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December 2006
Rooftop oases find growing enthusiasm
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... 7. The living roof of the $13-million, 7,000-square-foot, city-owned building, which is scheduled to be completed by mid-2008, was a requirement of 9th ...
The Kitchen Is Open
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA... Eco-friendly touches grace both the decor (renewable wood and bio-composite wall panels) and the kitchen's ingredients (a rooftop garden provides herbs and ...
State, experts set goals for more 'green buildings'
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... burners. UK also is studying the feasibility of putting a green roof on the building, but no decision has been made, Wiseman said. ..
月Green rooftops perfect foil for heat and smog (SCMP) 12?20 ...
椻?禲?晧?港? - Hong Kong
... The HK$100,000 will provide resources for Professor Jim to set up a 200 square metre rooftop garden with at least two plant species that are drought and heat ...
Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson
WorldChanging - USA
... I mean, who's not to like a garden on a roof? ... of the project is to show the feasibility and the benefits of edible rooftop gardening, rainwater catchment, and ...
ASLA Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Lawn & Landscape - Cleveland,OH,USA
... grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for outreach and education programming surrounding the Society’s new green roof demonstration project ...
UK's largest green roof
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
The largest grass roof in the UK could soon crop up on the Hemel Hempstead skyline if fresh plans for an indoor ski centre are given the go-ahead. ...
Real Estate Developer Spotlight --> LivingHomes!
By Garrett
A green roof was installed, which insulates the house and reduces the heat island effect (see Green Roof Sunday post!). Only FSC certified wood was used for the millwork, ceilings, siding and framing. Only paints low in VOCs (volatile ..
Hemel's indoor slope to have eco-friendly grass roof
Snowboard Club UK - Brighton,East Sussex,UK... The largest grass roof in the UK could soon crop up on the Hemel Hempstead skyline if fresh plans for an indoor ski centre are given the go-ahead this week.
Taking the high ground
The Nelson Mail - Nelson,New Zealand
... The latter is in front of the house, and it was important that a barrier be created between the two. A living roof was an ideal option.
ON ARCHITECTURE- Green ambition: Waldorf's green school recognized
The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... architect Ted Jones, the 19,000-square-foot building will use straw bale SIP panels configured to capture breezes on the site, feature a "living roof" made of ...
Councillors to vote on green roof law
News1130 - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... decision today. Councillors will vote on a green roof law, which will obligate developers to include vegetation on rooftops.
Green building putting down roots in commercial construction
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... Heather Venhaus, environmental designer at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, designed this green roof, planted with grasses, at a strip center at
’Look, up in the sky, its green
Coquitlam Tri City News - B.C., Canada
... bylaw mandating that all new commercial and industrial buildings with a footprint larger than 5,000 square metres (or 53,821 square feet) have a “green roof
BUILDING HISTORY
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... A big part of that oasis is the green roof, a system that includes drought-tolerant plants and artificial turf on the terraces, and water features to tie in ...
York plans green business centre
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
... to use 32 workshops and 40 office units at the centre, which will feature a wind turbine to generate electricity, solar-heated water and a green roof garden. ...
Board reviews plans for new school
Stamford Advocate - Stamford,CT,USA
... he said. The school will be set up to collect storm water for use in irrigating the wetlands and the rooftop garden. The irrigation ...
Green should be the new gold for Bay Area office buildings ...
PensacolaNewsJournal.com - FL... As for the rooftop garden: sod and greenery will insulate the building, soak up stormwater and reduce runoff; excess stormwater will be caught and recycled. ...
Green is going up on the roof
WVEC.com (subscription) - Norfolk,VA,USA... can't be absorbed. In June 2005, The McElroys of Norfolk decided to replace their leaking roof with a green roof. "The more we looked ...
Zoom with a view
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada... But, she adds, the green roof can be about more than sustainability. "We tell our clients, make the roof a place where people want to be. ...
Landfill to be transformed into environmental education park
UConn Advance - Storrs,CT,USA... A roof garden could replace the wide expanse of cement that currently exists, he says, and would conserve energy by keeping offices beneath the roof cooler in
A Rolls-Royce welcome for Goodwood Barn Owls Easier - Chester,UK... The lake and the landscaping, including our eight acre living roof, where non-chemical techniques are used to control pests, are proving a haven for numerous ...
Architect wins court case over 'defaced' Berlin station design
Guardian Unlimited - UK... the design looked unbalanced: "It looks like the sausage has been bitten off at one end," he is reported to have said of the long cylindrical grass roof of the ...
November 2006
Making Your Grass Greener
Newsweek - USA
... their clients. With only a little effort, you can find green brokers, green homes, green contractors, even green mortgages. Top ...
A Green Roof in Phoenix
By Survive LA
The part of the complex we toured incorporates what is probably one of the first so-called "green roof" systems in Arizona. Each unit of this multi-story complex comes with a large terrace that is essentially a back yard complete with ...
Co.: This roof will grow on you
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
... more than just growing on the roof, it's growing as an industry,” said Robert Berghage, director of Penn State University's Center for Green Roof Research.
On the roof, nature takes root
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
... I think it's a great technology," added Velasquez, whose voice-mail greeting tells callers he's "out saving the world, one green roof at a time.".
Hidden Garden
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... The two-story building "is basically a beautiful and environmentally friendly 'concrete bunker' that is designed to last at least 100 years," Wichman said. ...
Guest Expert Series - Green Roof Questions (Light House ...
Light House: Sustainable Building Centre.
Could this be your home of the future?
Sunderland Echo - UK
... putting together. Green roof on a new building in St Martin's-in-the-Field. Picture - Alumasc Exterior Building Products Ltd.
Up on the roof, a green revolution
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... whole cities cooler. The Discovery Place site, unveiled Friday, is city government's first green-roof experiment. Low-growing sedum
The forgotten faade
By weathergirl
But contemporary green roof technology — for new construction and retrofit — is ... With Germany's green roof incentive policies, she reports, green roofs now make up 14% ... But Australia is woefully behind in the green roof movement. ...
Bank invests in green roof
Baltimore Sun - United States
... and retail building on Westgate Circle is what bank and city officials said is the first commercial space in Annapolis with a "green roof," which insulates in ...
New Denver EPA Building Topped Off With Green Roof
Pollution Online (press release) - Horsham,PA,USA... And on the top of the building—a Green roof. “The architects and developers wanted a Green roof for several reasons,” says ...
Roof welcome, future needed
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
A green roof for the Civic Center may make sense if the plan is to use the building, without major renovation, for the next 40 years — the length of time ...
‘’New affordable green homes for Brixton
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
Brixton residents are set to benefit from the arrival of over 30 much-needed affordable homes after Genesis Housing Group received planning permission for a ...
Wharf residents find good food, entertainment
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
... Smith said. She and her husband have a deck and plans are in the works for a roof garden because Smith misses a yard. Living on ...
building for life
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... According to a 2006 survey by the National Association of Home Builders and McGraw-Hill Construction, green homes could be an estimated $20 billion to $38
Builders pitch green standards
Tahoe Daily Tribune - South Lake Tahoe,CA,USA... In Murakami's profession, she's receiving a growing group of calls from home seekers wanting to buy "green" homes at the basin.
