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2007 Garden Top News
December
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By anna paradis(anna paradis)
He also shares some of his most inspiring work, including the world’s largest green roof (at the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan), and the entire sustainable cities he’s designing in China. Architect William McDonough believes that ...
Tired of paying energy bills?
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
... its own solar and wind power, while minimizing energy needs through a vegetated green roof, structural insulated panel construction and other features.
Xmas tree goes green
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
... with headquarters in Rockefeller Plaza, New York), announced the installation of a green roof atop Radio City Music Hall that will minimise waste water
Retail buildings can be zero-carbon by 2020 - but only at a cost
Retail Bulletin - Croydon,UK
For example, the supermarkets of the future could have a 'green roof' with trees and plants - even including organic vegetables - growing there, ...
Tip No. 94 of 100: Build green roofs
Carroll County Times (subscription) - Westminster,MD,USA
According to Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a green roof infrastructure industry association, a green roof system is an extension of the existing roof that
Green structure goes up in forest
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
The building has a "green roof" that is planted with native grasses, prickly pear and other plants that tolerate drought. The plants absorb much of the rain ...
Experiment in Green Building Goes Undercover in NC Home
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
"The big ticket items are new appliances, solar panels, a green roof - but there's payback," she said, specifically citing lower utility bills. ...
'A Simple, Practical Solution'
Voice of San Diego - San Diego,CA,USA
Green roof technology has been popular in Europe for 30 years, and is used in some North American cities including New York, Chicago, Toronto, and Portland, ...
Cities cultivate 2 types of green
USA Today - USA
He photographs the progress of seedlings he planted on the roof, one of his first "green roof" installations, and explains how roofs covered by soil and ...
School goes green as a civics lesson
Michigan Business Review - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
From using environmentally friendly cleaning products to planning for a new green roof, this private Kalamazoo school of about 85 students in preschool ...
Green building to take root
Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
The building will have things such as a green roof, with a cover of perennial plants and hearty succulents. That helps with water retention, reduced heat
Firm tied to local redevelopment takes part in green building
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston,SC,USA
"The big-ticket items are new appliances, solar panels, a green roof — but there's payback," she said, specifically citing lower utility bills
'Green roof' to top redevelopment project
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign,IL,USA
Work on a "green roof" that will top a two-story building undergoing redevelopment at 112 E. Washington St. started Thursday, when five Hicksii yews and two ...
Turning a roof into a garden in the sky
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
This aerial hedge and lawn are part of one of the green roof areas at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Going green improves the visual impact of a roof and ...
TTC rockets toward green
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
In June, the commission approved a green roof (covered in plants for cooling) for the Victoria Park station redevelopment, and a cool roof (covered with a ...
Turning a roof into a garden in the sky
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
This aerial hedge and lawn are part of one of the green roof areas at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Going green improves the visual impact of a roof and ...
Want a 'green' house? Here's a guide
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
"And Metrostop [metrostop.com] has all Energy Star appliances and a 'green' roof, a green lawn instead of a concrete or rubber roof.
What works to cut data centre energy usage
ITWorld Canada - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
NSOF's green roof helps reduce storm water runoff and improves the building's insulation. But NOAA has run into some problems maintaining the roof's plants ...
Greenhouses are being used in nontraditional ways by hobbyists
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
Even those who use them for gardening can have ambitious plans. "One person in the Dakotas grows his own coffee. His whole greenhouse is coffee (trees). ...
A green industry is growing...on the roof
MSU Today - East Lansing,MI,USA
by Gordon Shetler, Student writer "The green roof industry is growing rapidly," according to Brad Rowe, an MSU horticulture professor and chairperson of the
November
Greenhouse Effect
Times Online - UK
Your gardening interests and aspirations should be the starting point if you, too, are contemplating installing a new greenhouse – and this is the perfect ...
Clinton Library Builds 'Green' Roof
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA
Soon, he'll have a green roof to go with it. Over the past two weeks, workers in Little Rock have been using a crane to hoist 90 species of plants and more ...
Hardy Succulents Take on a New Glow
New York Times - United States
EVER since I looked out over the meadow of sedums blooming two summers ago on a green roof in Greenwich Village — one of the first residential green-roof ...
A green industry is growing...on the roof, MSU researcher says
MSU Today - East Lansing,MI,USA
"The green roof industry is growing rapidly," according to Brad Rowe, a Michigan State University horticulture professor and chairperson of the Green Roofs ...
Audio interview with Jim Lindell of Westin Solutions
By acm454
I am here with Jim Lindell, the national marketing director for Westin Solutions of Green Grid, Green Roof Systems, who is one of hundreds of exhibitors here at the Greenbuild 2007 Expo at McCormick Place.
Next thing that may go green? Your roof
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA
A green roof is planted with vegetation to allow for water absorption and are widely used in Europe. Supposedly, green roofs last twice as long as ...
Smart Home Dorm Opens Its Doors
Duke University - Durham,NC,USA
A green roof comprised of living plants that will insulate the home from the cold of winter and the heat of summer. The roof's soil also pre-filters water ...
'Green Roof' is a First in Northern Montgomery County
Earthtimes - London,UK
7 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Montgomery County's first non-residential green roof has been successfully installed in a three-story office building by Therrien ...
Cool roofs can earn grants
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
The city also will continue its Green Roof program. This year's allocation will provide $100000 in grants (or about 20 grants of $5000 each) to install a ...
Need to Weed Your Roof?
TIME - USA
... there is one less quantifiable metric that argues even more persuasively for the value of the green roof: the psychological boost that city dwellers can ...
PS 41 green roof gets green light
The Villager - New York,NY,USA
Jonathan Rose is currently working on more than 10 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) projects and constructing two green-roof projects ...
Garden shed makeover
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
If the roof is sound then give consideration to a living roof of sedums. They are supplied in carpet form and have proved to be a success at our Gardeners' ...
Downtown Diary: Green Acre
Newspaper Tree - El Paso,TX,USA
I intend to speak with the residents of my building, A rooftop garden would be ideal but we haven't had roof access for years (it'sa long story involving a ...
OlyBond 500 Green Roof Insulation Adhesive Uses Rapidly Renewable ...
OMG, Inc., a leading manufacturer of fasteners and building products for the commercial and residential construction industry, has unveiled a new environmentally friendly insulation adhesive availab...
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities offers courses on green roof ...
Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
It will talk about best practices associated with waterproofing and drainage to ensure the integrity of a green roof. And, it will cover testing and quality ...
Turf roof is a main attraction
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
But the undulating green roof, planted with four native ground covers and five local wildflowers, will be a destination in itself. And in some ways, ...
Green grows the new roof in a city first
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
The green roof installation was architect Brian Pape's latest effort to redevelop the historic building with environmentally friendly features.
The art of the living roof
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
A green roof at a Sherman Oaks home hides pool equipment. Succulents create a textural landscape that appears to be part of the canyon behind. ...
Green roof enhances house's uniqueness
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... chives (Allium schoenoprasum) and round-leaf rock flower (Talinum calycinum), all from Emory Knoll Farms and Green Roof Plants near Street, ...
Geneva firm wins landscape award
Aurora Beacon News - Aurora,IL,USA
A conceptual site plan was prepared to include a green roof garden area to showcase the variety of plant material and soil mixes for use in roof garden ...
Green light for solar roof on station development
Scotsman - United Kingdom
A NEW "green" roof including solar panels and rainwater re-use is planned for Edinburgh's main railway station, The Scotsman can reveal. .
Anglesey school first to go eco-friendly
Daily Post - Llandudno Junction,UK
Other features will include solar photovoltaic roof tiles, a wind turbine and a green roof, which will provide a natural habitat for plants and insects. ...
