World Cup green roofs - Group A

Here is Group A. Group A features the Brazil's modern splendor captured in a time-worn fashion, Mexico's towering jewel and the beautiful unexpected of Cameroon. Green roofs are still relatively new worldwide, so some of the World Cup participants don't have any green roofs listed (or, easily found) on the web. Like...

Croatia

There are some green roofs in Croatia, like atop the Zamet Center. Unfortunately, I scoured hundreds of images, none of which showed the green roof!



Brazil

Mexico

Cameroon

In Honor of the World Cup...

...I feel it's my duty to spread the word about this incredible green roof soccer field. So that makes TWO that we've profiled this year. Do I see a connection? The first was in Slovenia, the second France. Does that mean you need to build a green roofed soccer field to have a shot at World Cup glory?

-In Vancouver, a few urban food security projectssplit $100,000 to do a slew of cool things, including expanding composting programs.

-You never know when a mayor makes an announcement for his/her city to be the "biggest _______" (<----insert cool/trendy initiative here), but it looks like Indianapolis is giving this infill urban gardening thing a try. Baltimore too, has changed it's zoning codes for only the third time in city history, to create space for urban farms to grow.

-Lastly, via City Farmer, I stumbled upon this fantastic dissertation by entitled: Urban Agriculture as Revolution. Grab your favorite beverage, it's a good but long (over 200 pages) read.