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Urban Green Furniture brings nature closer to the citizens

28.10.2024

Imagine a city where the furniture offers both the functionality and the direct connection to nature. In this city, you can wait for the bus sheltered by a green roof, observing the butterflies enjoying the flower splendor of the green wall integrated to the stop. On your way home from the bus stop, you’re passing by an open playful workshop arranged in a shared mini garden. After arriving home, you can admire the greenery decorating your window thanks to the outdoor green facade attached to the wall of the building. These kinds of comfortable, green and sustainable cities we are building with our stakeholders, one Urban Green Furniture at a time.

Parkly x InnoGreen – creating green urban spaces together

30.11.2023

Parkly, known for their modular and versatile urban furniture, and InnoGreen, renowned for their green walls and green decor, join forces to create more enjoyable urban spaces. The two have worked together in various experiments previously, and now it’s time to make the collaboration official and bring their joint solutions more easily accessible.

InnoGreen’s green solutions bring comfort and communality to cities while also tackling noise pollution

12.09.2023

InnoGreen is developing unique solutions for greener future cities. Urban greenery refers to all the green elements within cities. Through InnoGreen’s innovations, such as the green stop, greenery can be introduced to new locations and built environments, instead of being limited to just parks.

Green noise barrier experiment

04.07.2023

Noise is a real nuisance in many cities. That’s why InnoGreen is participating in a trial with the City of Helsinki to find new, better, and greener solutions to tackle noise pollution. In the summer of 2023, we are fighting against noise with a green noise barrier at Erottaja Square.

Service as Greenery – Effortless Refreshment for Urban Environment

16.05.2023

InnoGreen’s green stop brings greenery to city centres. The stop can be customized according to preferences, and it can be built anywhere. However, the greatest advantage of a green stop is how effortless it is - we offer the green stop as a service, taking care of its construction, maintenance, and winter storage. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

The green stop brings greenery and a communal feeling

08.02.2022

The green stop is an entirely domestic innovation by InnoGreen. The green stop was born out of a desire to develop a green space that enhances biodiversity, and where all residents can enjoy the greenery. Located in an urban environment, the green stop offers a touch of nature, a communal feeling, and something nice to do - all wrapped up in one. All parts of the green stop are made of Finnish wood in Finland.

Reducing the carbon footprint of green construction

10.11.2021

Reducing greenhouse gases is a sustainable development target that we all are responsible for. Green construction needs to find low-carbon solutions as well, in order to control the negative effects of climate change. In this blog post, you get to know Angelina Arial, the new member of our Research & Development Team, and you will hear her ideas on sustainable construction.

Green Stop advances eco-friendly and communal cities

29.09.2021

Green Stop is an all new green solution making cities more comfortable. The wooden structure was designed in cooperation with ROOH Studio. The idea behind Green Stop was to create an eco-friendly green solution bringing liveliness to outdoor spaces in town. We set up Green Stop at Malminkartano in July 2021. Check out the story of Green Stop, from idea to final product!

Researching urban runoff management advances sustainable urbanization

01.07.2021

Rainwater or meltwater that runs unrestrainedly down the streets is a major problem for a city. Urban runoff water that is unfiltered carries the dirt and pollutants of the streets with it, thus it also causes environmental burden. Natural solutions for urban runoff management are essential elements of the future’s city. However, the solutions will not be possible to develop without thorough scientific research.

Green infrastructure helps control the environmental problems of the cities

27.05.2021

The greenhouse gases emitted in cities hasten climate change and deteriorate citizens’ wellbeing. There are challenges in sustainable urbanization but the ways for achieving carbon neutral cities are already within reach. Long Xie, our researcher, tells how green infrastructure can boost the development of cities.

Companies have the possibility and the responsibility to uphold biodiversity

04.03.2021

Companies have benefited greatly from nature and now the time has come for companies to help nature in return. The societal progression that has had the biggest effect on biodiversity has been the increase in consumption . Now is the time to wake up and realise that companies’ actions are greatly needed. Companies have a multitude of possibilities to guard nature values more effectively. Switching to circular economy solutions in manufacturing goods and services, and demanding ecological actions from cooperation partners, to name but a few. The biodiversity catastrophe we are undergoing is possible to tackle but it requires cooperation and genuine contributions.

Could the green wall filter microplastics from urban runoff?

04.01.2021

InnoGreen is currently examining how effectively microplastics can be filtered from urban runoff by directing the runoff water through a green wall. For research purposes a modular green wall was built in Konala, Helsinki. The runoff water from Kehä 1 ring road is directed into the green wall. The study is one of the Speedy Experiments of the Baltic Sea Challenge.

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