, and land for parks or urban farms is often too expensive to provide. This makes the provision of roof parks an opportunity for building owners, planners, and politicians to accomplish multiple goals. A review of parks like the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco demonstrates how converting air space over infrastructure into roof parks should become more commonplace.

Climate change (and associated weather impacts) is causing milder winters and as a result, increasing tick populations, particularly in Canada and the Northeastern US. Ticks are showing up not only in the countryside but also in urban areas.

As we all continue to adapt to the negative impacts of the Pandemic, many of us have instinctively sought refuge in green space. City parks report unprecedented levels of visitors, campsites in regional parks are already booked solid, rental cottages in short supply and even gardening supply sales have boomed.