Turning a Roof Into a Garden in the Sky
Washington Post - United States
The benefits of gardening on the roof are so many that the Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging cities to start roof garden programs.
October
Charter school goes green in big way
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
"It is actually a garden roof. There are two kinds. One has real earth that is quite deep, a foot or more deep, that you can do any kind of gardening on
Lessons from green roofs at St. Paul and Elk River schools
Twin Cities Planet - Minneapolis,Minnesota,USA
... explained in a speech that he had asked students how they felt about the green roof. One student urged that the school start a gardening club. ...
Soil instead of shingles
Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
The green-roof concept, Hawke said, expands those efforts. "We want to show we're environmentally friendly and be good stewards for the community," he said. ...
'Green' museum gets kudos
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
The other half is a still-growing "green roof," composed of 30 tons of soil and plants, which should absorb about 80 percent of the rainwater that would run ...
Neenan tests green roof concept
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
Working with Colorado Live Green Roof and Gulley Greenhouse, the company began the project in March, growing the plants in the greenhouse, ...
'Green roof' researched at SIUE figures in TV show
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA
Retzlaff doesn't know whether he'll be shown working, but the green roof is prominently displayed and discussed by TV carpenter Paul DiMeo. ...
Stevenson teacher to incorporate green roof into classroom project
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
By Abby Scalf | Daily Herald Staff But once it's installed, no one will be able to see the green roof. That is, unless they study the temperature in the ...
Penn Sprouts Green Roof
BusinessWeek - USA
The 12000-square-foot green roof, which covers 20 percent of the Radian's total footprint, was designed primarily to satisfy the city's storm water control ...
BUSINESS OF GREEN
International Herald Tribune - France
Creating a green roof, or living roof, involves putting down soil and plants on top of buildings - apartment blocks, corporate headquarters, even private ...
Green-roof guru delivers the gospel
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
By James Bruggers With the city of Louisville moving forward with its first "green roof," Mayor Jerry Abramson welcomed one of the movement's leading ...
Keep cool with a green roof
News Wales - Knighton,UK
Cardiff University research has found that buildings green with vegetation can reduce the temperature of cities. The Welsh School of Architecture research ...
Chicago's green cred is good, but not platinum
Chicago Tribune - United States
But look beyond the tourist-friendly facade of median planters on Michigan Avenue and the much-publicized green roof atop City Hall and you run into some ...
Top benefits from green roof
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
Regina's Warehouse District is about to get a little bit more green as construction of Regina's first green roof is underway. The environmentally friendly ...
Botanical garden to grow a dream
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
The conservation aspect, said Matheson, will be apparent in its construction: with a "green" roof covering almost half the new structure, a verdant plain ...
Going Green Can Start At The Top
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
In some cases, you may not know you're walking on a green roof. These gardens are beautiful and functional. The plants absorb carbon dioxide and produce ...
What a green roof really does
By Tempo
They put a green roof on their Washington, DC, headquarters in April of 2006 and hooked it up to monitors to see what good it really did. (Elmhurst's Conservation Design Forum was a consultant on the project.) ...
School Designers Looking Into "Green" Roof
Ellsworth American - Ellsworth,ME,USA
A green roof is a roof with plants grown on top. The costs for the roof would come from the locally approved funds last June designated for a geothermal ...
Hedge in the clouds
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Another one is the green roof on our bungalow. All that moss. It used to drive my dad crazy. These days, green roofs have an altogether different meaning. ...
Strawberries, Birds, Bees Find Home on SF Museum's Green Roof
Bloomberg - USA
By Stephen West Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The roof of the new California Academy of Sciences building in San Francisco is sprouting. Designed by Renzo Piano,
Teeny town scores huge 'green' honor
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
The building, which has been open for more than a year, has eco-friendly features from top to bottom, from the green roof to the geothermal heating and ...
Going green, 'living roof' is environmentally friendly
Buffalo News - NY, United States
By Aaron Besecker - NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU Charles Lewis/Buffalo News Workers from Lichtenfels Nursery of Johnstown, Pa., install green roof on landscape ...
A glimmer of gold in a veritable sea of green
Bend Bulletin (subscription) - Bend,OR,USA
A "green roof," planned for planting in the spring, will help insulate it from the outdoor heat and cold. • Solar ledges over the windows on some exposures ...
Center gets noticed for being green
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Green roof: An acre-wide roof made of recycled paper, dirt and 40000 drought resistant native sedum plants. It reduces storm water runoff and mitigates the ..
NORTH TONAWANDA: Up on the (Green) roof
Tonawanda News - North Tonawanda,NY,USA
The Kueblers of North Tonawanda held a demonstration event Wednesday afternoon to introduce and explain the new "green roof" that will cover the new ...
Tours planned of green roof test site
Albany Democrat Herald - Albany,OR,USA
... a primary reason that many city governments are interested in green roofs, said Erin Shroll, the lead researcher on OSU's Green Roof Technology project.
The building is small, its environmental stance big
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
The first LEED platinum building in Atlanta, at 427/429 Edgewood Ave, has a green roof (right) and a 1550-gallon cistern that captures rainwater. ...
No space for a garden? No problem!
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
Her vegetable garden consisted of tomatoes and basil, stuck in trash bags full of soil on her apartment roof. "The next year I added eggplant
Grass grows on roof of green home
Wisconsin Dells Events - Wisconsin Dells,WI,USA
As if the transition to country life wasn'ta big enough experiment, the couple decided to build an earth-sheltered home on 10 acres where they had once come ...
An archaeology major into modern rooftop gardening
Detroit Free Press - United States
So perhaps it's not too surprising that another of his curious pastimes this summer involved raising crops on the roof of one of Detroit's downtown office ...
New heights in gardening
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
High above the streets of NDG, a vegetable garden has sprouted on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Health Centre. Since July, the garden has produced more ...
'Green' roofs could cool warming cities
By Jules Siegel
Atlanta, GA installed a green roof on its City Hall. Covering city buildings in vegetation – creating "green roofs" and walls – could substantially save energy by reducing the need for air conditioning on hot days, say researchers.
'Green Roof' should be considered for Saenger Theatre
PensacolaNewsJournal.com - FL
15 Pensacola News Journal, I thought of an innovative way to renovate the old theater: "a green roof," a statement our city could make concerning the ...
Red Hook is turning green
Brooklyn Papers - Brooklyn,NY,USA
This year, he will replace the tar and gravel top on his two-story Linda Tool and Dye metal fabrication factory with a lushly planted "green roof. ...
Denver's Second Green-Roof Building Scheduled to Open October 1
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UMB Bank Colorado, na, a chartered bank of UMB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: UMBF), announces a new "green" banking center at ..
A Green Firm Grows
Rapid Growth - Grand Rabids,MI,USA
What's more, the national movement toward green roof installations is generating new opportunities and jobs for a variety of suppliers, contractors, ...
"Green" Lazarus building gets national accolade
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The 1 million-square-foot downtown landmark, which now features a rainwater filtering system and a 15000-square-foot "green roof," has garnered national ...
Flora may enrich Aderhold's roof
Red and Black - Athens,GA,USA
He said the green roof assignment is a service learning project, meaning it aims to get students out into the community to benefit learning. ...
September
Green Roof Valuation: A Probabilistic Economic Analysis of ...
By damageva
Proper valuation of these benefits can reduce the present value of a green roof if investors look beyond the upfront capital costs. In this paper a net present value (NPV) analysis comparing a conventional roof system to a green roof ...
Topping Off, for the Environment
Washington Post - United States
Mondell and Williamson, the first to get a "green" roof approved by Montgomery's storm water regulators, are enthusiastic converts to a growing movement of ...