The Viking Trail: Torshavn, Faroe Islands
Evening Observer - Dunkirk,NY,USA
... We were delighted to come across a little white country chapel with a grass roof overlooking a fjord on one side, backed by a cascading waterfall on the other. ...
First phase of 'green' offices will set the pattern for similar UK ...
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... a roof garden, water and wind turbines and solar cells to generate energy for the building, a water conservation system, including the harvesting of rainwater ...
Plug pulled on homes vision for office site
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... The 200,000sq ft site has the capacity to accommodate around 1800 workers and the complex includes a roof garden, restaurant, kitchen and coffee shop, as well ...
ROOF IN BLOOM: BCBS parking garage goes green
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Green roofs absorb storm water and release it over several hours. Green roof systems have been shown to retain 60%-100% of storm water.
City looks at living roof for ailing public building
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... Merritt is 12 floors above the ground on Chicago City Hall’s “green” roof, an example of environmental design that has drawn the interest of private and ...
Plant, mow and water the ... roof?
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
... 6, 2006. The Back Bay Tower apartment building in Portland has a version of a green roof, above, over its parking garage. A central ...
‘ç’Technology Drives Fifth Faade
By Jeffrey Goodman
The success of green roof movements in Chicago, San Francisco, and other cities can be attributed to the emerging public understanding of architecture through tools like Google Earth.
Geothermal heating easy on environment, wallet Aberdeen American News - Aberdeen,SD,USA... Once a geothermal heat pump system is installed, home or business owners must install a special meter to get a reduced price on the electricity used for the ...
Learning from Green Roofs
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA... apartment building. A couple is looking down from a high window over the rooftop garden. “Those ... the St. Simon rooftop garden.
The growing prominence of rooftops
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA... full scale. Smith worked with similar themes in a design for a new rooftop garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. When
He's the da Vinci of citrus
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... It will feature waterless urinals, a rainwater collection system and an "aquaponic" rooftop garden that grows salad vegetables and raises tilapia to be sold in ...
October 2006
íEnergy development threatens Pumaln nature sanctuary in Chlie's ...
Mongabay.com - USA
... Behind the house, organic gardens and overgrown plots of medicinal herbs stretch away toward the Cerro MacKay. The house even has a grass roof. ...
£WE'LL MOW YOUR ROOF FOR 5000 Heritage HQ shock
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... on their roof. The £13million centre, which has won acclaim for its eco-friendly credentials, includes a roof garden. But health
Center For Green Roof Research: Penn State's EcoRoof Technology ...
DigitalJournal.com - Canada
Now I know what happened to that Banquet Chicken Pot Pie I left in the microwave a few months ago or it could be that Jiffy Pop Popcorn Pan I lost so many ...
Lincoln Center Grows a Green Roof
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
... though. The green roof — part of Lincoln Center's $650 million West 65th St. ... challenges. It may be the only curved green roof in the city. .
’Myths and math, roofing and rent, fashion follies and other O ...
Pensacola News Journal - Pensacola,FL,USA
... Escambia County is considering a “green roof” that would bring an environmental approach and added efficiency to its new one-stop building for building ...
The Next Big Thing, Part One
By A. Forsteri(A. Forsteri)
The new headquarters would sport a green roof, but the residential buildings would not. Aesthetics and economics made that prospect unappealing, the developer's representatives explained at Thursday's planning board meeting in Silver ...
Last Straw For Wakefield Green Building
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK The final bale has been added to Wakefield's first eco-friendly building, complete with living roof and compost toilet. After months ...
Green roof sprouts on top of Whipple Annex
Ipswich Chronicle - Ipswich,MA,USA
... anything but traditional. The installation of a "green roof" has been completed and will begin to sprout this spring. The roof is ...
Green roof saves green in Chicago
MSNBC - USA... "I talked about building a green roof," says Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, "and everybody kind of looked at me whether or not I kind of lost it, ha ha ha.". ...
Green roof a Montreal first
The Suburban - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
By Jason Magder, The Suburban. The borough of CDN/NDG will build the first green roof for a city-owned building for the Maison de la Culture. ...
'Green' roof shows its stuff
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... So when Chipperfield referred to a grass roof in 2002, Iowans immediately began wondering how often it would need to be mowed or if the library might rely on ...
Roof garden idea grows on Power
The Gold Coast Bulletin - Molendinar,Queensland,Australia
Plans are afoot to transform the city's urban desert into an environmentally friendly oasis in the sky. Deputy Mayor David Power
Norfolk firm is UK's top grower
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK... before the clients occupied it. They wanted a roof garden that should have been designed into the plans.”. She added: “For these ...
Rolls Royce to recycle
Reuters.uk - UK Following the development of its eight acre "living roof", complete with nesting skylarks, the factory has set a recycling target of 75% for all waste ...
Municipality turns to green Ira Township installs unique natural ...
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA... patch of plants covering the roof of a structure to absorb rainwater, filter run ... to filter storm-water runoff while providing a low-maintenance garden landscape ...
A new kind of shingle is taking root on roofs
Boston Globe - United States... A green roof without shingles will be taking root this winter on top of the 10-unit complex that the North Shore Housing Trust is building on the banks of the ...
Portland is the city of civility and transportation
Joburg - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa... One mixed-use building that I visited, an industrial warehouse in a previous life, had a "green roof" consisting of a soil-cover planted with a particular type
Rooftop Research
University of Arkansas Daily Headlines - Fayetteville,AR,USA... call for the installation of identical 8-foot by 8-foot garden sheds at the ... Johnson said, noting the university's recent use of harvested rainwater for cooling
Green living takes root in Sweden
BBC News - UK... scale of 0 to 1 the average factor must be at least 0.5. So an impervious surface rates as 0.0, a tree 0.4 and a green roof 0.8.
Roof gardens a cure for water runoff?
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... A 2,400-square-foot roof garden on a chemical storage building in Bonita Bay did well in four hurricanes, said Martin P. Wanielista, director of the storm ...
~Green hotel is a first for state
Examiner.com - USA... of the typical ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new hotel, Mayor Gavin Newsom helped Huang plant a marina tree that will live on the hotel’s roof garden.
Torontos Green Roofs Growing Slowly
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK... ft. rooftop garden and offers patrons aC$130 tour of the facility, coupled with a three-course lunch. "There's a lot of different reasons that we do it.
–Aloe Vera The Medical Mystery Of The Friendly Flora
Market-Day.net - Scottsdale,AZ,USA... While modern science sometimes refutes the plant as having much medicinal value, it has been used throughout history, by ancient cultures all over the world ...
WIRED NEXTFEST: The Future of Green
Inhabitat - USA... actually green. Ironically, one of the biggest innovations in western green building design is the green roof.
New Advanced Vegetative Roof System
Construction and Maintenance News - Minsk,Belarus Columbia Green Technologies introduced Advanced Vegetative Roof System, AVRS, a new green roof system. The water-efficient system ...
