“A green revolution is sweeping across the car and concrete jungle of Mexico City, an infamously smoggy capital that was once dubbed ‘Makesicko City’ by novelist Carlos Fuentes. Residents are growing vegetables on rooftops, planting trees where buildings once stood, hopping on bicycles and riding in electric taxis, defying the urban landscape in this metropolis of 20 million people and four million cars. ‘This is our vote for the environment,’ said Elias Cattan, a 33-year-old bespectacled architect pointing to the lettuce, onions and chilies growing in a planting table and inside used tires on the balcony of his rooftop office.”
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