Our CEO Peter Sรคnger in the OECD Forum Network
In โ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ผ๐ง ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐โ, the OECD Forum Network has published our CEOโs thoughts on moss, clean air and Green City Solutionsโ active biofilters.
Mosses are an important ally in the fight against air pollution and global warming because they feed on airborne pollutants: Some mosses use the ammonia from vehicle emissions as a nutrient; others bind and metabolise fine dust. In addition, all mosses are small sponges since they also draw water from the air, they do well to absorb and store a lot of moisture if the humidity is high. Via this evaporation, a considerable cooling of the air occurs.
At Green City Solutions, we not only made the mosses viable in the cities by combining an active filter system with vertical moss mats and intelligent technology, and supplying them with their own bio-algorithm, but we also measurably improved quality of and cooled the surrounding air. The polluted, heated air gets actively sucked into and pushed through the filtering moss mats.
According to tests with independent institutions, such as the TROPOS Institute for Tropospheric Research in Leipzig or the Institute for Air and Refrigeration Technology in Dresden, the active biofilters are able to clean up to 82% of fine dust from the air and cool the air by up to 4ยฐC via evaporation.
In addition to the air-purifying and cooling effects, the mosses are also good for the climate.
And thatโs not all!
Since space in cities is limited, the moss filters have been equipped with smart additional benefits: they serve, for example, as a seating area in a fresh air zone or integrate free WiFi. Equipped with a large LCD screen, the moss filters CityTree or CityBreeze can be used as a digital advertising or information medium in the streets, on large buildings, during events or in shopping malls. To clean the air at a large scale, a free-standing wall element called WallBreeze has also been developed.
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