📰 "Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream for Brazil's favelas. Not true!"

🗒 "And it was cheap. Because of the bidim and the vinyl sheets used as waterproof screening (as opposed to the traditional asphalt blanket), Cassiano's green roofs cost just 5 Brazilian reais, or $1, per square foot. A conventional green roof can cost as much as 53 Brazilian reais, or $11, for the same amount of space."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/25/g-s1-28783/brazil-health-heat-garden-roof

#Brazil #solarpunk #citygreenery #goodnews #happynews

📰 "Vienna is turning parking spaces into parks and it’s changing the city"

🗒 "The city has more than 350 projects underway to replace parking spots with green infrastructure and public areas. That includes a major street reimagined as a Dutch-style cycling corridor, where 140 parking spaces were swapped for nearly a mile of bike lanes and plants."

https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/02/vienna-is-turning-parking-spaces-into-parks-and-its-changing-the-city/

#vienna #citygreenery #solarpunk #econews #bikes #bicycles #walkability