Exchanging Spaces

River of Flowers supports urban design that incorporates wildflowers and sutainable food growing projects. We advocate that every time a new building is constructed, the ground space lost to wildflowers should be replaced by an exchange - by planting a wildflower green or 'brown' roof, wall  or any available outside space.

See Portland, Oregon for a wonderful example of green awareness in a city. The photograph shows the wildflower roof at Bere Architects.

The UK's own green roof specialists

Dusty Gedge, Duncan Kramer, Dan Monck and John Little's innovation, four green-roof campaigners convert disused shipping containers into green-roofed structures in The Guardian. Read the full article here