Awards
- Dogwood Readers Award
- EUREKA! Children's Book Honor Award
- Green Earth Book Award Longlist
Overview
Imagine looking out from your 18th floor apartment in the middle of the city and seeing trees right in front of you. In an effort to stem climate change, reduce pollution, combat heat, and protect biodiversity, architects are teaming up with botanists, urban wildlife ecologists, and other scientists to design high-rise forests, living walls, and vertical farms in some of the world’s most populated places. These projects are happening all around the world, and they will not only change the urban landscape, but they will provide urban dwellers with a healthier place to live and work. For Buildings That Breathe, author and environmental journalist Nancy Castaldo connected with architect Stefano Boeri at the World Forum on Urban Forests and was invited to his office in Milan where she visited Bosco Verticale, the first high-rise forest. Planted with 750 trees, 5,000 shrubs, and 11 perennials on two apartment towers, the project provides an urban habitat for birds, insects, and people while creating a micro-climate that produces oxygen and provides shade for high-rise residents. Explore Bosco Verticale, as well the planned Liuzhou Forest City in China and other green architecture projects around the world, looking at how people are working together to change the urban landscape of the future.
Full Product Details
Author: Nancy F. Castaldo
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint: Lerner Publishing Group
Weight: 0.245kg
ISBN: 9798765650493
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 January 2025
Recommended Age: From 12 to 13 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Availability: Not yet available
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Reviews
"""Castaldo's engaging, in-depth writing provides plenty of explanation and details that show why these efforts are an important part of the planet's future."" --BayViews -- (3/1/2023 12:00:00 AM) ""[A] highly recommended book that will enrich readers' knowledge of our planet Earth while inspiring creatively beautiful change."" -Children's Literature -- (1/25/2023 12:00:00 AM) ""An exciting opportunity to engage young readers with their world and the multidisciplinary researchers working on these big, global issues.""--School Library Journal -- (9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM) ""Hopeful and information-packed, this is a positive addition to the environmental shelf.""--Kirkus Reviews -- (9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM) ""This specialized but extremely helpful resource offers realistic and inspiring solutions.""--Booklist -- (11/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)"
Author Information
Nancy F. Castaldo has written nonfiction children's books about our planet for more than 20 years. As an environmental educator, she hopes to empower more young readers with her books about the Earth. She is based in Chatham, New York.