Adnams Chalk And Hemp Warehouse Opens
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK The living roof was laid in the summer but despite being normally drought resistant, because of the hot weather and no rainfall parts of it had to be replaced. ...
St. Mary's students enjoy trip to Ford Rouge
Livingston Daily - Livingston,MI,USA
... ride up 80 feet to the Observation Deck, which offered a panoramic view of the Ford Rouge Center and a spectacular way to see the living roof atop Dearborn ...
Sustainability Tour from SF to Sonoma Oct 14th
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
... and ornamentals. It features an outdoor cob kitchen, and a lovely straw bale, mushroom-shaped building with a living roof.
Penn State Solar Decathlon Team to build energy-efficient home
Penn State Digital Collegian - University Park,PA,USA... In addition to the plant shelves, the home will also feature a green roof, which will be a garden on the roof of the technical core, Rotondi said.
New Green Roof System Reduces Need for Costly Irrigation; Uses ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Vegetative Roof System (AVRS™), a patent-pending new green roof system, is being introduced by Columbia Green
6,000 sedum plants green up roof of refurbished building
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Mr. Phillips said the county's first "green roof" will help control storm-water runoff and conserve energy at the Hempfield building owned by the county ...
First green roof planted in county
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Jack Maher, of Tuscano-Maher Roofing, of Saltsburg, a member of the roof design team, said a green roof is, on average, two-and-a-half times more expensive to ...
Army says it's easier being green
Pocono Record - Stroudsburg,PA,USA
Funding from the Joint Services Initiative allowed depot officials to install a vegetative green roof on one wing of the headquarters building this summer. ...
Technology business grows green
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
... "I know about green roofs from living in Europe, and thought that our flat-roofed building would be an ideal site for a green roof," Holman said.
West Michigan: Let's go green!
WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... Managers considered every aspect of construction for environmental impact. The most-talked about project is the green roof. Instead ...
Conference Center Roof Home to Unique Gardens
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... national magazine. The LDS Conference Center's roof garden is featured in the October Issue of Landscape Architecture magazine. You
All taps off in the outside world
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia... Garden lovers are turning to native plants and grey water; the region's biggest ... its water bills, and a major car dealership has installed rainwater tanks to ...
’Canadas Largest Residential Green Roof Celebrates the ...ECO/Huff Strategy (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada... their neighbourhood,” says Kuhn. Hugh Garner Co-op had a conventional roof garden for 25 years. Anticipating Toronto City Council
September 2006
Rooftop project in bloom
Community Press - Florence,KY,USA
... air and reflect. From their comments, the hospital started cultivating a rooftop patio into a rooftop garden. The Wellness Committee ...
Grand designs
Times Online - UK
... “Getting the plants right, and keeping everything well watered, is vital to keep a roof garden — or patio — looking lush,” he emphasises.
Warm welcome for new firms
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... solar panels providing hot water, a 15 metre wind turbine generating energy for communal areas, water saving devices, a green roof garden, lighting saving
Royal approval for eco-firm
York Press - York,UK
... The energy-efficient building includes a green roof, wind turbines and photo-volteic panels which provide energy for lighting and computers, solar hot water ...
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
A rooftop garden will insulate the former Lazarus department store Downtown and collect rainwater to flush the building’s toilets when it is reborn as ...
Tough reaching green for KC
Kansas City Star - MO,USA... Planted the country’s first municipal rooftop garden on a city hall. It’s now like a park, with trees and shrubs and pathways. ...
Bronx county's sky garden is largest in boro
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... to his office, but this week Bronx Borough President - and avid golfer - Adolfo Carrión marked the completion of a 10,000-square-foot "green roof" atop the ...
Sustainable Condo spreads green message
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada... It has a green roof that retains and decreases rainwater runoff. Wood for the millwork and flooring for the condo come from sustainably harvested forests.
Green building suits center's goal
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA, USA... detail of the place, designed by local architectural firm Lord Aeck Sargent, is eco-friendly, from the pervious asphalt parking lot to the sloped green roof. ...
Listener Letters
Living on the Earth - Cambridge,MA,USA
... Derr. The green roof on that building attracts birds and has beehives that produce up to 150 pounds of honey each year. Sweet. Our ...
’Under Construction: Fort Waynes First Green Roof
Lawn & Landscape - Cleveland,OH,USA
... Petroleum Traders Corp., a space described by its designers, including Skinner, owner of Emerald Landscape in Fort Wayne, as the first “green roof” on an
’Construction wave begins
Loyola College Greyhound (subscription) - Baltimore,MD,USA... The dorm will be built using locally manufactured brick, and will incorporate many en-vironmentally friendly features, including a "green" roof, and a ...
Federal buildings going 'green'
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Suitland is designed with under-floor air distribution, abundant daylight through skylights and large windows and a 146,000 square-foot green roof, the largest ...
Enviro-conscious car dealer to drive down green highway
Vancouver Province (subscription) - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... Other eco-friendly features will include a 6,000-square-foot green roof system with more than 30 species of exotic, drought-resistant plants that will help ...
REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Good day sunshine: Pull the plug, live ...
The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... Other installations include rainwater harvesting tanks, a green roof, a ductless cooling system, a parabolic mirror, and best of all, radiant floor heat.
Under construction: Citys first green roof
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA... The garden will be on the roof of the new headquarters of ... have a number of benefits – from providing pleasing aesthetics to controlling rainwater runoff and ...
City wants eco-friendly new building
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA... It aims to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated. “One of the things we may do is have a ‘green’ roof,” St
Golden days for silver
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA... "If you garden at the seashore, if you have a rooftop garden, if you have crummy soil next to a hot driveway or a terrace around a swimming pool...
GH municipal parking lots are going 'green'Photo:25678,left;Photo ...
Grand Haven Tribune - Grand Haven,MI,USA
... "We will also be setting up a green roof on the new dumpster enclosures to add to the environmentally friendliness of this new parking lot.".
What to do when scale starts lunching on potted plants
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Q:Out of my eight different citrus trees (all in large clay pots on a very sunny rooftop garden and all bearing tasty fruit), two trees, a 'Rangpur' lime and a ...
New York 'pasturizes' courthouse rooftop
United Press International - USA
NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Final preparations were under way Sunday for the unveiling of a New York court house's 10,000-square foot "living" green roof. ...
Roof top research to pave way to greener buildings
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand... Fully funded by the Auckland Regional Council (ARC), this three-year research project will look into design specifications for green roof systems suitable for
How does his garden grow?
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA
... by Sullivan as more like “outdoor rooms” than just “a garden,” his living ... have been like a swamp” since the clay would prevent rainwater from draining ...
Roof makes you green with envy
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... we discovered there were other benefits to having a roof garden as well ... runoff by about 50 percent to 90 percent because the vegetation absorbs rainwater.
—Rebuilt to inspire and it does
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... the gardens, it can be seen in the new building, brilliantly designed by Montgomery Sisam Architects, that's part of the facility; it has a green roof and is ...
Forestry building sees trees
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA... Officials touted its several-story glass atrium and its green roof, which will host research for the school and the horticulture department. ...
