Dear friends,

As you all know I’m very passionate about Living Architecture which includes Green Roofs, Rooftop Gardens and Vertical Gardens. And it is not just a passion only because they look good but because of their amazing sustainable features.

Here is a full article regarding Green Roofs and their benefits:
http://thecitygarden.wordpress.com/greenroofs/

So, because here in Australia we still don’t have laws regulating the field I thought to start a cause to demand a Green Roof Legislation in Australia. The first goal is to reach 1000 members by mid-2009, the second goal is 100.000 members by the end of the year and hopefully reach 1 million people by the end of 2010.

For this cause I’ve chosen Facebook and that was done for 2 reasons. Firstly it has a huge visibility worldwide with a community of more than 150 million people (and still growing) and secondly because all users are real people. In fact I could have started an online petition but the people who sign those petition can be fake (there is no way of really know who they are) and therefore make the campaign useless.

In favour of Facebook I’ve also have to say that since I’ve been using it (more than a year now) I’ve already built a quite interesting worldwide network with people working or passionate in the same field.

Contrary to many people belief, Facebook is not stuff for silly kids but a really great way of networking worldwide. 
It was originally started to find old classmate from University (that’s why the name) but was then opened to everyone and now is the top social network in the world. Althought not primarly business-oriented like LinkedIn, Facebook has the major advantage of having a huge number of members. This makes it the number one place on the internet for reaching idividuals and communities with zero cost.

So, this cause was created to demand a Green Roof Legislation in Australia that would make green roofs compulsory in all new buildings and would tax subsidies the retrofittings of old ones. This is already happening in coutries like Germany where green roofs are now compulsury and 14% of their roof is already green.

A legislation would speed-up the adoption of green roofs, rooftop gardens and vertical walls, making therefore our cities healthier and more sustainable in a very constructive way, focussing on practical solution and not on problems.

I invite everyone to join this cause, to invite your friends to join too and ask them to do the same. 
We need the help of everyone!

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/177531?m=454a9415

If you are not yet a member of facebook you need to join it first. But I assure you that you won’t regret it. 
As I’ve already said before I’ve been using facebook for more than a year and built up so many professional contacts. 

Thank you very much indeed for your support!

Antonino Giglio