Saint Simon Stock School
In 2005 the Gaia Institute installed an intensive green roof on the Saint Simon Stock School in the South Bronx. Green Roof Technology: St. Simon Stock School, Bronx, New York. A grant from the Bronx Initiative in Energy and the Environment and the Bronx Overall Development Corporation in the Bronx Borough President's Office made it possible to build the educational green roof facility in partnership with St. Simon Stock School.The Gaia Institute, with the Green Apple Corps from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation as well as St. Simon Stock faculty and students, constructed a native plant community and urban vegetable garden on top of the grammar school.