'As green as we can make it'
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
From the green roof of plants that will cover parts of the building to the atrium entrance that will have an indoor nature walk, the building will reflect the ...
Green ideas ready to bloom
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... and Helmut Jahn, and a new building by Farr Associates in Humboldt Park that uses geothermal heating and cooling systems, solar panels, a green roof and power ...
Moor centre approved
Whitby Today - UK... Instead of a proposed sedum, a type of grass, roof which would have proved too heavy in rain and snow, it will now be constructed of a lightweight material
‘’Red fire trucks, green firehouse?
Petaluma Argus-Courier - Petaluma,CA,USA... included solar panels on the top of the three-story building, using recycled water to wash trucks and flush toilets, and even a rooftop garden to supplement
A Green Vision for Baltimore
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA... From the 20,000 square-foot green roof to the energy-saving, photo-sensor-controlled lighting system, Montgomery Park serves as a model for how green ...
Law college expansion begins
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada... The building's insulation will reduce energy costs by 50 per cent or more. A green roof will feature natural grass and flowers. ...
New Education Building schematic unveiled
Central Michigan Life - Mt. Pleasan,MI,USA... But perhaps more important, the building will bring several aspects of the department under a single roof — a fairly large and green roof. ...
27,000 Plants Make Green Roof At Denver EPA
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... 27,000 plants have been planted on the roof of the Environmental Protection Agency's new regional headquarters in Denver, part of a "green roof" designed to
Greening up from the top down
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
... The roof is Colorado's first "green roof" and is designed to insulate the building and help reduce the amount of rainwater that hits the streets. ...
New Berkeley campus green with sustainability
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... "This is not cutting edge," says Ratcliff's Mike Matson, who worked on the design with Crodd Chin. "We don't have photovoltaic panels or a green roof.
LA City Council Explores Green Roof Concept CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA... environment. A green roof can be grass over a thin layer of soil on a roof or it can be more elaborate with deeper soil, shrubs and trees. ...
August 2006
Rooftop greenery changing view of skyline from above
San Diego Daily Transcript (subscription) - San Diego,CA,USA
... have aesthetic designs. A green roof built on Chicago's City Hall in 2001 has plants designed in a sunburst pattern. In its first ...
Rain gardens -- a growing idea taps stormwater
The Grand Rapids Press - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... streams and rivers. The 3-year-old building has a "green" roof that uses a thick bed of sedum plants to soak up rain. The roof also
Gardens In The Sky
Forbes - USA... There are 15 acres of green roofs on the 18-acre site. Common green roof space sprawls over the underground parking garage. And ...
Earth-Friendly Design
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA... Spuler mentions an interesting concept called the "green roof." This is a roof area that is landscaped with plants such as grass, flowers, shrubs, and even ..
Village plans unveiled at USM
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA... A green roof uses live, growing plants for cover instead of the traditional shingles or tar and gravel. Polk said the green roof ...
Green Roofs Provide Natural Drainage, Cleaner Rivers NBC 4.com - Washington,DC,USA... The green roof is a simple innovation that developers are starting to implement, News4's Wendy Rieger reported. A new building on ...
Instant Grass Roof Possible with Turf Tiles LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA... real possibility. Toyota Roof Garden (subsidiary of the car company) is now taking orders for its modular grass tiles. The idea ...
New roofing material could let builders roll out the 'green' ...
Discovery Reports Canada - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Researchers from Toyota Roof Garden in Japan are now taking orders for grass tiles, called the TM9 turf mats, to help reduce urban heat island effects and cool
Underground water system heats and cools Capshaw house
Huntsville Times - Huntsville,AL,USA
... The Caneers own the "underground house" that sits off Capshaw Road and may be Madison County's most unusual home. "We've really enjoyed it," Rosanna said.
What you can do to help in your own backyard
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA... plants. A so-called green roof is an old idea that may be making its way to our area. ... up. Get on the Internet and search for "green roof."
Artful Shopper: Millennium Park a Chicago treasure
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
... Robert Israel. Millennium Park is actually one giant green roof built over parking garages and an active commuter rail line. The ...
'Green roof,' stream protection earn funding from bay program
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
Federal grants will help put a "green roof" on a bank building in Caroline County and restore more than a half-mile of Fairfax County stream. ..
‘’Wastewater Reclamation Facility's Green roof is largest in ...
Coon Rapids ECM Publishers - Coon Rapids,MN,USA
Planting is just wrapping up on the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Wastewater Reclamation Facility’s “green” roof, which will be the largest of its ...
Toyota develops lawns for your roof
Sci Fi Tech - New York,NY,USA
... Well, the luxury of having a lawn on your roof may be getting a lot more affordable thanks to Toyota Roof Garden of Japan, a division of the auto maker. ...
Water savings initiatives deliver results at Rolls-Royce
Easier - Chester,UK
... The main buildings have been planted with thousands of sedum plants, to form the UK’s largest ‘living roof’ covering over 22,500 square metres (eight ...
Green roofs clean rainwater runoff
Earth & Sky - Austin,TX,USA
... DB: That's why some communities are turning to alternatives such as "green roofs." David J. Beattie is director of the Penn State Center for Green Roof Research ...
Yes, it is easy being green
nwitimes.com - Munster,IN,USA
... On July 19, Lake County Surveyor George Van Til submitted a plan for a so-called "green roof" project for a portion of the Lake County Government Complex in ...
Volunteers working on barn for Conrad Weiser students
Reading Eagle - Reading,PA,USA
... with a metal roof. A “green roof” will be installed on the lower roof after the entire building is finished. It will be planted ...
Roof Positive
PW-Philadelphia Weekly - Philadelphia,PA,USA... this summer. But one remedy is gaining prominence among Philadelphia homeowners and developers alike: green-roof technology. Green ...
'Green isn't just a color when it comes to roofs
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... Green roofs are hot. Or cool, actually. The main green-roof go-to guy in the Twin Cities is landscape architect L. Peter MacDonagh of Kestrel Design Group. ...
City roofs get grow-ahead
Calgary Sun - Canada
... But, in fact, it is a photo illustration of the green-roof area that is being built as part of a three-tower condo development by arriVa in old Victoria Park. ...
Honey, are those pansies in our salad?
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Rotem Ayalon at the Rooftop Garden Project on Henri Julien St., which has added edible flowers to its mix. We eat broccoli, cauliflower and artichokes. ...
Contamination closes community garden in Montreal
CTV.ca - Canada... Ismael Hautecoeur, project coordinator for a rooftop garden that supplies a local charity, hopes the news won't discourage other urban gardeners. ...
Its not just a roof - itsa garden
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,NE,USA... air. A recent tour of his roof garden showed that the plants were doing quite well, despite this summer’s scorching temperatures. .
Terror alert hits business
Buxton Advertiser - Buxton,England,UK... setting. It has a living roof of sedum turf, intersected by a waterfall tumbling over glass panels into a pool at the entrance. ...
Osprey library may get green roof
Venice Gondolier - Venice,FL,USA
A report on the possibility of installing a "green" roof on the proposed Osprey public library is being reviewed by the Sarasota County administrator. ...