'Green' roof tops city's Community Legacy wish list
Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland,MD,USA
Just ahead of that request is the top priority at $123000 for a "green" roof on the Allegany County Human Resources Development Commission building that's
TS Quatro building green roof, brownstones in downtown Ypsilanti
Metromode Media - metro detroit,MI,USA
The design-and-build contracting firm plans to renovate its headquarters at 201 North Park St., by adding an expansive green roof and then building a ...
Landscape Architects' Green Roof Kept Runoff Out of DC Sewers
Environment News Service - USA
When the figures were tallied in May, the new green roof was found to have retained thousands of gallons of stormwater, reduced building energy costs by ...
Roofs - good places to plot
Online Athens (subscription) - Athens,GA,USA
UGA landscape architecture professor Alfie Vick and a group of his graduate students researched and created designs for a "green roof," including garden ...
Greenhouse Gardening is the Perfect Way to Beat the Elements
PR-GB.com (press release) - Sofia,Bulgaria
This is because the whole roof area will catch the sun's rays as it rises in the east and travels across the greenhouse. Are you mainly interested in ...
Toward greener pastures
Chicago Daily Southtown - Chicago,IL,USA
Next spring, in keeping with Cook County's green initiative, the inmate gardeners will install and maintain a 1200-square-foot garden on the roof of ...
A garden rooted on the rooftop
Globe and Mail - Canada
Even with the soggy situation in British Columbia, the rooftop garden and green roof trend has been slowly growing for years. ...
Tupari Mara - preserving the memories of plants
Times Online - Auckland - New Zealand
Keen travellers, the owners were inspired by other cultures and climates and in 1970 their gardening philosophy was considered somewhat unusual.
countering climate change Sustainability drive
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Dean Chuck Albanese is now raising money for the building's partial green roof, paired with space for experimentation with roof coatings, sun shades and ...
A real leafy roof
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
Owners Ron and Joanne Gallagher wanted a "green roof" because it is energy efficient, eco-friendly, lasting and just plain attractive.
Living lab on school roof
Macomb Daily - Mount Clemens,MI,USA
As part of an experimental process, the maintenance building for Fraser Public Schools will become a green roof covered with vegetation and soil planted ...
New Ferguson school to go green
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
The roof includes a "green roof to manage stormwater," limiting runoff, Barnhardt said. A green roof refers to a vegetated roof covering consisting of a ...
Council mows down green roof proposal
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
"Not one of us is installing a solar heater, PV panels or a green roof on our own homes because of the cost." Nauser also spearheaded an effort to drop ...
A think tank for gardeners
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
But a green roof will soak up 50 to 70 percent of that water." Additionally, green roofs remove pollution from the air, dampen sound waves and extend the ...
How did my garden grow?
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
Someone else worried about paint and roofing material in the soil, which I scoffed at ... until I start digging up bits of roof while planting the peppers. ...
Her Woods: Woman's spectacular backyard garden shows Asian influence
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
The roof was created by cutting and layering Ondura, a corrugated asphalt roofing material that comes in large sheets. The roof mimics tile or split bamboo.
Sustainable Gardening: An Edible Garden Tour
Kitsap Sun (Subscription) - WA, United States Rain collected from the house roof and driveway is stored in cisterns and a pond. Buried pipes carry the water to watering troughs in the garden, ...
Green roofs sprouting new adherents
Globe and Mail - Canada
... renovated the Gastown building that is home to his Blood Alley restaurant Salt, as well as his large upstairs living space, he opted for a green roof. ...
A new source of inspiration
By dcblooming(dcblooming)
A green roof is also a source of oxygen and provides a habitat for some birds. Birds and insects can find homes much more readily in the living environment of a green roof, where an ordinary roof is nearly barren. ...
India's Greenest Airport
BusinessWeek - USA
A parking garage with a green roof will create what the designers describe as a "green gate" to the terminal. "The folding geometry of the green roof ...
New Bracebridge Sportsplex may get a green roof
Huntsville Forester - Ontario, Canada
A proposal to establish a green roof was initiated by the Muskoka Heritage Foundation, Leo Broere, culture and recreation manager, said at the Aug. ...
Condo Living: Ah, There's the Shrub
Express from The Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
Sedums are a resilient genus of plant that, due to their ability to tolerate drought and filter pollution, are well-suited to green roof use. ...
CLC goes green
Waukegan News Sun - Waukegan,IL,USA
The designer of green roofs in Chicago will be presenting the Introduction to Green Roof Technology Seminar at the Southlake Educational Center from 9 am to
Fire hall goes green
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
A project to build an environmentally-friendly "green roof" on the fire hall and make other improvements to township buildings is nearly complete. ...
August 2007
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities plants seeds for professional ...
Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities plans to launch an accreditation program for people who wish to advertise themselves as green roof professionals. ..
'The River' runs green -- and it's not alone
Boston Globe - United States
However, the station's new Brighton headquarters has been built with a "green" roof that incorporates vegetation for natural insulation, water-thrifty ...
Bay Area gets on top of green roof trend
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA
By Janis Mara, Business Writer Dan Antonioli, a green building and ecological design expert, shows off the green roof he has set up on his own Oakland ...
Commentary: Follow the leader?
Eden Prairie News - Eden Prairie,MN,USA
The world's largest green roof is at the Ford Rouge truck plant in Michigan; its 10.4 acres of living roof has a drought resistant perennial groundcover ...
Foliage-packed 'green roofs' to debut in Coconut Creek's MainStreet
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
The green roof strategy is only one aspect of the city's larger trend toward environmental consciousness: The city is already designated a community ...
Rain Master Irrigates Largest "Green" Roof in California
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
SIMI VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As part of its commitment to a healthier environment and its ongoing efforts to reduce carbon emissions, ...
* POL POSITION: Save green by going green, Costa Mesa shows way
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
In efforts to set an example, a Green Roof and Solar project are scheduled as part of the 2008 budget. The benefits to the city include energy efficiency ...
Council rejects plan to try green roof at Community Center.
Eden Prairie News - Eden Prairie,MN,USA
Though initially out of the plans for the new Community Center construction, the possibility of a green roof popped up again during Eden Prairie City ...
New PHA Senior Development is Totally Green
American Digital Networks (press release) - Annapolis,MD,USA
The new senior development, to be located at 25th and Glenwood, will have a 20000 square foot "green roof" with natural vegetation three inches deep. ...
Chicago Building's Green Roof Offers Benefits With Beauty
WISC - Madison,WI,USA
The green roof of "The Residences at 900 North Michigan" is full of native plants, ornamental grasses and flowers that will bloom year-round. ...
New Green Roof Opens On Magnificent Mile Building
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
Mayor Richard M. Daley Tuesday morning cut the ribbon on a new green roof 150 feet above the Magnificent Mile. As CBS 2's Diann Burns reports, ...
~~Fear of a Green House
By Philip Proefrock
It includes such green features as "solar panels, recycled materials and a living 'green' roof." But, it is more likely that the resistance against this house was based on its general appearance, rather than specifically wanting to ...
Couple gets city's first green roof
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
By KELLIE BRAMLET Thanks to CJP Architects Inc. and McCann Construction Co., the couple are the owner of Springfield's first green roof. ...
'Green' office renovation comes to downtown Ann Arbor
Michigan Business Review - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
... claim to three firsts for downtown Ann Arbor: First green roof, first geothermal heating and cooling system and first LEED-certified office building. ...
Albemarle's Green Roof Two Years Later
NBC 29 News - Charlottesville,VA,USA
"We've got now, complete coverage of the green roof, which is what we expected after two years," said Albemarle County senior planner Sean Dougherty.
Green roofs keep cities cooler
ABS CBN News - Philippines
The "green roof" technology is not new to humankind, the researchers said. "Reminding us of the six-century BC magnificent Hanging Gardens of Babylon of its ...
