The picture shows a green house in Madrid, part of the Caixa Forum. It is so simple to get green in a grey city.

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Do you know Jaime Lerner? No? He is a real hero, at least in Latin America. His credo: “You get creative when you take a zero from your budget, but sustainability starts when you take two zeros from your budget.” Read the article in  The Guardian 2009

Get some insight in his doing from an early article written by pionier Donella Meadows „He provided 1.5 million tree seedlings to neighborhoods for them to plant and care for. “There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree,” says Lerner. The article : Making a solid case for better urban planning, by Donella Meadows

Green Buildings are much more about certificates in Europe. www.green-building.org, but there are also some heros: Richard Reynolds is a guerrilla gardener from London and he has written a Manifest about Guerilla Gardening. More in the German article – please switch language.