Prairie Technologies Inc. CEO Honored as "Innovator of the Year"
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... business roofs. "Our green roof helps home and business owners save energy costs and helps the environment," said Leonard. "Our ...
’Its Getting Easier to Be Green
New York Times - United States
... Street in Battery Park City. Tenants can use a rooftop garden dotted with chairs and chaises longues. The green designation is conferred
Earthly inspiration
Globe and Mail - Canada... Green-roof gardening is another trend that is coming home, and Flora has a section devoted to showing you how it's done: With reinforced roofs, lightweight ...
New Gardening Highs
Seattle Times - United States... An open rooftop garden calls for the vertical punctuation of trees, screens and arbors to break up the strong horizontal lines.
For Mayor Daley, it's easy seeing green
Houston Chronicle - United States
... "Anytime you fly into an airport, you see flat roofs. Imagine if every one of those flat roofs had a green roof. What a difference that would make!".
Up on the roof, gardens will be soon growing
Indianapolis Star - United States
... A PLOT: Craig M. Flandermeyer (left) explains green-roof technology to Southeast Neighborhood Development President Mark Stewart and Development and Planning .
Sending Out an SOS To Protect Waterways
Washington Post - United States
... The company's building on Braverton Street is outfitted with a living roof, made of sedum plants, that helps reduce energy costs and reduce storm-water runoff. ...
Clean Water Solution
Coast Weekly - Monterey,CA,USA
... According to Paul Kephart of Carmel Valley’s Rana Creek Habitat Restoraton and Living Architecture, a green roof like the ones he designs and constructs can ...
Greening of Chicago Starts at the Top Floor
Washington Post - United States
... A worker plants a "green roof" at the Chicago Cultural Center, part of Mayor Richard M. Daley's ecology program. (By Peter Slevin -- The Washington Post). ...
New EPA Facility Goes Green, Wins Gold
Consulting-Specifying Engineer - Oak Brook,IL,USA
... Between the two towers, a small green roof also helps minimize storm-water runoff, while also providing a pleasant outdoor space.
‘’UA professor testing green roofs on campus
Northwest Arkansas Times - Fayetteville,AR,USA... of University of Arkansas students is trying to slow the effects of global warming by helping their professor install the first “ green roof” on campus. ...
Westin developer receptive to green roof for hotel
Nashville City Paper - Nashville,TN,USA... “We will do a green roof, and we will look into doing LEED certification,” Brandon Rains, the Barber Group project manager who is heading the Westin project
Green Buildings
Washington Post - United States
... "Landscape architects are leading many green roof projects across the ... "We hope to provide a catalyst for more green roof development in Washington and beyond.".
GM shows off new 'green' assembly plant Malaysia Star - Malaysia... GM is not the only automaker that has gone green. At Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn Truck Plant, a "living roof'' helps heat and cool the building. ...
Lansing assembly plant goes green
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA... gold certification by the US Green Building Council, and the automaker's Dearborn Truck Plant, where F-150 pickups are built, has a living roof that absorbs ...
Morning File: Chilling out, big time
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... The cooling effect minimizes the cost of heating and cooling -- talk about green, as in money -- and esthetically a roof garden is a nice thing to have. ...
Green Factor would change urban landscape design
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (subscription) - Seattle,WA,USA
... Inevitably, the green roof option became more and more appealing. Adding a green roof over the residential units put the tally over ...
Fire causes temporary disruption at Central Iowa Power Cooperative
Radio Iowa - Des Moines,IA,USA... Creston. Investigators say the fire was caused by an explosion in underground ductwork laid for a high-voltage cable. There's considerable ..
Outdoor Illumination Selected for ASLA Green Roof Project
Lawn & Landscape - Cleveland,OH,USA to design the outdoor lighting for its green roof in downtown Washington, DC. “Outdoor Illumination was selected to help create
Green Roofs Being Tested In Austin
KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA
... down into the creek system. If you've got a green roof, it actually acts as a living filter," Simmons said. Green roofs, which are ...
Do-It-Yourself: Project Relaxation
Cherokee Sentinel - Murphy,NC,USA... Whether in a city rooftop garden or on a wooded back 40, your retreat can incorporate the sensation of floating on air, island breezes gently rocking you, or ..
July 2006
Rooftop relief
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... There are less obvious advantages to putting a green roof on a building. ... Even so, green roof advocates say subsidies or other incentives are essential. ...
Rooftop Gardening Earns Chicago Another 'No. 1'
Realty Times - TX,USA
... This summer, the city bankrolled a half million dollar Green Roof Improvement Fund that authorizes the Department of Planning and Development to offers awards
Rooftop gardens slowly take root in Toronto
CNN International - USA
Toronto's Green Roof Pilot Program will provide a grant of up to $18,000 for every roof that's planted with grass or other vegetation in an effort to encourage ...
Marina City woman has urban garden with a view
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... The Chicago Theatre is straight below, City Hall's roof garden is just across the way, the Sears Tower seems close enough to touch. "It's peace. ...
INTERVIEW: Paul Kephart of Rana Creek Part II
Inhabitat - USA... Long term, we would like to understand whether living roof structures actually support biodiversity – and we don’t know that yet.
Rooftop gardens cool buildings
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
... Garden experts conducted tests on various buildings around the city and found that those with a roof garden were 3 to 4 degrees cooler inside during the summer ...
Chicago Approves Big Grants for Green-Roof Retrofits
Architectural Record - USA
... In June the city council approved the $500,000 Green Roof Improvement Fund, or GRIFTIF, a tax-increment financing pilot program.
Rooftop herb and vegetable gardening promotes sustainable ...
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada... "You get a cooling effect from a building with a green roof, so it really minimizes the cost of heating and cooling, and esthetically it's a nice thing to have ...
Easy peasy
The Observer - UK... nothing else can attempt to. On my roof garden in Vauxhall I had to garden with the summer very much in mind. It was a cold, exposed ...
Traditional grass lawns receive new, natural makeover
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA... He is now designing a house for a film executive in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles and a rooftop garden for an apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles ...
Pitched green roof at renovated part of Botanic Gardens
Channel News Asia - Singapore
... public. Tanglin Core will have a pitched green roof - Singapore's first - that showcases hardy plants like ferns and orchids. A ...
Green roofs a cool way
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA... On a hot summer day the temperature on a conventional roof can hit 150 degrees, while it's just 80 degrees on a green roof, claims Earth Pledge executive ...
Green Roof Anniversary
WCAV - Charlottesville,VA,USA
Friday marked one year since Albemarle County installed a green roof on top of the county office building on McIntire Road. The ...
Green Roofs
WorldChanging - USA
... point. The biggest roadblock to our green roof future seems to be cost and bureaucratic red tape of city planning laws. Although ...
Students examine benefits of green roofs Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA... "We’re basically recouping that green space on the roof," said Kelly Luckett, the president of Florissant, Mo.-based Green Roof Blocks. ...
How would you roof these buildings?
Professional Roofing - USA
... A three-story material and product storage, on-site fitness and recreation space has a concrete deck designed to support a green roof system. ...
