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October 2010
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Read our latest press release: Greenroofs.com Announces the "2010 Top 10 List of Hot Trends in Greenroof & Greenwall Design." I presented it a couple of weeks ago in Mexico City at the WGIN World Green Roof Congress and will be presenting it on Monday in Singapore for the 2010 International Skyrise Greenery Conference, and both Haven and I will be hand for the 8th Annual 2010 Green Roof and Green Wall Conference - CitiesAlive! in Vancouver, B.C. in December.

Speaking of Mexico City and the WGIN World Green Roof Congress - it was a wonderful event, very well organized with a delightful welcome ceremony, interesting and informative speaker sessions, and a long but fun day of touring the City's greenroofs and walls. I'm working on a couple of Sky Gardens Blog posts about our visit, so stay tuned!

And speaking of Singapore, we're on our way! Aramis and I are extremely excited to visit clean, green, Singapore - Garden City of Asia, participate in this timely 2010 International Skyrise Greenery Conference, visit awesome living architecture on the tour plus all the other sightseeing we'll be doing here - look for some blog posts, too, about our Singapore trip!

Our new and improved 2011 Greenroofs & Walls of the World™ is in production, redesigned by Caroline Menetre.  Spectacular projects are highlighted from across the U.S., Singapore and Canada for 2011, and they'll be available for purchase in about three weeks - they're stunning and will make a great inexpensive holiday gift! Discounts are available for orders of more than 10.
GreenroofsTVOnce again...Have you seen our "This Week in Review" video yet?  It comes out every Friday and is hosted by our daughter, Anjuli Velazquez, who is an associate producer of GreenroofsTV.  Each week you can expect to learn What's New on Greenroofs.com - from our Project of the Week to our original articles and Sky Gardens Blog posts - plus highlights of the most interesting or important NewsLinks, Industry Updates, Upcoming Events, as well as Advertiser Press Releases (APRs) - kind of a weekly video newsletter!

The Greenroof & Greenwall Directory
Greenroofs of the World Calendar
 
2009 Greenroofs of the World CalendarThe 2010 Greenroofs of the World 12-Month Wall Calendar:

October features the PRIVATE BREVARD, NC, RESIDENCE in Brevard, North Carolina, a 1,180 sf Extensive Greenroof by Xero Flor America. This new residence is tucked into a mountain side, oriented to take advantage of spectacular views of Pisgah National Forest. Among other green technologies including solar, two extensive green roofs were incorporated into the design to minimize its impact visually and environmentally. Lightweight Xero Flor pre-vegetated mats reduce the increased dead load and provided an immediate green roof effect; 80% plant coverage was achieved at installation.

Industry News


2010 Cities Alive Conference

The Early Bird Registration Rate has been extended for a final time - you now have until October 31st to take advantage of a $151 discount on your Full Delegate Pass!   Be part of the Discussion on the future of our industry at CitiesAlive in Vancouver from November 30th to December 3rd. Now in its eighth year, this conference marks the first time this international event will be held outside of the United States. It is expected to bring over 1,000 delegates to Vancouver from around the world to discuss the latest research, policy and technical advances in the rapidly growing green roof and green wall industries.  [10.26.10]


Vancouver Convention Centre videoThe CitiesAlive conference will be held at the beautiful Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  This Centre is LEED� Platinum certified for new construction by the Canada Green Building Council, the first convention center in the world to receive it. Also known as the Vancouver Convention Centre West, it is truly a model in sustainability for a civic building of this size and showcases a six-acre green roof. You can watch a short video of its construction provided by Flynn Canada, one of many of the companies who worked on this project. [10.26.10]


International Code CouncilICC Evaluation Service, LLC (ICC-ES) has announced that it is ready to serve its current and new clients by certifying their products and materials to the requirements of the International Green Construction Code (IGCC). The Rhode Island Green Buildings Act identifies the IGCC as a standard to determine compliance with requirements that all public agency major facility projects be designed and constructed as green buildings. The state has joined other jurisdictions that have already adopted the IGCC. [10.22.10]

Advertiser Press Releases

Green Roof Service LLC.
Rooftop Garden for honey bees to cap Baltimore Warehouse - [10.27.10]

GreenGrid/Weston Solutions
Former White House Leader Joins WESTON to Lead Green Development Business - [10.27.10]

Green Roof Blocks

USDA, Washington DC installs green roof to minimize environmental damage - [10.21.10]

Living Roofs Inc.
Living Roofs Inc. designs green roof system for hurricane-prone locales - Hurricane Earl provided the first test - [10.13.10]

Green Roof Blocks
Storm Water Management Tool assists design teams to prepare storm water management plan - [10.11.10]

Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC)
New green roof urban agriculture training course will be launched at CitiesAlive Conference in Vancouver - [10.6.10]

Green Roof Blocks
Sheet Metal HQ will be the ultimate green machine - [9.29.10]

Green Living™ Technologies - GLT
17,000 Square Foot Green Living Wall Takes Root on Intercontinental Hotel - [9.28.10]
          Advertisers Press Releases
NewsLinks

