Gray Slums of Brazil Turn Green with Rooftop Garden Project in Full Bloom

From the rooftop of a Rio de Janeiro slum, amid sheet after sheet of corrugated iron, one man reclines amid succulents and ficus. His name is Luis Cassiano Silva, and he is the progenitor of the Teto Verde Favela, or Green Roofs Favela initiative, described by one academic as an exercise in “insurgent citizenship.” Rio’s […] The post Gray Slums of Brazil Turn Green with Rooftop Garden Project in Full Bloom appeared first on Good News Network.

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