Via China Dialogue, a report on the possibilities presented by Beijing’s 90 million square meters of potential green roof space, which could provide food, reduce air pollution and cool the city during hot summers: Beijing’s population has grown rapidly over the last 20 years and with construction under way on hundreds of kilometres of subway, […]
Read more »Via Outside Magazine, interesting comments from the New York director of The Nature Conservancy who sees 14,000 acres of rooftops in his city that could be used for everything from generating electricity to restoring nature: An example of a green roof in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: pnwra/Flickr Green roofs are about restoring nature […]
Read more »Via The Institute for Local Self Reliance, an interesting look at the opportunity for rooftop generation in the years ahead: The United States has over 4,000 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaics (PV) connected to the grid, with the pace of new installations accelerating as the price continues to fall. There has never been a better […]
Read more »Via GreenTech Media, an interesting report on distributed generation: SunEdison wrote the first U.S. power purchase agreement (PPA) in solar in 2004. It built the first U.S. and Canadian utility-scale solar projects and the biggest (72 megawatts) European installation. And, in 2010, its deal with First Reserve was the first solar development investment fund to […]
Read more »Via the Vancouver Sun, an interesting look at a greenhouse, perched atop a Richards Street parkade in downtown Vancouver, which employs a four-metre-high system of hundreds of suspended trays that move to maximize exposure to natural light: A unique mechanized greenhouse operation will deliver its first crop of salad greens, herbs and spinach today and […]
Read more »Via PopUp City, a look at the world’s top urban rooftop farms: Urban farming has become one of the major international urban trends — a good reason for us to make a Top 5 of the greatest rooftop farms we’ve come across over the last years. All over the world, people feel the need to […]
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