On October 27th, the U.S. Mission’s Green team gathered for a demonstration of the Mission’s electric bicycles (or “e-bikes”). The e-bikes are available for travel by Mission employees to meetings and conferences around Geneva and are part of the Mission’s ongoing commitment to reducing its carbon footprint. The group discussed important features of the...
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On April 20, 2011, the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva will celebrate its signature of Geneva’s Garden Charter (Charte des Jardins) with a seed sowing ceremony beginning the conversion of the lawns surrounding our building to meadows of flowering prairie...
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Nine U.S. landscape architecture students will spend the first two weeks of August studying the grounds surrounding the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and drafting a sustainable landscape design that can be phased in over five years. The students will work...
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Podcast from Hester MacDonald's "Dig It" Show on World Radio Switzerland. The U.S. State Department has chosen the U.S. Mission in Geneva as its flagship post for energy...
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Green Landscape Journal: The bat had come in through the 3rd floor window, probably attracted by bugs flying toward our lamps and computer screens. Everyone in the house...
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Green Landscape Journal: A couple of days ago we, the Greening Geneva interns, had the pleasure of meeting Bertrand Von Arx, the Geneva Regional curator of nature and landscape....
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Green Landscape Journal: Amazing field trips and long design charrettes have left little time for exploring Geneva, but it turns out that Chambesy, the little neighborhood we currently call...
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