Lehigh wants 'planted roof'
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, a green roof is made of vegetation and soil planted over a waterproof surface. ...
Green Gas Stations
BusinessWeek - USA
... it produces energy via photovoltaics, captures rainwater for irrigation, and reduces the urban heat island effect with a drought-tolerant green roof. ...
Cost of 'green roof' sparks council debate
Mississauga News - Ontario, Canada
Which side prevails will determine whether Mississauga Transit's expanded facility gets a green roof. The expansion project involves extensive development ...
Green roofs: Keeping cool with eye appeal
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
This grouping of plants is on the roof of a park building in Coralville, Iowa, just one example of a "green roof." Although more often seen in large ...
Going Green On the Roof
MyFox Milwaukee - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The rooftop of 809 Broadway has been turned into a "green roof." When the city-owned building needed a new roof, the mayor decided to buck tradition and go
July 2007
Green roofs are an environmentally conscious option for build
Altoona Mirror - Altoona,PA,USA
Runoff from the green roof over the root cellar is collected and piped to a basin where the water quantity and quality can be monitored, as well as plant ...
Couple find it's easy building 'green'
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
The "green, living" roof will drain into a whole-house graywater system that reuses shower and clothes washer water to sprinkle the lawn and flush toilets.
Catholic campuses (still) going green
By Sam Hodges
The building has carpeting made from recycled plastics, a green roof covered with small plants to filter and purify rainwater and a carbon dioxide detection system that can tell if a room is occupied, and then adjust the airflow ...
Home & Dining Channel: Offbeat Style, 3rd Edition
By Jennifer Chait
It is earth sheltered with a green roof, which goes into the side of the hill it is built against... Herbs, grasses, succulents and flowers grow on the roof. Honey, strawberries and eggs are just three edibles that go from the roof to ...
California Academy of Sciences to feature a 'living roof'
By Jolly
The building's green roof will provide an undulating huge living space. This roof will not only provide better ambience but also provide sustainable benefits and great insulation. The roof will also be able to maintain the temperature ...
Babylon: Pavement Paradises
By Heather McDougal(Heather McDougal)
Another, similar idea is the Green Roof movement, which looks back at traditional sod-roofed houses to solve some of the problems of urban water runoff. Plants on the roof help absorb rainwater, keeping the runoff from causing floods ...
In New Jersey, the 'Backyard' Up on the Roof
New York Times - United States
Oddly Placed Green Spaces A two-family building on Tremont Avenue, East Orange, with a green roof. "Everybody wants a place to have a cup of coffee in the ...
'Green' roof can help reduce utility costs
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
A green roof, one that's home to growing plants, isn'ta new idea, but it's gaining traction now in some cities seeking to lower downtown temperatures
Green acres is the roof for them
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
ELLIE: And Michelle said, "We can do a green roof on this house!" Of course we jumped on the idea. Q. Why did you think it was an interesting idea? ...
A business below, a garden above
Buffalo News - NY, United States
The owner of Mr. Fox Tire Co. is converting a portion of the expansive roof into a green oasis -- a "green roof." By doing so, Fox is bringing to Buffalo an ...
YRA plants 'green roof' technology for new terminal
Cody Enterprise - Cody,WY,USA
"It's called a 'green roof,' but this one would not be irrigated," said architect Jim Wertman of CTA Architects in Billings, which is designing the new ...
Nature center officials hope roof comes up green Joplin Globe - Joplin,MO,USA
It's the green roof on top of the new Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon Center in Wildcat Park. "We have planted four drought-resistant species that we ...
Green roof bids prove expensive
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
By SETH SLABAUGH MUNCIE -- Bids opened on Monday for a partial green roof on the Delaware County Justice Center were higher than expected. ...
Green roofs not entirely understood
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... Jim Watson, technical manager for the organization, appreciates why insurers are suddenly expressing concern about green roof development. ...
the green roof revolution
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Kerry Ross of Alberta Eco Roof is planting June grass in the Calgary Technology Inc. built demonstration green roof plot for research purposes. ...
Green roof tops off new law building
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada Unlike an intensive green roof, which requires significant maintenance, the building's extensive roofs include low-maintenance plants that will also survive
West Virginia University Buildings Getting High Tech/Green Renovations
AZoBuild - Sydney,Australia
In addition, a "green roof" reduces heating and cooling loads on the facility and increases the roof's life span. This technology also filters pollutants ...
Gardening up on the roof, where it's peaceful and practical
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Dean Fosdick For AP Succulents, including cactus, are generally the plants of choice for green roof projects, like the demonstration garden on the roof ...
Sci-Fi Hotel in an Abandoned Chinese Quarry
By Hank Green The green roof would also keep the hotel cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Even cooler, because the quarry was dug so deep, it will be relatively inexpensive to harness the geothermal energy of the site. ...
It's alive!
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
By Edward M. Eveld Ellie and Dick Dawson have installed a true "green roof'' on the sunroom and original side porch, shown here, at their home in Kansas ...
City to spend up to $450000 on grass-covered rooftop
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
This "green roof" will not come cheap. Architects estimate it will cost $400000 to $450000, significantly more than an alternative method using a metallic
ENVIRONMENT-US: Growing Oases in the Sky Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy He's calculated the green roof cost to be approximately twice that of tried and true methods of roof construction. But the payoff, he believes, ...
Backyards Getting Greener
Alameda Sun - Alameda,CA,USA
"However, they don't realize that a living roof does the job much more effectively. Plants actually help cool their surroundings through a process known as ...
Peas and quiet in a Yorkshire eco lodge
Times Online - UK
The mostly wooden lodges were built with timber from sustainable woodlands and have a "living roof" of turf and plants to improve insulation - this also ...
Gardening up on the roof, where it's peaceful and practical
Prince George Citizen - Prince George,British Columbia,Canada
The new Ford Rouge Dearborn, Mich., truck assembly plant has what its architects say is the largest "living roof" in the world, a 10-acre surface planted ...
California Academy of Sciences aspires to set green standard
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
By Terence Chea AP SAN FRANCISCO - Built with recycled materials, powered by sunlight and covered with a "living roof" of native plants, the new home of the ...
Garden tour will plant ideas
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
It features spectacular views of the Bristol Hills and nearby horse farms, plus Rochester's first roof garden. A former horse farm on a hilltop in Victor ...
eco 18
By Green Guy
ft. green roof garden on the fourth-floor roof. In the units, the eco-sensitive push continues with dual flush toilets, low-flow showers, low water consumption front-load clothes washers and aerator faucets for reduced water consumption .
Kids learn a green roof makes for a clean harbor
Boston Globe - United States
Michael and his science classmates from the Warren-Prescott School in Charlestown installed 25 planters as part of a growing green-roof project atop City ...
Honeywell helps housing agency go green
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Honeywell will also opt for green roof systems on some of the almost 800 housing authority buildings, which include high-rise apartments, single-family ...
It's alive! And it insulates your home and reduces water runoff
Wilton Villager - CT
Their green-roof project is small in the scheme of things, but they subscribe to the theory that the sum of small changes can make a big difference. ...
Malls getting a little greener
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Management even considered installing a green roof with plants to absorb sun and carbon dioxide but decided that wouldn't be a feasible option until the
Using carbon credits to make a difference
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
She's trying to scrape together money to retrofit her 1920s two-storey with solar panels and a green roof. "We're looking into whatever we can find," she ...
June 2007
St. Louis Community College in Wildwood to debut with roof of ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Green Roof Blocks, a subsidiary of St. Louis Metalworks in Florissant, provided the permanent containers for the plants. When the roof is working as ...
