NEW YORK CITY — An NYU graduate student's design takes 'going green' to another level by installing a small garden on the rooftop of a New York City Transit bus. Student Marco Castro Cosio's design, which garnered second place in a design competition, is a way to "reclaim forgotten space, increase quality of life and grow the amount of green spaces" in New York City, TreeHugger.com reported. To see the bus and read the full story, click here.
Student designs mobile garden on N.Y. bus roof
"If we grew a garden on the roof of every one of the 4,500 buses in the MTA bus fleet, we would have 35 acres of new rolling green space in the city," says Marco Castro Cosio, an NYU graduate student.
October 7, 2010
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