Peter Dowdall: Cork bus shelters could play a key role in urban greening 

'We must look at the benefits that urban greening brings as essential elements to any urban development'

A sedum green roof can store up to 80 litres of rainwater per bus shelter. Pictured is the sedum green roof at Europapark (Groningen) in the Netherlands. Picture: iStock

Gardens, nature, trees, the green environment, the greater landscape call it what you will but nature and the natural world offers humanity the answers to all of our modern-day problems and it seems that the more we remove ourselves from the natural world, the greater the increase in these problems, mental health, drug abuse, physical health, species extinction, effects of climate change.

If this green world offers us humans so many solutions and if the highest levels of human habitation and activity are in urban areas, don’t we need to pay more attention to urban landscaping and urban greening?