After reading SuperForester Patricia’s excellent post the other day on SEGlet’s push toward facilitating the creation of green rooftops, I was reminded of a green rooftop movement of another sort; a green rooftop movement that actually moves.
Created by Marco Cosio as an attempt to reconnect urban communities in a playful and practical way, Bus Roots is a project that reclaims forgotten space by creating green rooftop gardens on public city buses. As the project posits…
A public transit bus has a surface of 340 ft2. The MTA fleet has around 4,500 buses.
If we grew a garden on the roof of every one of the 4,500 buses in the MTA bus fleet, we would have 35 acres of new rolling green space in the city.
The equivalent to Four Bryant Parks.
It’s an incredible idea, and although my first thoughts were something along the lines of, “wouldn’t that be a lot of weight to put on the top of a bus?!”, it seems like the project has been working swimmingly! The prototype has been installed on a BioBus in New York and has been growing for five months, traveling distances as far as Ohio!
What a win! For more information, please be sure to check out it’s website, here.
Hope you are all having an excellent day,
Carla
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