Local BP station sets good example with 'green' roofs
Baltimore Sun - United States
The green roof on the Mikulski Workforce Development Center at the Living Classrooms Foundation's campus near Fells Point is sloped, so people can see the ...
Green roof award
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
The plant-covered roof at Sanitation District No.1 in Fort Wright was awarded a Green Roof Award of Excellence by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities earlier ...
The Greening of New York's Roofs
Resident Publications - New York,NY,USA
The biggest green roof in New York City--at 35000 square feet--sits on top of Silvercup Studios, a movie and TV production studio in Long Island City.
Spinach powered house
FreshPlaza - Netherlands
It has a landscaped roof garden designed to collect and filter stormwater . It recycles black and grey water to be used in garden, which in turn provide ...
California Academy of Sciences aspires to set green standard
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By TERENCE CHEA AP Writer SAN FRANCISCO--Built with recycled materials, powered by sunlight and covered with a "living roof" of native plants, ...
SAN FRANCISCO / $20 million gift for 'living roof'
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The Bernard Osher Foundation has given $20 million to the California Academy of Sciences to support the "living roof" and the four-story "living rain ...
Roof puts down roots
Hour.ca - Canada
Last week the borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce unveiled the first city-built green roof in Montreal. Is this a sign of things to come? ...
Wildwood: Community college building to have "green" roof
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
The "green" roof will be the first on a college campus in the St. Louis area, officials said. Classes will start in August at the new building,
Text: New Green In Wildwood
MyFox Saint Louis - Saint Louis,MO,USA
Even below this literally green roof are more "green" options: from the recycling of paper, natural light and even raindrops. Four, 20-thousand gallon ...
Friday's Berlow column: Is a green makeover in store for Gaines ...
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
The oldest green roof in the United States, atop Rockefeller Center in New York, dates to the 1930s, an Orlando environmental engineer who designs green ...
Beautifying with Rooftop and Community Gardens
Cooperator - New York,NY,USA
A roof garden is an exciting way to create beauty in an unused space, but there are several technicalities to consider with this option. ...
Eco-Effective Decisions: Raise the Green Roof, Lower your Urban ...
Green Options blog - Berkeley,CA,USA
Raise the Green Roof: Green roofs benefit our environment as the aforementioned plants do; and, since they are so high up they intercept the heat before it ...
'Home for the future' winner on show
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK ... water recycling systems, automatic insulated shutters to cover double glazing for added heat control, with a plant-sheltered roof terrace and green roof.
Green roof task force formed
Journal of Commerce - Burnaby,BC,Canada
A green roof task force has been formed and will likely be coming forward in the future with recommendations. One immediate problem that appeared was the ...
The library's lighter load
Indianapolis Star - United States
Bill Brown, an architect with Browning Day, said foam provides a safe engineering solution because the weight of people on top of a green roof is nothing ...
Pa. grant sought for local roof 'greening'
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA
The green roof is not a cymbal crash cut in energy use, warned Mary Gattis Schell, a senior planner with the county. Nor is it a miracle cure for ...
A roof garden makes your home greener
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
To encourage more city dwellers to 'green' their roof spaces, the show introduced a 'roof garden' category for its prestigious awards this year. ...
Dramatic Living Roof Installed Atop New California Academy of ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- 06/07/07 -- Installation is now underway on the largest living roof in California, a 2.5-acre expanse of native plants atop the new ...
Grass ceiling / Sustainability tour
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
Now Supplee and Niederman are adding a green, "living" roof to their house - just in time for the tour - with the help of North Carolina-based Xero Flor ...
Dramatic Living Roof Installed Atop New California Academy of ...
Web Services Journal - Montvale,NJ,USA
Hailed as the most complicated living roof ever constructed by architects and contractors alike, the roof features seven dramatic hills blanketed with nine ...
Global interest in green roofs "rapidly expanding"
By Girl on The Avenue
Global interest in green roofs and green walls is expanding rapidly according Dr Manfred Kohler, re-elected Chairman of the World Green Roof Infrastructure Network (WGRIN). Dr Kohler is from the University of Applied Sciences, ...
City of Waco getting the first "Green Roof" in Central Texas
KCEN-TV - Eddy,TX,USA
In Waco, the new Chamber of Commerce building that's under construction will have the first 'Green Roof' in Central Texas. "Well you might expect a building ...
County looks to sky for green solutions
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA
The county is partnering with several public and private property owners to secure state funds for a "green roof" program that aims to cover conventional ...
Green roof gets no takers
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
Proposals for the up-to $1.5 million job could include an alternate green roof that would feature vegetation meant to reduce heat, both in and outside the ...
Hospital plants its roof
The Grand Rapids Press - Grand Rapids,MI,USA Three dozen workers Saturday morning dotted the 48500 square feet of light, gravelly soil with sedums and allium, finishing the second largest green roof in
Downtown Public Square wins national award for "green roof"
San Antonio Business Journal - San Antonio,TX,USA
Nashville has taken top honors in an international "green roof" competition for downtown Public Square, which also serves as the roof to a five-level ...
'Cole crops' close to harvest
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA Store in a perforated plastic bag in the refrigerator or root cellar for several months. Cauliflower -- Tie outer leaves together over the heads when they ...
Go Green With A Rooftop Garden
WOAI - San Antonio,TX,USA
Not every roof is built to stand the weight of a roof garden, but those that are are potential fields of hope for environmentally improving the world in ...
Roof gardens
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
The Ismaili Centre Roof Garden is one of more than 160 private London gardens that are opening their gates to the public for the popular Open Garden Squares ...
FWCS should adopt green construction policy Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA A proper green roof, however, can greatly reduce heating and cooling costs. For example, in hot weather, the plants on top of a green roof transpire with a ...
Green Roofs Playing a Greater Role in American Cities
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA
The study says the EPA is currently working on a report detailing national policies and practices relevant to green roof projects and incentives. ..
May 2007
Greenfields developments stay green
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
According to the company, the new plant features the world's largest living roof -- about 500000 square metres -- planted with a perennial called sedum, ...
The garden on the roof
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Across town in Point St. Charles, landscape architect Juliette Patterson built a green roof atop the century-old former bank where she lives - complete with ...
Green roofs a growing trend
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
You might also think of a "green roof" as one using some form of "green" technology, such as solar panels or a photovoltaic module. ...
New Downtown Indianapolis Condo Project to Have Green Roof
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis,IN,USA
A new condominium development near downtown Indianapolis has designed what it calls and extensive green roof that is aimed at helping the environment. ...
Money isn't the only green here GOING GREEN EARTH-FRIENDLY BANK
Fredericksburg.com - Fredericksburg,VA,USA "The star of the show is the green roof," he said. Along a large section of flat roof on the back of the building, rows of succulent sedum plants grow in
Moss is bliss: just let it grow on you
Times Online - UK It will be recycled and have a permanent home as a roof garden. “It will provide an informal meeting space for Amnesty staff and visitors.
New tourist haven for food and farming
Weston & Somerset Mercury - eston-super-Mare,Somerset,UK
The main buildings have been designed to blend in with the environment and have many energy saving and green systems, including a huge grass roof on one.
Dursley will be the greenest in country
Gloucestershire Gazette - Dursley,England,UK A grass roof, which will absorb water to flush the school toilets, is planned and a biomass burner using woodchips from sustainable forests will provide
Green roof possible for Delaware County Justice Center
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
MUNCIE -- Delaware County commissioners are considering replacing the gravel ballast roof on the county justice center with a green roof covered with ...
Green roofs not covered by BC insurers
Journal of Commerce - Burnaby,BC,Canada
It has arranged a one-day conference for a cross section of the “green roof community” for May 29th at the Bayshore Inn. ...
