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Green Roof Collaborative - Office of Sustainability - Tufts University
Green roofs are roofs with vegetation on them. They can be extensive, which means they have soil 2-6 inches thick and very short plants, or they can be intensive, which means they have at least 6 inches of soil and can hold a larger variety of plants. What are the benefits of green roofs?
Specializing in living, sustainable building technologies such as green roofs and living walls; beginning in 2001 ELT consulted and installed a variety of green roof systems enabling us to identify reoccurring obstacles in the green roof industry—flexibility, cost, and weight. Designing our green roof system to address these issues provides the end-user a system with maximum benefits in the most cost-effective manner possible. ELT has since developed our living wall system to deal with the barriers associated with steep slopes and vertical applications.
ELT Easy Green
Gotham Greens is a New York City based company dedicated to growing the highest quality vegetables and culinary herbs for local restaurants and retailers. Gotham Greens’ premium quality, pesticide-free vegetables and herbs are grown in sterile rooftop greenhouses using clean, renewable energy. Gotham Greens products can be found in local retail and dining establishments that are committed to providing their customers with the freshest and finest foods available. Learn More →
Gotham Greens :: Local and sustainable produce grown in the heart of NYC
The Science Barge is a prototype, sustainable urban farm and environmental education center. It is the only fully functioning demonstration of renewable energy supporting sustainable food production in New York City. The Science Barge grows tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce with zero net carbon emissions, zero chemical pesticides, and zero runoff. From May to October 2007, the Science Barge hosted over 3,000 schoolchildren from all five New York boroughs as well as surrounding counties as part of our environmental education program.
New York Sun Works: The Science Barge
Home - Green Walls & Green Roofs - Plant Connection
Plant Connection had the wonderful privilege and honor to create a living wall at the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, Jerome L. Greene Family Center in Manhattan. Hope Lodge wanted to expand on their outdoor terrace and provide guests the opportunity to connect with nature for therapeutic benefits.
Please take a look through our catalog for a list of the sedum species we carry for the 2011 season. We will also take special orders with advanced notice.
Sedum Master - Catalog
Motherplants is a woman-owned nursery in upstate New York, dedicated to growing plants for green roofs. We specialize in the drought-tolerant, shallow rooted species adapted to extensive and semi-extensive living roofs. We have many species of plug-size plants in stock, and are happy to custom grow any species not in stock, for your project.
MotherPlants - A Green Roof for your Building
National Reach Through our network of trusted, experienced grower-partners; Emory Knoll Farms can deliver to most of North America, from within the 500 mile LEED requirement. We provide a single point of contact and can deliver plants for locally, regionally, and nationally-based customers. And of course, this means the same commitment to quality, service, and horticultural expertise that has made us the national leader for Green Roof Plants.
Emory Knoll Farms
Professional Program in Sustainable Design — UC Berkeley Extension
Note: The Professional Program in Sustainable Design is being discontinued, effective May 1, 2012. No further registrations for the program will be accepted after that date. For all questions, email designarts@unex.berkeley.edu or call (415) 284-1041. Resource use associated with the industrial development of the past 150 years has the potential to dramatically compromise ecosystems that create and support life on this planet. As society attempts to rapidly change course within existing sociocultural structures and frameworks, green building and sustainable design emerge as ways to reduce the impact of our built environment. Sustainable design seeks to reintegrate human processes with the forms and patterns of natural living systems to create stability and abundance for future generations.
Green design will save the world | Inhabitat
One World Trade Center, whose completion has been consistently delayed, has finally reached 100 stories high. The green skyscraper rises on the 16 acre site that once held the Twin Towers. When completed,Green building news -- Environmental building news -- Green energy and LEED news -- Green product news covered by GreenSource Magazine
Green and Environmental Building NewsWhat does a 21st century home look like? We recently gave a rundown of some of the features we can expect in the next wave of amazing, green houses (in 21 Ways To Build A 21st Century Home) . But since we’re already in the 21st Century, you’d expect to see some of these innovations put into practice already. And you’d be right. Here are 15 amazing futuristic innovations that you can see at work right now: Modular Manufacture .
Creative Future Green Home Designs and Plans | EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion
The idea of a greener world is starting to get in the minds of many people because it’s inevitable not to see that we are danger due to global warming. Green has begun to draw the attention of architects who will have to build greener buildings and structures. One of the best concepts is called Vegetated Architecture or Veg.itecture.
Veg.itecture - The Green Buildings Of The Future
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Digging through the archives based on the last couple of posts, I was definitely struck by the myriad shapes and sizes that these vertical farming proposals take and the overall excitem ent that has grown in a short amount of time. This caused me to want to dissect them a bit further in terms of form and function for growing food in efficient ways. First a bit of background from the 'invention' of vertical farming on t his video featuring Dr.Faroe Islands, Near Denmark Green roofs are not new; they have been used for thousands of years because they helped insulate, thrived in the sun instead of rotting, and other than the increased structure, they were cheap as, well, the dirt that they were planted in. Then flat roofs came in and were covered in tar and asphalt, which needed a lot of maintenance. Engineers and architects didn't worry much about them; nobody could see them. Roofs became parking lots for equipment.