...About time! It's been ages since our dear capital has been smeared with pollution and environment reports, blackening our days and dumping our good mood. For ages, I have sat on my terrace gazing at the capital, adjusting my eyes in every way possible to distinguish the buildings from the cloud of smog that covers them, but to no avail.
Sure, green buildings have been among the talks of the public for quite some time now [.pdf] yet as Nader Nakib, CEO of green building consultancy group G-Building, states "The wealthy are simply pioneers helping to mainstream green buildings into the Lebanese street", hoping that going green would be a trend that would eventually be too mainstream to raise interest among the Lebanese. If there's one more burden to add to the poor conscience, it's the environment or how our building would show from Google Maps…there's more to it.
The spotlight lands on Wassim Melki, an architect that was influenced by the capital's harsh reality and teamed up with local NGO ReAct with a mission to plant 60,000 trees on beirut's rooftops. With 15,000 suitable plateaus, Melki claims that simple techniques of placing medium and large trees in pots would suffice to complete the process. It's up to the public to criticize or support the project, hoping some beam of hope would shine through the deep smog of our beloved Beirut.
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