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March 19, 2005
Green Roofs
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Earth Pledge, the New York City based environmental group, has just come out with an exciting new book on green roofs. Using examples from around the world, 'Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construction' makes the case for elegant, innovative, green roof solutions to some of our environmental problems. These lavishly illustrated projects from countries as distant as Japan and Sweden bring home how far green roof technology has come in the past few years. The Europeans and Japanese seem to be ahead of us in both numbers and sophistication of roofs. But with the prospect that the expanded Javits Convention Center is going to have the largest green roof in the country, New York may be catching up. It could be time for all of us to get on the bandwagon and vegetate our own roofs. To see what that might look like, go to the website for Greening Gotham, which has, along with some great information on the subject, an engaging little bit of animation which lets you "green" up some Manhattan roofs.
Link: Earth Pledge
Posted by gardenguidenyc at March 19, 2005 10:04 PM