June 2006
Alan Titchmarsh walks on the living roof at Rolls-Royce ...
Easier - Chester,UK
Filming a new TV series, ‘Nature of Britain’, the broadcaster and writer walked the eight acre (22,500 square metres) ‘living roof’ where a number of ...
Largest Green Roof in Bronx Installed by Tecta America Corp.
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
10,000 Square Foot Green Roof on Bronx County Building by Tecta's JP Patti and Magco, Inc. Divisions. NEW YORK, June 23 /PRNewswire ...
New City Hall Features Green Roof, Living Wall
Guelph Tribune - Guelph,ON,Canada
Plans for Guelph's new city hall call for a green roof, a living wall and showers for employees who cycle to work, all in the name of being environmentally ...
Building halted on eco-school as workforce quits site
Times 24 - Herts,UK
... County Council was keen to reassure parents that work would soon recommence on the environmentally-friendly building which includes a wetland and roof garden.
Grassy Rooftops
The Green Guide - New York,NY,USA... If you consider installing a green roof, however, you should be aware that your current roof needs to be able to support 15 pounds per square foot (the weight ...
Rooftop Garden offers great views, food
Indianapolis Star - United States
Views at Rooftop Garden are incredible: pistachio-crusted goat cheese salad, poached Mediterranean salmon with artichoke hearts and sun dried tomato, grouper ...
Two families homeless after fire
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
... director of Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority, said it is believed that the explosion occurred when a contractor hired to dig an underground cable struck a ...
Arup turfs out tiles
Engineer Online - London,UK
As part of British Land ’s Biodiversity Programme, Arup is conducting an experimental ‘green roof’ design trial with a focus on biodiversity, from the .
Green makeover for bus shelters
Sheffield Today - England,UK
... Regeneration charity Groundwork Sheffield planted living roofs on two shelters to highlight a series of green roof events taking place in the city. ...
Times Group building gets 'green' certification
Globe and Mail - Canada... There also will be a rooftop garden, landscaped with grass, flowers and trees, and surrounded by barbecue stations and seating areas. ...
Toyota's "green" efforts extend to cow dung
Reuters - USA... Toyota Roof Garden Co., a Toyota subsidiary charged with manufacturing the product, Menicon and trading firm Toyota Tsusho Corp. ...
Garden Variety: A Nursery with Spine: Get The Point at Cactus ...
Berkeley Daily Planet - Berkeley,CA,USA... It means you can plant them in a place as rough and stressful (for plants) as a rooftop garden, and they’ll stand up to withering winds and constant sun. ...
Taking green to new heights
Seattle Times - United States
By Michelle Theriault. Teresa Williams and David Leppanen's roof is alive. Last fall, the Bellingham couple installed a green roof, and now it's in full bloom. ...
A garden getaway up on the roof
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA... Williams didn’t want to look out on a bare roof, so they decided on a green roof: Something they hoped would be beautiful and functional. ...
Urban forestry lesson from Chicago
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA... The Rooftop Garden, about 12 stories above City Hall, has demonstrably cut building energy costs, especially from cooling, but insulation effects occur ...
How city life should be built-in
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... in the city, have not done so without some outcry - such as the striking Glasshouse hotel in Greenside Place (which, with its rooftop garden and incredible ...
Energy | Green roofs bloom with unexpected benefits | Plant ...
Plant Services - Itasca,IL,USA
... The Ford Dearborn Assembly Plant, Dearborn, Mich. has the world’s largest living roof, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. ...
How green is my roof?
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Even though the installation of a green roof at the Residences of Maple Leaf Square is happening at the behest of the city's planning department, the ...
Green Roof on Baltimore's National Aquarium Provides Habitat for ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
BALTIMORE, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- During a routine maintenance check yesterday, a mallard was found nesting on the newly installed green roof of the National ...
Off the grid, on the green: Saturday event to showcase buildings ...
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
... The living roof will collect and drain water through natural grasses and its unique helix shape - a spiral that starts at the top of the third floor and winds .
SKYLARKS NESTING ON ROLLS-ROYCE LIVING ROOF
PresseBox (Pressemitteilung)(abonnement) - Rastatt,Germany
(box) München, 08.06.2006 - A number of breeding pairs of skylarks have this week begun nesting on the “living roof” of the Rolls-Royce manufacturing ...
Green Roofs On CBC Radio
Greenthinkers.org - USA... Peck, the president of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, and with Camilla Troughten, part of a team that spearheaded the building of a green roof at Jackman ...
Donohoe Center building getting a green roof
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... now an adjacent building, constructed in 1980, is being renovated with the latest conservation technology, including what may be the county's first "green roof ...
University Square plans a 'green' park-like rooftop
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA A "green" roof that will provide a small park-like environment and catch rainwater is the newest design element of the company's $190 million University Square
Big, Fat, Green City
Chicagoist - Chicago,IL,USA
... If you’ve been thinking about installing that green roof, now may be the time. The Chicago Center for Green Technology plans to
Wakefield Straw Bale Building Has Green Roof
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
The big bad wolf may have met his match as the final touches are being made to Wakefield's first permanent straw building. Members ...
Keep It Simple: Alternative energy
Gaylord Herald Times - Gaylord,MI,USA... With the exception of a drawing for and a description of, how to build your own solar pit greenhouse, I have forgotten most everything from that day. ...
Green roof display at Chicago Center for Green Technolgy
Construction and Maintenance News - Minsk,Belarus
Tecta America is working in conjunction with the Chicago Center for Green Technology, CCGT, to install a living green roof display in the lobby of CCGT ...
May 2006
Tecta America Corp. to Install Green Roof Display at Chicago ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... contractor, headquartered in Skokie, is working in conjunction with the Chicago Center for Green Technology [CCGT] to install a living green roof display in ...
ASLA Selects Rain Bird Xerigation System For Headquarters' Green ...
Lawn & Landscape - Cleveland,OH,USA
... late 1990s. A green roof, or “eco-roof,” is a vegetative system that can be placed over new or existing roof structures. It ...
Green up top. NOAA helping river, from its roofs down
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
... on the two main buildings as well. So, how does one install a green roof? On Wednesday morning, volunteers first climbed ladders ...
Condo Development
Metropolis Magazine - New York,NY,USA
... LEED certification. "The green roof is a visible expression of the education and advocacy part of our environmental initiatives. I ...
Growing a green roof
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA... Williams didn't want to look out on a bare roof, so they decided on a green roof: Something they hoped would be beautiful and functional. ...
Living in harmony
Advance of Bucks County - Newtown,PA,USA... Low emission products will be used and the carbon dioxide will be monitored. Green Buildings have a "living roof" where plants can grow and catch water.
Green roofs help control pollution
Baltimore Sun - United States... firm of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc., said, "Sixty percent of landscape architecture is done on structures that could use green roof technology. ...
World-class gardens unveiled
Toronto Town Crier Newspapers - Ontario, Canada
... which opened in December. The city gave it a green award because it has an energy-efficient sloping green roof. Rain that is collected ...
