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What's New
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Happy Holidays, and Best Wishes in the New Year from the Greenroofs.com Family to Yours!  We have released the Preliminary Agenda and the Speakers page for The Greenroofs & Walls of the World™ Virtual Summit 2013 - Connecting the Planet + Living Architecture: People, Projects & Design. As you probably know by now, this year we are presenting our second annual virtual conference in association with the World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) on February 12 through March 13, 2013. For the cost of less than a standard one-hour webinar, you'll have access to world-renown speakers discussing their latest and greatest projects, vendors at the Expo showing you their newest offerings and unlimited video, audio and text chatting with Virtual Summit attendees and participants during our 30-day extravaganza! Registration is now open! Click here to register.Our Speakers are awesome and we're expecting 1,000+ attendees from around the world. Register soon and look for our big promotional campaign starting in the New Year. We'd like to welcome Green Roof Solutions, our new Greenroof Directory advertiser from Glenview, IL USA.
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2012 Greenroofs & Walls of the World™ Calendar
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December features the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. When the Baltimore Convention Center called for the replacement of the roof membrane due to failure and subsequent leaking into the main halls below, Barrett Company suggested upgrading the aesthetic and functional qualities with a greenroof. The design objective was to create a pleasing outdoor garden to engage or view from the upper lobbies as well as provide cooler temperatures for guests. The Terrace creates an inviting outdoor green space for Convention guests twenty feet above street level affording a people watching perch for the heavy pedestrian traffic and Downtown commerce area.
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.
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Projects of the Week
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| | | |  | |  | Native Child and Family Services of Toronto (NCFST)
Toronto, Canada
5,716 sf. Greenroof
| | Lincoln Center Theatre, LCT3
New York, NY, USA
5,424 sf. Greenroof
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Fenimore Art Museum
Cooperstown, NY, USA
38,100 sf. Greenroof
| | Los Cabos International
Convention Center (ICC)
Los Cabos, Mexico
29,063 sf. Greenwall |  | | | Sharp Memorial Hospital
San Diego, CA, USA
5,000 sf. Greenroof | | |
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Industry News
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 EPA Announces 'Clean Rivers, Green District Partnership' With District of Columbia and DC Water. The "Clean Rivers, Green District" agreement outlines the collaborative steps to support green infrastructure to achieve sustainable stormwater management, more livable communities, and other environmental improvements in the District. The District is already at the forefront of the sustainability movement -- they already lead the nation in municipal use of green power, LEED-certified buildings, and many other measures, including green roof installation and other stormwater management practices. [12.14.12]
 The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Office of Environmental Quality have created the first Green Roof Loan Program of its kind in Ohio. The Ohio EPA has made $5,000,000 available for linked-deposit, below-market-rate loans to install green vegetative roofs within the service area of MSD. These can be installed on residential, commercial and/or industrial buildings. Green roofs have wonderful benefits and have been utilized in Europe for many years to address various climate and aesthetic issues. [12.6.12]
For more information please visit our Industry News section of our website.
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NewsLinks
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 University of Guelph Research May Help Boost Winter Survival of Green Roofs
Morning Post Exchange, by Staff
Guelph, Canada. "A new University of Guelph study shows growers how they can help increasingly popular "green roof" plants survive southern Ontario winters without unnecessary fertilizer costs. Finding ways to make Sedum ("stonecrop") plants more cold-resistant would help growers eager to install green roofs in fall as well as in spring and summer, said Prof. Youbin Zheng, School of Environmental Sciences (SES)..." [12.18.12]
 Living roof breathes fresh air into Newcastle City Centre
The Northern Eco, by Gavin Engelbrecht
Newcastle, UK. "Environmental students have welcomed a new living roof that will breathe fresh air into the city centre. The roof of the newly-developed Newcastle Sixth Form College has been laid with a selection of indigenous plants designed to cut carbon dioxide around the campus, reduce the likelihood of flooding and entice wildlife to the centre of Newcastle..." [12.10.12]
 Plant-covered Business Instructional Facility roof a hub for green research
The News-Gazette, by Julie Wurth
Champaign, IL. "A living laboratory atop the University of Illinois Business Instructional Facility is providing scientists with data on how green roofs can help communities better manage storm water. A 1,200-foot-section of the roof on the fourth floor of the BIF, as it's popularly known, is covered with plants and serves as a field lab for engineering researchers..." [12.2.12]
For more News, please visit Newslinks section of our website.
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