Daily Commercial News and Construction Record — Rush-hour commuters in Chile are breathing easy thanks to new green walls being installed in subway stations in the capital city of Santiago.

Green walls are gaining popularity the world over. The younger and perhaps more daring siblings of the more common green roofs are really not terribly different except that they’re often located indoors and have a vertical perspective.

Ignacio Espoz Babul, director of LatinGreen, a green wall installer in Santiago, described the benefits of platform-level gardens at Cities Alive!, the first annual congress of the World Green Roof Infrastructure Network, hosted last month by the City of Toronto and Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. [read more…]