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Washington Post - United States
... the best environmental practices, the ballpark's architects, HOK Sport and Devrouax & Purnell, failed to specify even one symbolic square inch of green roof. ...
US University Promotes 'Green Campus'
Voice of America - USA
... Ball explains the concept of green roof. "The concept of a green roof is to mitigate many of the environmental impacts that occur ...
Green Roof as Art - Tops New Hyde Park Art Center
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
A Green Roof as art and other art projects are now on display at the brand new Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL. Chicago, IL ...
SKYLAND and GARICK Announce Green Roof Partnership
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Development of nationwide rooflite(TM) green roof media availability now a reality BOSTON, MAY 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Roofs For Sustainable Communities ...
Mother Nature has her days of nurture at Grant Park show
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... One tilts at an angle on a garage rooftop so it is visible from ground level. A roof garden designed for a doghouse earned the name "green woof.". ...
Gardening show aims to give hope to urban dwellers with little ...
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... Visitors will learn how they can construct a rooftop garden on their garage, create a container garden on their balcony, even build a Mediterranean-style ...
Dish the dirt and clean up your act
Times Online - UK
... and recycled bricks. Its crowning glory is a 5,600 square metre green roof; a living, breathing meadow of vegetation. Where most ...
April 2006
A West Seattle neighborhood is being transformed
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... build eight housing units near a budding neighborhood center and park complex that will include a basketball court, a picnic shelter with a green roof and an ...
Ohio Gratings Inc. Selected for ASLA Green Roof Project
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Ohio Gratings Inc. to provide the grating for the walking surface on the new green roof in downtown Washington, DC. The aluminum ...
WCI Communities boasts 'greenest home'
Orlando Business Journal - Orlando,FL,USA
... WCI Communities worked closely with the council and is the first builder in Florida to commit to building an entire community of certified green homes at the ...
New Downtown Central Public Library Opens
KCCI.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... computers. The building features 110,000 square feet of library space and is topped with a green roof planted with variegated sedum. ...
A house like few others, all green
Boston Globe - United States
... (There are also green homes in Mansfield, Brockton, and Quincy.) It is being built as part of the council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design -- or ...
Minneapolis City Hall will get 'green' roof
KTSP.com - Saint Paul,MN,USA
The downtown landmark will replace the gravel portion of its roof with a ' green' roof, which will have several types of plants, open space and a deck area. ...
So you want to roof green?
Professional Roofing - USA
... prove challenging. The Seaport Hotel, Boston, features a green roof by Carlisle SynTec Inc., Carlisle, Pa. Professional Roofing ...
A roof system on a Minnesota building demonstrates energy-saving ...
Professional Roofing - USA
... The roof includes four sections: 5,000 square feet (465 m²) of green roof; 20,000 square feet (1858 m²) of white reflective PVC membrane; 3,000 square feet ...
Green living in the Beach
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... on Falling Brook's roof — the top of the six-storey, 43-unit building — making it the only condo building in the Beach with a living, green roof and part ...
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March 2006
From Black to Green
Macalester College The Mac Weekly - St. Paul,MN,USA
Plant life will grow to new heights on campus this spring when a pilot green roof project will be implemented on top of the fishbowl—the link between Turck ...
The Good Life
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription) - Spartanburg,SC,USA
... It was the first house they saw, and with its stacked stone entrance, rocking-chair front porch, red exterior and green roof, it looked as though it was ...
The Revolution will be fertilized... organically
Pulse of the Twin Cities - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... In Germany, about one in eight buildings have a green roof top.". ... What is a green roof? Basically one that's partially or completely covered with plants. ...
The green gospel according to Dave
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... A pitch of up to 25 degrees will support a green roof. Any steeper and you may have a problem with the top layers becoming dehydrated.". ...
Village that is clutching at straw
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... It can also incorporate suggestions from people in the village, as well as the residents themselves. Examples include under-floor heating or a green roof. ...
''Green pioneer, Atwood Courtyard Apartments to Open This ...
Madison Commons - Madison,WI,USA
... by solar panels (providing solar electricity for the building) and surrounded by prairie plantings that absorb stormwater as a "green roof." In keeping ...
The grass is greener up on the roof
Minneapolis Southwest Journal - Minneapolis,MN,USA
By Sarah McKenzie. The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners has approved plans for a green roof demonstration project at City Hall.
American Hydrotech Selected for ASLA Green Roof Project
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has selected American Hydrotech's Garden Roof® assembly for its green roof in downtown ...
Ground broken for estuaries center
Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA
... Also planned is a green roof of indigenous plants that will reuse storm water and help control the buildings' heat gain and loss. ...
Center aims to be 'green' showcase
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... Center. Conceptual designs for the new building call for direct access to the forest and trail system from the "green" roof. The ...
DIY green "roof-roof" for Fido
The Independent Weekly - Durham,NC,USA
... Yep, dogs. Durham's possibly first green roof is on a dog house. ... "Soil" mix for a green roof is actually soilless--otherwise it weighs too much. ...
Raising the (green) roof
The Independent Weekly - Durham,NC,USA
When it comes time to replace ugly asphalt shingles or a tar and gravel roof, do it with what's called a "green roof." It's a shallow expanse of garden that ...
Centre for the Advancement of Green Roof Technology :: BC ...
You are invited to tour the Green Roof Research Facility every 3rd Thursday of the month. ... Green Roof Research in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ...
GSA, NOAA AND OPUS BREAK GROUND FOR NOAA CENTER FOR WEATHER AND
NOAA - Washington,DC,USA
... nation's economic, social and environmental needs." It includes features that demonstrate environmental sensitivities, such as its "green roof" and rainwater ...
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February 2006
'Down on The Corner': Proposed building will house businesses ...
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
... He'd always figured it would be a mix of commercial and residential space, and over time the imaginary building even sprouted a rooftop garden. ...
Building on teens' ambitions
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... by photovoltaic panels; grey water which has been partly recycled through rainwater harvesting; natural ventilation throughout the building and a "green" roof. ...
Campus-wide efforts helping the environment
UConn Advance - Storrs,CT,USA
... One of the creative ideas for the near future -- which will also tap student design ideas -- is to develop at least one "green roof," involving plantings ...
Modern-day homesteader leads 'green' life on University Park ...
Penn State Live - PA,USA
... of living space. It was constructed in about two days by students who created a "living roof" complete with skylight. The walls ...
Rooftops Come Alive
Coast Weekly - Monterey,CA,USA
... Central to this idea is the living roof. Green roofs have been around in Europe for 50 years. ... People will recognize that when they see a living roof.". ...
Wright for rent
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
... In time, Bosben plans to remove the enclosure on the top floor and restore the rooftop garden. If all goes well, he hopes the Lamp ...
Top designer of gardens has Kentucky roots
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... "I made up these little cards that said, 'Jon Carloftis -- Rooftop Garden Designer,' " he said. "I had never been on a roof in my ...
Portland's Green Scene The Pacific Northwest Has Much to Teach
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA
... "Everyone is so excited about it," says Maitri Ersson, who participated in a project to build a sanctuary at the New Day School with a "living roof" made of ...
