QUESTIONS FOR GREEN CITY SOLUTIONS Co-founder and Managing Director Peter Sänger
Why was Green City Solutions founded? Cities are the living space of the future and have many benefits. However, healthy air is not one of them in many places. My co-founder Liang had this experience in his na - tive hometown Shanghai. I felt the same way while trave - ling through various European cities. When Liang and I met at university with these individual but similar experiences, we shared the desire to develop an ecological and econo - mic solution to this problem. Thus, with a young team of experts from the fields of horticulture/biology, computer science, architecture and mechanical engineering, we laun - ched Green City Solutions in 2014. It‘s important to realise, air pollution is one of the world‘s biggest environmental problems and is responsible for 1 in 7 deaths. With our products, we want to help people in particularly polluted urban locations to enjoy clean air and thus better health and quality of life. The current coronavirus pandemic has made us even more aware of the importance of our mission. Poor air quality promotes not only cardiac arrhythmias and dementia, but also lung and respiratory diseases. According to recent sur - veys, 15% of COVID-19 deaths are believed to be due to air pollution.
How does GCS address the problem of polluted and contaminated air?
Our core product is a moss filter. It is based on the idea of combining nature with digital technology to improve air quality. There is more to our natural superhero moss than meets the eye! Mosses bind fine dust, some are antiseptic, antiviral and fungicidal—true all-rounders for air pollution control and health. With the interplay of sensors, intelligent ventilation, irrigation and software, we can make this natu - ral cleaning power measurable and usable. The result is the CityTree. It’s a combination of street furni - ture and biofilter: a bench below, a moss-covered surface above, protected by slats. And inside, it’s packed with com - plex technology that both controls the moss‘s water supply and measures the surrounding air quality. The CityTree is thus the world‘s first biotech filter to quantifiably improve air quality.
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