Hainesport teen to compete in international science fair
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
His project, titled “Project Green Roof,” explores the idea of putting soil and plants on top of buildings. The soil and plants absorb rainwater and slowly ...
The new Social Security building is being crafted to embrace the ...
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
The "green roof" will consist of up to 85000 square feet of drought-tolerant vegetation planted in a four- to six-inch layer of soil, a technique that ...
Study to explore best green roof design
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
“The main purpose of a green roof is to reduce the volume of stormwater meeting our waterways, but it also benefits air quality, insulation and attracts ...
California Academy of Sciences Green Roof: Let the Planting Begin!
WorldChanging - USA ... Restoration and Living Architecture, a known leader among "green roofers," with a huge portfolio of gorgeous and impressive living roof projects.
'Green' gas station opens in Locust Point
Washington Business Journal - Washington,DC,USA The 6000-square-foot facility on 1465 Key Highway, which includes a BP gas station, Quiznos Sub shop, and Chesapeake Market, features a "living roof." ...
Green roof plan takes root with PS 41 students The Villager - New York,NY,USA
The celebration served as the kickoff event to the school’s participation in the Adopt a School Garden Program under which it hopes to install a green roof. ...
Green-roofing can help grow bottom line
Business Edge - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
The green-roof industry blossomed more than 25 per cent in 2006, with more than three million sq. ft. of the environmentally friendly roofing material ...
Target Center roof would be great in green
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Prospects for putting a "green" roof on the Target Center truly are exciting, not simply because creating a more efficient and environmentally friendly
Davenport police going green with new station
Quad-Cities Online - Rock Island,IL,USA
Built with several environmentally friendly amenities, including a "green roof," the station will earn a wealth of points as a Leadership in Energy ...
'Green roof' research takes root
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
In addition to the Forest Resources Building project, installed by Scott's Landscaping Inc., a 1920s-era root cellar near Tyson Building is being capped by ...
Gardeners can discover inner path to savings
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
One way to save money on your water bill is to attach a barrel to your home's downspout to catch rainwater. Ideally, the barrel would have a spigot for easy ...
April
Students Aim to Stop Global Warming
Fairfield Citizen-News - Fairfield,CT,USA
A green roof or living roof is a roof with grass or plants on it. "A living roof drastically improves the insulation of the building," said Deenihan. ...
City hosts Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities conference
Minneapolis Skyway - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Minneapolis is hosting an event this week that organizers expect to be the largest ever gathering of green roof professionals under one regular roof. ...
Ford Motor Company outlines its top 10 green initiatives
Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
World’s Largest Green Roof – Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant has the World’s Largest Living Roof, according to Guinness World Records. The 10.4-acre living roof ...
Home-grown herbs can complement a cook's favorite ethnic cuisine
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
Both are in the midst of a big remodel, and Satkoff is looking forward to a spacious roof garden. Chef Roland Liccioni of Le Francais restaurant in Wheeling
'Green' developers vow to press on
Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria,BC,Canada
In five to eight years, he expects heating and ventilation savings will make up for the additional costs of the green roof. "But this is my first green roof ...
House so green roof would need mowing
Winnipeg Sun - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
By JOYANNE PURSAGA. "Instead of shingles, we have a rubberized membrane that sits on top of the plywood. We'll plant grass on it and it will become part of ...
Green roof innovation awards
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK The Green Roof Innovation Awards are offering architects and planners the opportunity to design innovative green roofs that challenge the way we think about
Centre gets the green green grass of home
Hampstead and Highgate Express - London,England,UK
Tube Lines, which is in charge of building the centre for London Underground, claims that at 1900sqm it is the biggest green roof in London.
Insurance concerns threaten green roofs
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
"There is absolutely nothing about a green-roof assembly that would put the building envelope at risk," Peck said in a phone interview. ...
Not your ordinary roof
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
Ridgeway Pavilion, part of the Health Alliance complex in Avondale, is getting a green roof replacement for the original concrete roof built on the 1984
Backyard experiment #3: cheap green roof
By Girl on The Avenue
I’ve started a garden on my rooftop: a very simple and cheap one. I picked up some large rectangular plastic containers from the hardware ($12 each) and drilled holes in the bottom. I chucked them on the north-facing lean-to roof and ...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Opens 'Green Roof' Employee ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The Detroit National Walk @ Lunch Day walk will be the first event held on the "green roof" of the Blues' parking garage. The environmentally-friendly roof ..
Plant my roof, stretch my green
CNNMoney.com - USA
Experts say a green roof can save up to 10 percent on a building's energy costs, mostly by keeping it cool during the summer and reducing the burden on air ...
Lean green rehab machine
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago,IL,USA
They are also putting on a green roof, but it's a do-it-yourself green roof that costs $10000, versus the $36000 it can cost to have one installed. ...
BC's green roofs run afoul of insurers
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
It has also provoked everything from bemusement to confusion to outrage in the green-roof industry and its supporting cast of environmental advocates.
Green Roof Industry Grows by More Than 25% in 2006 with Over 100 ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
TORONTO, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the North American green roof industry association is pleased to announce the ...
Shops go green on top
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
The newly planted grass will remain fenced off for the next six weeks, while detailed plans for the roof garden will be released later this year. ...
Green Summit puts emphasis on sustainability
Arizona State University - Tempe,USA
The city of Tempe, for example, will feature its transportation center, which will open in 2008 with sustainable elements, such as a living roof.
Arena to include green roof
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
The living roof is a curved structure covered with a layer of sedum, a succulent plant, and other organic material. The plants have been specially chosen to ...
Dayton grad goes green in big way
McMinnville News-Register - McMinnville,OR,USA... a roof garden and low-pollution paints and carpeting. Recycling is encouraged throughout the building - everything from office paper to rainwater,
Green treatment given to site of Brightwater sewage treatment plant
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
... the roof and cisterns to collect rainwater. A demonstration garden will nurture native plants that homeowners can grow to attract butterflies and birds. ...
San Francisco's New Academy of Sciences Goes 'Green'
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
One of the most distinctive features of the new Academy is the "living roof" which rises 40 feet in the air and includes mounds and hills planted with ...
The grass will be greener...
Crewe Guardian - Cheshire,UK
A GRASS roof is just one of the innovative designs included in blueprints for the new £24m building at Culcheth High School. Building Design Partnership has ...
Ramstein mall, hotel complex construction problems mount
Stars and Stripes - Washington,DC,USA
Base officials said the “green roof” would retain water better and help slash energy costs, but Sheehan and Waterman said the contractor didn’t install it
Seeds for green roof bylaw planted
Richmond Review - Richmond,British Columbia,Canada
This week the planning committee told staff to include in the study green roof projects already completed in Richmond and whether green roofs have an impact
Going For The Green
Leesburg Today - Leesburg,VA,USA
One of the most prominent features on HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus is a "green roof" that uses plants native to Loudoun and retains 98 percent of the ...
Experts: Green roof can aid stormwater problem
Phoenixville News - Phoenixville,PA,USA
The green roof can work particularly well in commercial applications where the roofs are typically large and flat. The firm is currently designing a green ...
Sinnissippi Park raises almost half of the $7M for remodel
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA
The goal is to make the conservatory a “green” building built with recyclable materials, solar energy panels and a small rooftop garden. ...
Master Gardeners: Pepper your spring garden with seeds of ...
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA In the midst of the Bay Area buzzes a sustainable garden that is a joy to behold and hosts a plethora of birds, butterflies and bees
Poppy love
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
If your garden is turning into a chore, here are some simple steps you can take to cut down tedious tasks and make it a therapeutic pleasure again. ...
Easy Being Green
BusinessWeek - USA
When you don't have a roof over your head, you're probably not going to order, say, a hydroponic thermal-mass green roof. But the city's new Global Green ...
