I grew up watching movies set in New York City, so I have many pre-conceived images of life there. A peaceful garden on top of a school was not one of those images. PS 41 is this magical school with the green roof. It is an Eco-School, part of National Wildlife Federation’s program to support schools doing green things (PS stands for public school in New York. I guess when you have 1700 schools, you give them numbers). We visited to gather their story, to inspire other schools. National Wildlife Federation supported the project with a grant, and going forward, we’ll be sharing our expertise in environmental education and curriculum development to support the teachers as they start to use the green roof in their studies.

In New York, it’s probably normal to have a school squeezed between hundreds of shops, but when I first turned the corner and found PS 41, I was shocked to see a school. My daily walk to my children’s elementary school in Virginia passes woods and a big green lawn. No lawn here—concrete sidewalks across the front, concrete playground in the back with tall buildings forming walls on all sides. If I was ...

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