Long relegated to corporate atriums and hotel lobbies, living green walls, or vertical gardens, are becoming increasingly popular in homes. Proponents of the lush walls of plants say they provide ...
Green walls are regularly used throughout Europe and Asia, and in Tokyo they are considered more valuable than green roofs for cooling the city. But the vegetated green wall is still new to the ...
This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. There’s a reason that green walls show up most often in ...
You may have heard about green walls or even seen a few. Also called living walls, live walls, eco-walls and vertical gardens, these structures are essentially walls covered in vertically grown plants ...
Green roofs are a growing trend in the U.S., with buildings as diverse as the California Academy of Sciences, Minneapolis’ Target Center and the New York Mets’ Citi Field adopting roofs topped with ...
Longwood Gardens is set to unveil North America’s largest green wall installation tomorrow! The extraordinary vegetated wall is installed at the historic garden’s new East Conservatory Plaza. The ...
Facades are a building’s most visible element, and adding plants offers entirely new dimensions of texture, symbolism, and seasonal dynamism. As French botanist and green-wall pioneer Patrick Blanc ...
Living green has become a way of life. Raising the thermostat in summer, lowering it in winter. Recycling, turning off lights and installing low-flow shower heads. Whenever you can, you try to live a ...
David Razmadze, a computer science student, and Hannah West, a public health and business major, noticed a lack of green space in urban environments, which causes a dramatic spike in carbon dioxide ...
Desertification made worse by climate change is outpacing a U.N.-backed project to protect millions of people in Africa’s Sahel region. Few climate adaption projects can match the sheer ambition — or ...
Scientists aim to reclaim thousands of hectares of desert using cyanobacteria that can stabilise sand and create foundation ...