When the walls have leaves and the roof is in full flower
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The square footage of green roof projects in North America grew by 72 per cent between 2004 and 2005 to about 2.5 million square feet, according to a 2006
March
City considers routes toward sustainability
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Green on top: Green roof projects, like this one that covers the underground parking garage at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, can reduce storm-water runoff
Brown the new green at school
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
But the new Sharrow School will advance the environmental principle of a "green" roof, which uses plants to provide insulation and a habitat for some ...
Green top suggested for Lowe's building
Middletown Press - Middletown,CT,USA
CROWMELL - An environmental analysis of the proposed Lowe's store has suggested the store have a "green" roof - have grass, plants, and/or flowers growing .
The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
As nursery manager for Rana Creek Habitat Restoration, an ecological design firm, Mr. Scollan is one of a growing number of green roof gardeners. ...
SF garden show gets a pruning
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
In "Live the Life that is Provence," check out the living roof on the little shed that mixes pennisetum "Fairy Tales," sedum "Pink Jewel" and "Limelight"
Green lid for Target Center?
Twin Cities Finance and Commerce - Minneapolis,MN,USA
That’s because the city of Minneapolis is considering putting a green roof on the Target Center, the city-owned arena that hosts the Minnesota Timberwolves ...
Onto greener rooftops
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
But if Van Til gets his wish, the rooftop area could be converted to a rooftop garden, which would include plants, a walking path, a pond and picnic tables. ...
’Seeds Have Been Sown for Plant Companys Demonstration Green Roof
San Diego Business Journal - CA,USA
An environmentally friendly green roof familiar to Europeans has been planted at the Good Earth Plant Co. in Kearny Mesa as a small step toward reducing the ...
Green Roof Resource Takes Action To Expand UK Knowledge Base.
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,US
The Living roofs.org Green Roof Forum has been added in response to the increasing demand for information on the subject from local government, ...
CSU research finds benefits to green roofs
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
s unsuccessful attempt to install a green roof. Research by one of her students determined the brewery had used the wrong soil and nutrient mix and plant ...
St. Paul school warms to idea for green roof on gymnasium
Twin Cities Finance and Commerce - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Karen Rusthoven was skeptical when she first heard the idea of putting a green roof on her school’s soon-to-be-built gymnasium.
Chicago's LEED Silver Green Exchange: Hybrid Parking Only?
Green Options blog - Berkeley,CA,USA
There will be a 9.000 square foot sky garden, solar panels on the roof, and a roof garden. A rainwater cistern will collect water for the gardens and ...
Grass Is Greener Up On The Roof
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
And there is a rooftop garden where real grass and dirt provide top-notch insulation and UV protection. Shelby Navarro says you might be the only on your ...
Physical limitations? Adapt the garden area
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
They can be installed where plants don't usually grow -- such as on a roof garden or over a cemented area -- or stacked in a limited space. ...
Photos from Yard, Garden and Patio Show
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
But the showstopper of the event was definitely this living roof... Maybe someday I'll do our garage roof like this: what a beautiful thing to look out on ...
Forget hot tin roof, these will be 'green'
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA That’s because each building will feature a “green roof” - essentially, a roof covered with plants. Proponents say green roofs - which are gaining
$300000 Grant to Further Support Green Roof Development in Three ...
AZoBuild - Sydney,Australia
"Each of these cities has demonstrated leadership in embracing green roof infrastructure. This funding will allow Earth Pledge to establish new research ...
Green Building Tour: Green Building Surfaces
By Philip Proefrock
A green roof will provide more habitat for insects and birds than a conventionally constructed roof. Green roofs help to slow water runoff from buildings which would otherwise go into storm sewers. They also reduce heat island effect ...
February
How the project is shaping up
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
A 15000-square-foot rooftop garden on the 7 th floor that improves air quality. It has 60 varieties of plants, whose numbers are in the thousands. ...
Slices of Heaven
Plenty Magazine - New York City,NY,USA
... workshop and is still under construction. The living roof is made from a salvaged satellite dish covered with rubber, carpet scraps, straw and turf.
How to Build the Green Way Not quite sure where I...
By Kik :)(Kik :))
Minimizing heat islands, green roof, drought tolerant plants. Rule 6:Design for greater green Maximize of day lighting, Operable windows and skylights enable natural ventilation. Rule 7:Take advantage of Technology ...
Green roofs: designs with decorative pebbles
Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
As part of an increasingly popular trend, Edaw Gillespies’ designers created a green roof that transformed the crowded and dark urban structure into a green ...
Fulton St. firm looks to expand, add 'green' roof
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA
This so-called "green roof" may be the first on a commercial building in the county, president and chief executive officer Rick Seavey says. ...
Over the top
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
"The green roof is a new idea for this area, so to get people used to it, we're starting small and showing it on a shed," says Bill Swanson,
Green ideas take root at new CRD building
Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria,BC,Canada
The new CRD building on the corner of Fisgard and Government streets will have a distinctly green tinge to it if plans to incorporate a green roof and ...
Roofs Paved with Green
BusinessWeek - USA
Hagerman's simplified modular green roof system will be used to turn the roof of the Pablo Neruda Academy, in the Bronx, into an outdoor classroom for ...
Are green roofs catching on?
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA
If the term “green roof” evokes an image of a few potted plants arranged tastefully on the top of a building, then the time seems ripe to rethink that ...
Beginner's Guide: Green Roofs
Find a Property - USA
A porous roof reduces the volume and rate of rainwater that normally pours off a hard surfaced roof, lessening the risk of flash flooding. ...
Straw bale house slated for McCrory Gardens will host classes ...
SDSU Collegian - Brookings,SD,USA
The house will also have a living roof, made up of plants and vegetation. The walls will be stacked straw bales covered in stucco both inside and out. ...
Park doubles as nature's teaching tool
Oakland Press - Pontiac,MI,USA
The center will have a passive solar or "green roof," rain gardens to absorb runoff from the roof and permeable paving in the 40-car parking lot. ...
Are green roofs catching on?
Rocklin and Roseville Today - Rocklin,CA,USA
If the term "green roof" evokes an image of a few potted plants arranged tastefully on the top of a building, then the time seems ripe to rethink that
Sodding for sustainability on campus rooftops
Daily Trojan Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The California Science Center School implemented a green roof with their new school building in June 2004, said Tony Budrovich, the center's deputy director ...
A green roof for Sandburg Hall
UWM Post - Milwaukee,WI,USA
Construction is pegged to begin on an environmentally-sound green roof for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Sandburg Hall Commons, a UWM administrator ...
Painstakingly 'green'
Bridgewater Courier News - Bridgewater,NJ,USA
A living "green roof" area that will attract birds and help provide insulation, as well as prolong the life of the roof. The green roof will be planted with ...
Green Roof Policy Development Workshop
It will also provide a framework for planners and governmental agencies to gain an understanding of the multi-faceted impacts of green roofs and areas of consideration for implementing green roof policy. Tuition is $95 or $45 for NGO's ...
Award Winning Chicago Green Building
By Philip Proefrock
The outdoor patio has permeable pavers and the garage has a green roof. It's also nice how the building design respects the neighboring buildings, with a two-story gabled front elevation (matching the neighbors) and the more modern ...
Overview: Cleveland Home & Garden Show
By Blackswamp_Girl(Blackswamp_Girl)
The second picture shows a green roof that was visible from a second story walkway. The grass courtyard surrounded by square planting beds is pretty, but I couldn't help but think there are more practical planting options than grass ...
Professional planners hear benefits of going green
Beaufort Gazette - Beaufort,SC,USA
The center has a number of novel features, including a stormwater cistern that collects water for irrigation, a rooftop garden for stormwater retention and ...
