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Dear visitors

The FBB - Event in Ditzingen, February 14th will be the next Green roof Conference  event in Germany.  Have a look to the details.

The registration for Baltimore (US) in April is open;

(see the button on the right side).

Visit the added webpage from Italy, called “Skygarden”. Looking forward for a good cooperation in future.

The World Green Roof Infrastructure Network support the World Green Roof Congress in London. Feel free to send in contribution! For details visit the webpage livingroofs.org or click on the button right below.

The interest in Green roof technology inceases again in Germany. The Journal “Garten und Landschaft ” published in January a special issue about “Eco values”. The “Deutsches Architektenblatt” opens in January with “Energy and Buildings” and it shall follow special issues all over 2008.
The environmental academics takes a look into Biosciences .

Energy and Green roofs the guiding topic in 2008 - we are looking forward to an exiting discussion all over the year!

Manfred Köhler

Delegates all over the world had discussed climate change on the Bali Conference. The Green Roof Technology is one answer to fight against climate change. It is a small but effective method. Green roofs can be installed all over the world. It is a simple but effective method. Millions of decentralized green roofs are a well improved answer.

Let us work for this vision also in 2008 - The Green Roof Year!

Comming up 16th to 18th September 2008 the story of World Green Roof Congresses continues. A long time is gone since the event in Basel. Livingroofs.org and Ciria had posted the information for the World Green Roof Congress London.

Green roof technology increases in Shanghai. At Tonji as well as Jao Tong University colleagues are working with green roof technology. Aims are long lasting green roofs and testing suitable plant species. At the Expo an important Green roof event will take place in near future.

Demonstration green roof units comes also to other Cities in China, e.g. Wuxi and Wuhan.

About 300 contributions had been sent in for the Conference in Erfurt in May next year. The section of Green roofs and living walls will give an overview of ongoing researches in biodiversity. More information see web page .

The Asia Pacific weeks, was held September 11.th - 23th (see: www.apwBerlin.de). The Urban Sustainibility Conference was one mayor event, held in the City hall of Berlin. Green roofs had been focused in contributions of our members Manfred Köhler and Wolfgang Ansel. Very good response about this topic had been given by several speaker, like Jerome Ringo (from California) as well by the Vice Minister for Construction and Urban Planning, P.R. China, he see a challenge in “Green Architecture”.

Green roofs and water management had been discussed in a seperate forum on September 12th to 14th. Project examples of Berlin - Potsdamer Platz, a root sewer system inside a residential block as well the famous building of Physics in Berlin Adlershof had been visited as special events of this meeting.

The first video conference of WGRIN enthusiats had been held on saturday 9th September. Next video meeting will be take place on October 27th. Topics details in membership structures and of course our upcomming World Congresses in 2009 and 2010.

Working groups had been established. We invite all national Green roof activists to become members of our growing green roof family.