Building a Rooftop Garden

Car exhaust. Seepage. Carbon dioxide. What do these three have in common? They are examples of nature’s enemies. Is there anything that can save us from this horror? Yes, there is! This method is all natural, biodegradable, and extremely fashionable. The solution is… Rooftop gardens. Our entire future is in a crisis, as we pollute our earth daily. Driving you car to work has enough exhaust to kill a child. Breathing in the air of Mumbai is the equivalent of smoking about 2 packs of cigarettes a day. Rooftop gardens are innovative, and creative, and can be praised through history, the creation, and the environment.

Humans have been growing plants on top of structures since antiquity. The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia had plantings of trees and shrubs aboveground. One example dates back to Roman times, in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii. Here, some people had an elevated terrace, where plants were grown. A roof garden has also been discovered around an audience hall in Roman-Byzantine Caesarea. One very famous example of a rooftop garden in history is the hanging gardens of Babylon. Hanging gardens served many purposes back then, such as food, clean water filtration, and decoration. Nowadays, rooftop gardens can still serve the other purposes, but its main goal is to keep the city’s pollutant rate down. The gardens are positioned so high up, that it can reach much more rising carbon dioxide, and can filter our air more efficiently. These structures may be nice to look at, but have you ever considered the work needed to create such a structure?

Building a rooftop garden is extremely hard, but easy to maintain. To own one, you have to obtain plants that can sustain the climate of your region. You have to know if yo...

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... the truth, rooftop gardens will never solve global warming, or other global issues, but it will decrease the pollution level to half of what it is. If every building in New York had a rooftop garden, then instead of grey clouds, and acidic rain, New York would become a beautiful, clean society.

Rooftop gardens have created an impact on society since 400 B.C., and still do now. These gardens are easy to build, and easy to maintain. These “Sky Gardens” have created homes for birds, clean, crisp air, and stunning designs. Many people argue over how to eliminate pollution, but the answer is right in front of them! We can see these gardens through history, the creation, and the environment. If every building in the world spent a small potion of their time to create these gardens, then our world would become the beautiful, clean, natural metropolis it was before.