Green Roof Safari
A green roof is a building roof covered with vegetation and sometimes also utilizing some form of green technology, such as solar panels or a photovoltaic module. Green Roof Safari is the brainchild of two green roof experts, Christine Thüring, and Jörg Breuning.The first two six-day tours are scheduled for September, 2008, and are limited to 30 guests per trip. The safari begins in Frankfurt, Germany and ends in Zurich, Switzerland. The cost of $3800 per person includes hotels, breakfasts, site visits, documentation, ground tranportation and city taxes. Participants must arrange and pay for their own travel arrangements to and from the safari.
Jörg Bruening has worked in the German green roof industry for over 25 years; in 1998 he co-founded Green Roof Service, LLC to service the increasing American market. Christine Thüring, a Swiss-Canadian, has a Masters in Horticulture from Penn State University's Centre for Green Roof Research; in 2005 she helped organize the World Green Roof Congress in Basel, Switzerland. More information on Thüring can be found at her website, Chlorophyllocity.
The safari tours travel through Darmstadt and Stuttgart, Germany, and Basel and Zurich, Switzerland. The itinerary includes visits to at least twenty greenroof installations, meetings with local policy makers, designers and researchers, along with fun cultural expeditions to places like the Black Forest and the Lindt chocolate factory. Time is also allotted for independent exploration time. Participants will go home with extensive general documentation on green roof technologies and specific information about the sites visited.
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