Can Green Walls In Highways Actually Reduce Anything?
Treehugger, by Paula Alvarado
The Buenos Aires government is doing a six month tryout of how green walls perform in the city's highways as noise, temperature and pollution mitigators. Installed inside horizontal tubes filled with water and nutrients, the first seedlings were planted in the exit of a route that connects the southern part of the city with the suburbs.  But, do green walls next to motorways do any good at all? [10.26.10]

Abaza calls for expanding practice of building roof gardens to limit pollution
Al-Masry Al-Youm, by Metwali Salem
Egyptian Agriculture Minister Amin Abaza said it has become vital to begin building roof gardens throughout Egyptian cities to fight pollution and the infamous black cloud of smog. He said an initiative has already been started in some new cities which have begun growing vegetables on the roofs to fight price rises and meet some of the residents' needs. [10.22.10]

The "Rule" For Irrigating a Green Roof Garden
GREENandSAVE Blog, by Richard Heller
Green roofs, as implied by their name, are meant to be sustainable, or at least that was the original intent in their creation. Like any creation, green roofs have taken on a life of their own and expanded into roof gardens that have an aesthetic as well as utilitarian purpose -- and this complicates matters somewhat...Richard Heller is founder and CEO of Greener by Design, a sustainable landscape design, construction, and maintenance company based in New York City. [10.22.10]

Be Green 2: Living Walls
KHON2.com, by Kirk Matthews
The University of Hawaii Outreach College is spreading the news about an innovative project to create "living walls" across the community. Let's start first with a green wall, a living wall like this one at Whole Foods in Kahala. It's the brainstorm of Greg Lee from Tropical Images - Greg Lee (1st Look Exteriors) is GLT Hawaii Distributor. [10.19.10]

Highrise, skyrise, skyscape
Philippine Star, by Paulo Alcazaren
Singapore, in fact, is on the cutting edge of this vertical greening movement. Almost all new construction in the city-state involves high-rise greenery, vertical green, and green roofs. Because of the rapidity of this change in paradigms of design and construction, Singapore is hosting the International Skyrise Greenery Conference 2010. [10.15.10]

For more News, please visit our Newslinks section in our website.

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Upcoming Events

October 30: Free Ecoroof Seminars, Portland, OR

October 31: Final Extension on Early Bird Registration Rate - you now have until October 31st to take advantage of a $151 discount on your Full Delegate Pass for the 2010 Cities Alive Conference in Vancouver!

International Skyrise Greenery Conference 2010, Singapore
November 1-3: International Skyrise Greenery Conference 2010, Singapore
  
November 2: Free Ecoroof Seminars, Portland, OR

November 9: Lexington Green Roof Symposium

November 17-19: Greenbuild 2010, Chicago, IL

2010 Green Roof and Green Wall Conference - CitiesAlive!, Vancouver, Canada
Nov. 30 - Dec. 2: 2010 Green Roof and Green Wall Conference - CitiesAlive! Conference, Vancouver, Canada

For a complete listing, visit Upcoming Events.
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Read what I've been blogging about in my latest Sky Gardens posts:

2010 Top 10 List of Hot Trends in Greenroof & Greenwall Design
2010 marks the fourth year of our "Top 10 List." Compiled by our Design Editor, Haven Kiers, and I, this year's list of categories represents amazing examples of both vegetated roofs and walls since the concept of "Building Integrated Greenery" knows no boundaries, and in fact blurs the distinction between a structure's various planes.

Singapore Conference Next Week: Great City, Great Discount: G3P94K04! Are you still planning on attending in awesome Singapore on November 1-3, 2010 but haven't registered yet?  Well, this is your last chance - organized by CUGE, a project of the National Parks Board of Singapore, and the International Green Roof Association (IGRA), the conference will be held at the National Library.

NYC Council: Greenroof Legislation Hearing this Wednesday Kate Zidar from the Stormwater Infrastructure Matters (S.W.I.M.) Coalition tells us about an important New York City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings hearing addressing a number of issues, including greenroof legislation.  Specifically, Int 0348-2010 is new legislation proposed that would require the NYC Dept of Buildings to "develop and, where appropriate, adopt existing detailed criteria for the installation of vegetated green roofs."

Guest Blog Post:

The Roots of Washington DC's Green Roof Boom
by Dave Hilary
Roofs are turning green all around the Washington DC area.  In 2006 DC had 301,751 square feet of green roofs, and by 2009 it was approaching two million square feet of green roofs.  What's behind this dramatic rise?  Dave gives specific reasons and examples of federal and local government projects as well as private organizations and corporations that are leading the way.

Posts by Kelly Luckett:

Green Roof Construction-Structural Considerations, LEED Credits and Green Roof Construction and Calculators for Green Roof Construction Read some timely excerpts from Kelly: Green Roof Construction and Maintenance, 2009, published by McGraw-Hill's GreenSource Books.

Guest Feature Article:

Save the Date: Skyrise Greenery Conference Singapore (1st-3rd November)
By Wolfgang Ansel, International Green Roof Association (IGRA) and
Dr. Tan Puay Yok, Deputy Director, Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology (CUGE), National Parks Board. The inaugural International Skyrise Greenery Conference (ISGC) is the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region that will cover not only rooftop gardens and green roofs, but also vertical green walls - a growing trend around the globe.

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