Garden Clippings Spray, drip or still, water enhances a garden
Tampa Bay Newspapers - Seminole,FL,USA
By RUTH DAVIES. The sound of water can be very relaxing, if it is in a garden setting not the faucet or leaking roof. Water features ...
We live on the ground floor presently and...
Express Estates - New Delhi,India
... How should we go about making a terrace garden? First identify the area or part of the terrace where you plan to have the terrace or roof garden. ...
Top of the crops
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... desirable object. A rooftop garden is the height of chic, especially if accompanied by a penthouse apartment with harbour or city views.
Discovery uses new material for expansion
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... drain tubes. The Discovery Center will use the water to flush the museum's toilets and water its rooftop garden. It's the first ...
Rye research makes Toronto greenest in North America
The Eyeopener - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Toronto is North America's leader when it comes to developing green roof technology, thanks to Ryerson research. An announcement ...
Library roof scaled back; Higher construction costs strain budget
Newszap Arizona - AZ,USA
... A living roof in the original design called for layers of earth, grasses and desert plants to cover a textile membrane, so the tipped roof would blend in with ...
Sail of the century
BBC News - UK
... being pushed to encourage such a far-reaching expansion of back-garden power by ... A rooftop turbine currently costs about £1,500 - an up-front cost that's too ...
How I see it
Professional Roofing - USA
... There is a "green roof" revolution under way, which, in some cases, borders on marketing delirium. As roofing professionals, we ...
Well blow me -- it's a house made of straw!
Leeds Today - Leeds,UK
... Mirfield. The proposed building will have a living roof (made from turf), reed bed toilets, wind turbines and its own wells. Mr ...
Roof garden planned for Epstein's site
Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,NJ,USA
MORRISTOWN -- State-of-the-art energy-saving techniques and a landscaped, garden-style roof would be some of the highlights of an office building and parking ...
Conference to stress building `green'
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... Among the few: a proposed museum at the onetime segregated Virginia Key Beach Park, still in the conceptual stage, which would have a green roof -- a roof ...
City of Toronto leads North America with new Green Roof Policy
Canadian Architect - Toronto,Canada
"Green Roofs for Healthy Cities congratulates Mayor David Miller and Toronto City Council for adopting the first comprehensive set of green roof policies in ...
Greenhouse? No, a house that's 'green'
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... cordwood and other environmentally sound construction techniques, and the book has hundreds of images of everything from site clearing to creating a living roof ...
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Recognize Industry Leaders and Visionary Ideas!
In addition to our Green Roof Awards of Excellence program, which recognizes six outstanding green roof projects every year, we have a new Award for Excellence in Green Roof Research, and a new nomination process for the Green Roof Civic Award of Excellence.
Click on the award type for more information and to download the submission form:
2006 Green Roof Awards of Excellence(deadline to submit: Feb.15)
2006 Green Roof Civic Award of Excellence(deadline to submit: Feb.28)
2006 Green Roof Research Award of Excellence(deadline to submit: Feb.28)
Welcome to Garden Top News for January 2006
Green roof tops off campus, new skyline
Sentinel Online (subscription) - Kennesaw,GA,USA
A new, state-of-the-art Social Science building will open on campus early next year. At a 'topping out' luncheon held on the first ...
Raising the roof
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... But the market for green roof plants, while small, is growing. Chicago put a green roof on its City Hall in 2000, and since then ...
Nominations open for 2006 Green Roof Awards of Excellence
Canadian Architect - Toronto,Canada
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities established the Green Roof Awards of Excellence in 2003 to recognize green roof projects which exhibit extraordinary leadership ...
Green roof project takes off
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
And at her True Nature Foods, 6034 N. Broadway, the veggies and herbs will grow literally on the premises -- in a green roof capping the store. ...
Homeowners moving more to solar energy use
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
... incorporates ''green design" features such as a green roof, bioretention landscaping, tankless hot water heaters and bathroom tiles made from recycled ...
Duggar family's new digs
Arkansas Traveler (subscription) - Fayetteville,AR,USA
... Sitting on 20 acres of land, a sparkling white exterior and bright green roof set the house apart from its natural surroundings. ...
Rooftop garden gets boost from Waverly
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - Waterloo,IA,USA
WAVERLY --- The city will give the Waverly Health Center $40,000 for a rooftop garden and community arts pavilion. Tendrils Rooftop ...
Anne Gwynne: Holy Land Blues
Palestine Chronicle - Mountlake Terrace,WA,USA
... Of course the restaurateur would not hear of us leaving without dinner, and there in the family's roof-garden we shared a memorable meal cooked on charcoal ...
Autodesk predicts a green clean future
Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
... The use of renewable on-site energy is expected to increase over 200 percent in the next five years, with use of vegetated or green roof covers increasing by ...
Rooftop Garden Recycles Water
Discovery Channel - USA
... The Green Roof Water Recycle System, or GROW, was invented by Chris Shirley-Smith, who founded Water Works UK and who is currently collaborating with ...
When is a shed not a shed?
Toronto Star - Canada
... working on a book called Shed Style, and has been documenting the "new garden oasis ... a pea gravel courtyard and it was topped by a gorgeously aged red tile roof. ...
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City of Chicago Presents First-Ever Green Roof Award to ShoreBank
Chicago -
Chicago – ShoreBank was awarded a $5,000 green roof grant from the city of Chicago to go toward green roof design and installation for its new branch scheduled to open later this year at 79th and Racine. Once completed, the new branch in Chicago's Auburn-Gresham neighborhood will be the first and only LEED certified bank building in the city and one of the first of its kind in the country.
"Green roofs are environmentally friendly and help reduce energy consumption," said Anne Arvia, President and CEO of ShoreBank. Green roofs warm buildings in the winter and cool them off in the summer, reduce and slow storm-water run-off, and lessen the "urban heat island" effect that contributes to air pollution. ShoreBank was only one of 20 businesses and homeowners to win a first-ever green roof grant from the city of Chicago's Department of Environment.
To encourage energy conservation and help homeowners reduce energy costs, last fall ShoreBank introduced its Home Energy Conservation program, an innovative mortgage rehab product that enables homeowners to roll the cost of energy-saving improvements and a mortgage into one, a single-, long-term plan.
"The grants, offered here for the first-time will increase the amount of green space in Chicago and help make Chicago the greenest city in the U.S.," said Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner of the city of Chicago's Department of Environment.
More details can be found at cityofchicago.org/environment.
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Call for Papers -
2007 Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities
Conference in Minneapolis, MN
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities is looking for papers for their Fifth Annual
International Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Cities Conference, Awards
and Trade Show April 29, 30, May 1, 2, 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The
Conference will raise awareness of the many benefits of green roofs, share
new research findings, provide information on the latest designs,
implementation techniques and products, and broaden networks while working
towards building more sustainable cities through green roof implementation.
Conference streams fall under Policy, Design and Case Studies, and Research.
Abstracts are due by September 29th, 2006, final papers by January 5th,
2007.
Submission requirements:
A 300-word abstract and 50-word biography by September 29, 2006.
Click here for more details: http://www.greenroofs.org/