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January 2012

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 advertisersGreen 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!

  

2011 Greenroofs & Walls™ of the World Calendar

 

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

Projects of the Week

 
Arbroath Abbey
Visitor Centre
Arbroath, Scotland, UK
4,144 sf. Greenroof
 
 Queens Botanical Garden Visitor and Administration Center
Flushing, NY, USA
3,000 sf. Greenroof
 
 
Heritage Flight
South Burlington, VT, USA
15,000 sf. Greenroof
 Delft University of
Technology Library
Delft, The Netherlands
16,146 sf. Greenroof


 

Industry News

  

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.  

NewsLinks

 

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.

 

Upcoming Events

Featured Sponsor
Green Paks  

Green Roof Blocks introduces their green roof innovation, Green Paks, the easiest and most affordable way to own a green roof. These knitted polyethylene green roof modules are pre-filled with lightweight engineered soil. Simply cover the roof area with Green Paks, insert the plants of your choice, and start enjoying your green roof. Green Paks are fast, easy, and affordable and carry a twenty year limited warranty.

 

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Linda Velazquez

Editor & Publisher, GRP

Greenroofs & Walls of the World™ Virtual Summit 2011 videos Blog posts 

 

Greenroof & Greenwall Projects of the Week: Heritage Flight, Delft University of Technology Library, Tremco Incorporated Headquarters, Orchard Central Mall Greenwalls, and The Ramona Apartments 

 

Stephen Ritz, South Bronx Educator/Administrator at TEDxManhattan "Changing the Way We Eat" Tomorrow!

8 House Honored by the AIA  

  

Guest Feature:      

 

BannerLogo603 Read Todd Skopic's guest feature article "All-Aboard the Greenroof Ship at the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters."
[1.24.12]     

 

 

JobLinks

 

LiveRoof is now hiring a Sales Specialist - Wisconsin in Spring Lake, MI. [1.19.12] 

 

Prides Corner Farms (a LiveRoof � Licensed Grower) is looking for a Green Roof Sales Specialist in the Metro NY area. [12.20.11]

Columbia-Green is looking for a Sales Manager based in the Midwest or East Coast, USA. [12.8.11]   

 

The Horticultural Society of New York (The Hort) is seeking a Greenroof Research Intern in New York, NY, USA. [12.5.11]  

 

Furbish Company is looking for a Site Supervisor in Brooklyn, MD, USA. [2.10.11] 

 

See other Jobs Available and Positions Wanted in our Joblinks page. 

 

Advertiser Press Releases

 

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SKYLAND USA, LLC - rooflite� Announces Launch of New Spanish Website - www.techosvegetales.com. [1.24.12]  

 

Green Roof Technology introduces the "Sun-Root" Living Roof System-Green Roofs embrace Renewable Solar Energy. [1.9.12]

RUBBERMASTER/A & A Melters are Approved by Material Manufacturers. [1.12.12]

Green Living Technologies International (GLTi) Green Training Course Added at SUNY Ulster. [1.4.12]   

 

Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance Adhesive added to BioPreferred Program. [1.4.12]  

   

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