Architecture For The Planet - Green Bridges

Green bridges are amazing architectural structures in the natural landscape built over roads to allow animals cross safely to the other side.  They have soil, grass and vegetation on top to provide suitable habitat for a range of different species: deers, elks, mooses, bears and wolves. In Banff National Park in Canada, animals have used the six overpasses and 35 underpasses more than 200,000 times since 1996.

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Highway A50, Netherlands (Photo by Niels Verheul)

Banff, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Joel Sartore.)

France

via Tomasz Pacan

via Grist List

http://grist.org/list/these-beautiful-bridges-are-just-for-animals/

via The World Geography

http://www.theworldgeography.com/2012/06/unusual-bridges-for-animals-wildlife.html

via Lauri Klein

http://www.loodusajakiri.ee/eesti_loodus/EL/vanaweb/0106/lauri.html

Gardens In Concrete Jungles

via Enpundit

Fancy having a garden on your roof? Why not having a small plantation on your house's wall? Patrick Blanc - Paris-based botanist and designer - is the author of impressive vertical gardens - natural installations made of different species of moss, clover and flowers that cover walls of French buildings. They are kept fresh and green by a specially constructed system of water circulation. It is an innovative and quirky solution that brings nature back to cities. Patrick was commissioned to design his vertical garden in London. British TV made a short program about his work which tells a bit more about the man and portrays him as a very charismatic and likable person.