Happy New Year to all! We wish you a very healthy, happy, and prosperous one!
As we begin to plan for the 2012 Greenroofs & Walls of the World™ Virtual Summit, we want you to catch up on all the fantastic presentations from 2011 on our GreenroofsTV channel on YouTube. Make sure you watch our latest video, Episode 7: "Constructing Gardens in the Sky" by Terry McGlade.
Can't wait till midyear to learn all about the hottest projects and designers with our Top 10 List of Hot Trends in Greenroof & Greenwall Design? Look for Haven Kiers and Linda's new Sky Gardens Blog series: Chic Sustainability Watch: Trends, Projects & People, a bi-weekly review, coming in February!
Haven't bought your The Greenroofs & Walls™ of the World Calendar yet? You're in luck. We're reducing the price from the already low $12.95 to only $9.95 - and that includes free shipping within the U.S. and Canada.
We'd like to welcome our new Greenroof Directory advertisers: Green Roof Outfitters, a manufacturer and wholesale supplier of modular green roofs systems from Charleston, SC and Swanson Bark & Wood Products, a licensed blender of rooflite FLL certified green roof media from the Pacific Northwest!
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2011 Greenroofs & Walls™ of the World Calendar
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 January features the C-MORE Hale building in Honolulu, HI. The first building to have LEED certification and Platinum status in Hawai'i, the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE) Hale is a state-of-the-art research facility at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. A colorful focal point to welcome visitors into the entry, the Green Living Technologies International Green Wall installed at C-MORE measures 6 ft. L x 8 ft H and showcases an array of beautiful native Hawaiian and locally grown tropical plantings that help clean the air within the building using minimal watering.
The Greenroofs & Walls™ of the World Calendar series combines two of our most popular destinations on Greenroofs.com: The Greenroof & Greenwall Projects Database and Upcoming Events, and it's still available for purchase.
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Projects of the Week
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Visitor Centre
Arbroath, Scotland, UK
4,144 sf. Greenroof
| | Queens Botanical Garden Visitor and Administration Center
Flushing, NY, USA
3,000 sf. Greenroof
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| Heritage Flight
South Burlington, VT, USA
15,000 sf. Greenroof | | Delft University of
Technology Library
Delft, The Netherlands
16,146 sf. Greenroof |
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Industry News
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 The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is providing incentive funding to increase green roof coverage within its service area. The Regional Green Roof Initiative will provide up to $5 per square foot of an approved green roof project. The District's interest in green roofs is to hold rainwater where it falls, thereby diminishing the risk of sewer overflows and improving the overall water quality in the region. In addition to managing stormwater, green roofs offer numerous additional environmental, economic, and social benefits. [1.13.12]
 The District Department of the Environment (DDOE) is once again providing rebates, at $5 per square foot, for green roofs to qualified applicants for the third consecutive year! The Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS) is administering the program for DDOE and believes this is a great opportunity to help people cover some costs of their proposed green roofs as well as an opportunity to reach out to those unfamiliar with this technology all in an effort to help restore the watershed. [1.12.12]
For more information please visit our Industry News section of our website.
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NewsLinks
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Music City Center Roof Goes Green
NewsChannel5.com, by Adam Ghassemi
Nashville, TN. "...the first of three phases of green roof is nearing completion. When it's all done, it'll have its own micro-climate covered by four-acres of a grass-like plant called "sedum". Scott McGaughy of Murfreesboro-based Landscape Support Services is responsible for it all. McGaughy says every green square is armed with 11 types of sedum that will control water runoff year round. If we were to go down and look at the drains right now the roof would still be draining. If you came out here two days later the roof would still be draining..." [1.13.12]
Sky Gardens Green Up Vertical City
DesignBuild Source, by Emily D'Alterio
Singapore. "Increased populations in major cities are an increasing issue for urban planners and designers. With the majority of populous living in dense areas, land is short and habitable built spaces are given priority over the natural...One such avenue that this has been made possible has been through the creation of sky gardens. Much like vertical farms forest and vertical farms, sky gardens, and their name would suggest, are green belts in skyscraper buildings. Much like a green roof, the sky garden has the ability to offer a barrage of sustainability aspects into traditionally brown buildings..." [1.12.12]
Can biodiversity be accommodated in today's urban environment?
The Ecologist Blog, by Austin Brown
UK. "A bold new initiative is designed to raise public awareness of the issue of biodiversity and the need to incorporate native species back within London...And until we do step outside of our comfort zone and think of some radical ideas, such as creating networks of functioning habitat corridors linking isolated city parklands to the countryside, or extensive areas of green roofs and walls, they will continue to decline with increasing rapidity..." [1.10.12]
For more News, please visit Newslinks section of our website.
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