Steven Peck is founder and president of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a non-profit industry association promoting the planning, designing and building of

green roof A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage ...

, green walls and other

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

projects. Green Roofs was established in 1999. Peck holds an honors B.A. from

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

in Political Science and Economics. In 1999 he co-authored a federal government report on barriers to green roof technology diffusion called “Green Backs for Green Roofs.” Peck is an "Editor-at-Large" and publisher of the ''Living Architecture Monitor'' magazin

a quarterly publication that his organization puts out. It profiles green roof, living wall, urban agriculture profiles, developments and research in North America. He is the founder of the Annual International Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, Awards and Trade Show.

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External links

Green Roofs website
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