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Cyclist ride in front of a bus shelter with flowers planted on the roof.

A Dutch city is turning bus shelters into bee sanctuaries

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More than 300 bus shelters have been transformed into bee-friendly green hubs to support biodiversity in the Dutch city of Utrecht.

Gardens blanket the roofs of shops in Copenhagen.

It’s not just the bikes — green rooftops help make Copenhagen the world’s greenest city

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William McDonough: Godfather of Green

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Cool Fix for a Hot Planet- NYC Blues

New York City is looking to use blue to get green. Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed plan relies on environmentally friendly green and blue roofs to prevent storm and wastewater from overflowing into the East and Hudson rivers.

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William McDonough

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William McDonough is a grand old man in the young field of green architecture. In the 1970s, he built the first “green roof” in America – a corporate headquarters with a meadow on top – and now works on green projects all over the world.

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