Brazil favela 行動主義者 工場／植物s green roofs to 戦闘 熱波
By Ricardo Moraes
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Luis Cassiano climbs a ladder and gently places small bundles of 工場／植物s on a tin rooftop in a poor Rio de Janeiro 近隣.
The 53-year-old Brazilian 環境の 行動主義者 is 工場／植物ing "green roofs" to grow 頂上に the Rio homes in an 成果／努力 to lower the sweltering 気温s inside.
An unusual late winter 熱波 in central Brazil may 押し進める 気温s to a seasonal 記録，記録的な／記録する that 予報官s say could reach as high as 40-45 Celsius (104-113 F) in major cities in coming days.
"The 事業／計画（する） started out of a necessity. Because I sweat a lot, I needed to find a 解答," said Cassiano, who 調整するs the 事業／計画（する）.
Houses in Brazil's informal working-class communities known as favelas are often built closely together, using 捨てる metal for roofs.
Green roofs 吸収する heat and 行為／法令／行動する as insulators for buildings, 減ずるing the energy needed to 供給する 冷静な／正味のing and heating, によれば the U.S. 環境の 保護 機関.
"The biggest 利益 is that the 気温 goes 負かす／撃墜する, but it also leaves the houses looking nicer and attracts birds and バタフライs," Cassiano said.
He has selected 種類 of 工場／植物s like the creeping tradescantia zebrina and water 保持するing succulents to 避ける 重さを計るing 負かす／撃墜する or 損失ing the buildings. The 工場／植物s need to be rupicolous, or 激しく揺する dwelling, to stand the heat.
Cassiano hopes more people will 可決する・採択する the idea of green roofs in Brazilian communities, a 概念 he says is not only for high-end homes or fancy shopping 商店街s.
"People who live here (the favela) usually go for the fastest 選択s like fans or 空気／公表する 条件ing, b ut we can create 工場／植物s in our habitat," he said.
"We can't put trees in the favela because there's no more space, but we have a lot of space on 最高の，を越す of houses that can be used to 工場／植物 on." (報告（する）／憶測ing by Ricardo Moraes; 令状ing by Steven Grattan; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
