In a Rio de Janeiro favela, community volunteers, including students, are helping residents like Reginaldo Gomes da Silva create green roofs to combat extreme heat. As record temperatures approach, resident Luis Cassiano guides locals on using plants to cool their homes without relying on electricity. Cassiano's nonprofit, Teto Verde Favela, promotes this green roof initiative, rooted in traditional practices and modern techniques developed in Germany. This effort not only addresses immediate comfort but fosters community involvement and environmental sustainability among those living in challenging conditions.
Gomes da Silva had already met fellow Parque Arara resident Luis Cassiano who explained how a special type of garden grown on rooftops could help cool their homes.
Cassiano is the founder of Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit that teaches favela residents how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat.
Even in the dead of the southern hemisphere's winter, temperatures had already broken records, reaching almost 104 degrees Fahrenheit toward the end of August.
They tied the small bundles with string and passed them to Gomes da Silva to lay in the grooves of the tiles on top of his home.
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