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  • A man walks past a house plant dumped in the street for garbage pickup in the Colonia Reforma neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008.
  • Wealthy Mexico City youth at an urban gardening workshop taught by the local organization Sembradores Urbanos at the Adidas store in Condesa, a chic neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico on June 19, 2008. Such events allow Adidas to promote its new Grun products, made from natural and recycled materials, while allowing the organization to reach out to an upper class audience.
  • Wealthy Mexico City youth plant saplings at an urban gardening workshop taught by the local organization Sembradores Urbanos at the Adidas store in Condesa, a chic neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico on June 19, 2008.
  • A young woman carries home the saplings she planted at an urban gardening workshop taught by the local organization Sembradores Urbanos at the Adidas store in Condesa, a chic neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico on June 19, 2008.
  • Rodrigo Canavas, director of Azoteas Verdes (Green Roofs), poses with his demo garden on the roof of the Centro Cultural La Pyramide in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008. His organization promotes roof garden construction throughout the city, teaching workshops, collecting used containers and preparing compost from organic waste.
  • Rodrigo Canavas, left, director of Azoteas Verdes (Green Roofs), convinces a mechanic to let him collect used car tires from his shop in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008.
  • Marianna Dellekamp, a fine art photographer and avid urban gardener, enjoys the roof garden with her dog at her home in Condesa, a chic neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico, on June 19, 2008.
  • Marianna Dellekamp, a photographer and avid urban gardener, works on the roof garden at her home in Condesa, a chic neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico, on June 19, 2008.
  • Potted flowers stand on a desk in an empty office in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008.
  • Coworkers at SEDUVI (Secretaria de Desarollo Urbano y Viviendo), or Secretary of Urban Living and Development, socialize during their break on the expansive roof garden of the government building in Mexico City, Mexico on June 18, 2008. The seven year old hydroponic installation, the first of its kind in Mexico, is responsible for most of the flowers used in Mexico City's expansive parks. All employees in the building are free to work one hour a day on the roof garden.
  • Gabriela Vargas, of the local organization Sembradores Urbanos, pours water from watering cans into a gutter after teaching an urban gardening workshop hosted at the Adidas store in Condesa, a chic neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico on June 19, 2008.
  • Gardener Jose Razo waters plants on the roof of CICEANA (Centro de Informaci—n y Comunicaci—n Ambiental de Norte AmŽrica), or Centre for Information and Environmental Communication of North America, set in the Viveros de Coyoacan (Coyoacan Nurseries) in Mexico City, Mexico on June 18, 2008. CICEANA's mission is to promote sustainable development and stimulate initiatives to solve and prevent environmental problems.
  • Tree seller Angel Guerrero pushes his cart down a street in Condesa, a chic neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico, on June 19, 2008.
  • Lily Foster, an American who co-founded the local urban gardening organization Sembradores Urbanos, works on the hydroponics installation on the roof of her home in Mexico City, Mexico on June 19, 2008.
  • Vladimir Castro Consas, who runs his own internet radio station, works in his garden at his home in Magdalena Contreras, a spacious and quiet suburb of Mexico City, Mexico on June 20, 2008.
  • A plant grows from a toilet seat used as a planter outside the offices of the organization Azoteas Verdes (Green Roofs) in the Centro Cultural La Pyramide in Mexico City, Mexico on June 17, 2008.
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