Archive for May, 2015

Seoul: Elevating Gardening
May 28th, 2015

Via Seed Daily, a report on a Korean initiative to put gardens on rooftops: From stylish, manicured creations to small vegetable plots, gardens are taking to the rooftops of the South Korean capital Seoul — bringing dashes of spontaneity and colour to the skyline of one of the world’s most densely populated cities. With help […]

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Nothing But Rooftop + Parking Lot Solar Installations Needed To Power California?
May 23rd, 2015

Via Clean Technica, a report on the potential of under utilized space (rooftops and parking lots) for solar generation in California: Could California actually be powered by nothing other than rooftop solar + parking lot installations? Or is that just a piece of shiny rhetoric used by the proponents of solar energy in the state? According […]

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The Hole In The Rooftop Solar-Panel Craze
May 18th, 2015

Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, interesting commentary on residential / small-scale solar: Most people buy rooftop solar panels because they think it will save them money or make them green, or both. But the truth is that rooftop solar shouldn’t be saving them money (though it often does), and it almost certainly isn’t green. […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
As potential uses for building and parking lot roofspace continue to grow, unique opportunities to understand and profit from this trend will emerge. Roof Options is committed to tracking the evolving uses of roof estate – spanning solar power, rainwater harvesting, wind power, gardens & farms, “cooling” sites, advertising, apiculture, and telecom transmission platforms – to help unlock the nascent, complex, and expanding roofspace asset class.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has held a lifelong interest in environmental and conservation issues, primarily as they relate to freshwater scarcity, renewable energy, and national park policy. Working from a water-scarce base in Las Vegas with his wife and son, he is the founder of Water Politics, an organization dedicated to the identification and analysis of geopolitical water issues arising from the world’s growing and vast water deficits, and is also a co-founder of SmartMarkets, an eco-preneurial venture that applies web 2.0 technology and online social networking innovations to motivate energy & water conservation. He previously worked for an independent power producer in Central Asia; co-authored an article appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, titled: “The Water Ethic: The Inexorable Birth Of A Certain Alienable Right”; and authored an article appearing in the inaugural issue of Johns Hopkins University's Global Water Magazine in July 2010 titled: “H2Own: The Water Ethic and an Equitable Market for the Exchange of Individual Water Efficiency Credits.”