The Green Prophet has interviewed Wassim Melki, owner of the company StudioInvisible, (pronounced in French) who is trying to push the local authorities to mandate rooftop gardens across Beirut. The plan is to turn this:
Into this:
StudioInvisible plans to implement this project by way of a “municipal decree”, mandating all residents to grow a few trees on their roofs, or through some other form of authority. This is necessary, Melki explains, lest the project be doomed to failure, something he laments is “very common” in Lebanon.
The studio suggests offering “tax reductions” or other benefits to those buildings that have well-maintained rooftop gardens. It urges politicians to have the foresight to see the possible political advantages they could glean from implementing this initiative, being able to say that they literally “turned Beirut green”.
That’s a very nice initiative, I really hope it works out, even though I’m sure that by the time it makes it to be a law it would’ve been distorted beyond recognition..
Nice catch !
Thanks – I have very little faith that it would make it out of the nice Photoshop image yet alone even become law.
It would be something though if it did happen.