NEWARK: St. Philip's Academy opens environmentally friendly campus
Episcopal News Service - New York,NY,USA
The gym's rooftop garden, dubbed the "Outdoor Environmental Center," reduces storm water run-off. Trees planted on the roof help shade the school and reduce ...
Towards a Worldbuilding Pattern Language
WorldChanging - USA
In many cases, the name of the pattern itself conveys a directive version of its solution (ie, "Main Gateway" or "Roof Garden"). ...
A Tax Break For A Garden On Your Roof It's True
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA
His proposal offers a 25 percent credit against the cost of installing a green roof system, including the multi-layer assembly, waterproof membranes, ...
From the Daily: It's over your head
Michigan Daily - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
A green roof consists of plants, has a natural drainage system and can last up to 60 years without maintenance. Considering average shingling only lasts ...
The New American Home's best-kept secret: The roof
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
And although it's too early to tell how well the 300-square-foot green roof will fare over time, it counts as an important factor toward the home's
Green Roof Shows University's Ecological Commitment PA Farm News - Quarryville,PA,USA "Many older cities have sewage-treatment problems, and their sewage systems often overflow with stormwater," he says. "Green roofs absorb and hold some of ...
A planted "yard" up above it all
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
... which draws birds, butterflies, ladybugs and squirrels. And how about this: A green-roof garden requires none of the work its earthbound cousin does
30 Jan, 2007 - Seventh British Snowdome Given Go Ahead
Ifyouski.com - UK
Once completed, the new centre could have the largest grass roof in the UK. The roof will help to insulate the new ski centre and collect rainwater which ...
Earth First Radicals Bully CEOs
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
... spending $2 billion to overhaul the sprawling River Rouge, Mich., Ford complex and put in a 10-acre grass roof to capture rainwater. ...
Skyscraper Sunday: LEED Candidate MintoSkyy (Toronto)
By Preston D K
Also, the building will rely heavily on recycled materials, environmentally friendly paints, and a green roof (which reduces heating + cooling costs). Located at Broadview + Pottery Road in Toronto, this 23-story condo tower looks ...
Our Changing Weather
By ahsblog
Work can go ahead on turning the large expanse of garage roof we look at into a “green roof” once we can decide which type of growing medium will be required. The present debate is between either an all alpine roof or one that
Green Roof Plants, a Resource and Planting Guide
By silvertreelandscapes
This is sort of a supplement to another book, Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls by Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury (Timber Press 2004 ISBN 0-88192-640-X). It is, as the title claims, a compendium of suitable plants to grow on a ...
SF JOINS THE GREEN TREND
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
There's also the curvaceous "green" roof that will be cloaked in 1.7 million seedlings, including beach strawberries and golden poppies; Italian architect ...
4th Volume Of Urban Habitats Now Available Online
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
Jeremy Lundholm suggests that green roof designers should look to natural analogs of manmade environments, especially rock outcrop habitats such as cliffs, ...
A DIY green roof, atop a shed or a doghouse
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
If installing a green roof on your house is just too expensive, or impractical, how about a do-it-yourself job on a much - much - smaller scale? .
Environmental science building moves forward
Lehigh University The Brown and White - Bethlehem,PA,USA
On top of the building, students relax in the sun on the green roof – grass which also insulates the temperature inside. Large panes of glass let sunlight ...
South Africa: In the Concrete Jungle There's Aroof Garden
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
And there, on top of the provincial building in Dorp Street which houses the environment department, is an indigenous roof garden. It's a young garden, ...
Sprinkler system soaks the Perelman
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
No fire was found, but water released Tuesday sometime between 11 and 11:30 pm soaked through the rooftop garden into the theater, its stage, ...
A design idea too good to hide
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Lowe's, 140000 square feet with rooftop parking and a 16000-square-foot rooftop garden, will front on Iverson Way and include landscaping, terraced beds ...
LEED-ING BY EXAMPLE: GREEN BUILDING GROWS UP
CityLimits.org - USA
... to escape from the building’s walls where mold might otherwise grow; and a rooftop garden further insulates the building and strengthens the roof. ...
Ecotourism goes urban
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
The rooftop garden , for instance , will be installed next summer. The restaurant and the spa are slated to open next month. ...
Green on high
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Planted roofs absorb up to 70 percent of rainwater, greatly reducing the runoff that floods streams and sewer systems. The roof's soil neutralizes acid rain ...
Green roofs bud into stylish bloom
Newconsumer.com - London,London,UK
There are two main types of green roof, or 'living roof' as they're sometimes known. The first is 'intensive' - roof gardens and terraces that can include ...
January
Pastor's green ideas could renew Gothic Revival church
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The solar panels would reduce the church's heating bill, which runs as high as $10000 a year; the roof garden would control runoff and help insulate the ...
~~Levitt Goodman House
It has a large and beautiful green roof, recycled materials, and is designed for cross-ventilation so that air conditioning is not required. Toronto houses usually get light only from the front and back, so the first floor is designed ...
Web resources for cost-effective roofing
Plant Services - Itasca,IL,USA
Because the deadload on the roof is important, the site also has a link to Green Roof Stormwater Tool, a free download that quantifies the split between ...
Students put Ecomagination to work
Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
A University of Michigan student team's green roof proposal is one of 10 finalists in the first mtvU and GE Ecomagination Challenge. ...
Dramm Waters Green Roof Initiative in California
ClickPress (press release) - UK
Dramm Irrigation Systems has been selected to irrigate green roof projects as part of a California environmental initiative. ...
Paradise in winter
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
Schnurbusch, who has maintained the greenhouse for 29 years, brags that the indoor garden is a place to retreat from the snow and see some green. ...
Offering Plan for New York's Newest Green Condo Tower Accepted and ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
The building will also harvest rainwater and store 10000 gallons of recycled water for irrigation of a rooftop garden, which itself will provide an ...
Rocketts Landing Going Green on Top
Style Weekly - Richmond,VA,USA
Among three green roof options to be offered, two will boast live plants as the visible roofing material. None will require mowing, according to the builder ...
Datacentres slowly going green in the US
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
It’s called a “green roof” and it involves putting 8-10cm of dirt on the roof and planting bush-type, drought-resistant plants. It will cost AISO.net about ..
Beyond The Green Corporation
BusinessWeek - USA
complex, putting on a 10-acre grass roof to capture rainwater. Ford also donated $25 million to Conservation International for an environmental center.
US Tesco building to sport "world's largest" solar roof
engadget - Santa Monica,CA,USA
Unbeknownst to most, we are lovers of our planet Earth and depend so much on solar power that we're often compared to the mighty Birdman. ...
For a fast start on a spring garden, sow seed indoors
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
Just before the freezing weather set in, I took a metal watering can that had filled with rainwater and sprinkled the California poppy seedlings growing in ...
Garden grows up on the roof
The Union of Grass Valley - Grass Valley/Nevada City,CA,USA
"This is because the living roof provides so much insulation. It keeps the rooftop cool in summer and warm in winter." ...
GREEN ROOFS HOLD WATER
By THE CONSERVATIVE VICTORY(THE CONSERVATIVE VICTORY)
A green roof can be installed on any building, so long as the structure can take the ... Whereas in some cases the cost of a green roof is comparable to more ... Yet plans are afoot to bring the World Green Roof Conference to London ...
Green Hosting Company Adds Green Roof to Solar Mix
By Environmental Leader
Internet services provider AISO.net plans to put about three to four inches of dirt on the roof of its data center and plant bush-type, drought-resistant plants...
Living green walls
ELT had a living wall demonstration project at BCIT's Center for the Advancement of Green Roof Technology this past summer. The living wall panel was planted with a mix of native | 
