Via Environmental Research Web, a report on a recent study in which white roofs in northeast India were found to reflect sunlight, potentially minimizing global warming: White is a cool colour. In California flat-roofed buildings are now required to have a white roof, to reflect sunlight and help minimize global warming. Other places are thinking […]
Read more »Via The Montreal Gazette, an interesting article on Lufa Farms, a company that is planning to open four new rooftop greenhouses in Laval, Montreal, Boston, and Toronto in the next year: The company that built the world’s first commercial rooftop greenhouse farm on a building in Ahuntsic is adding two new sites in Montreal and […]
Read more »Via Green Technica, an interesting article about Los Angeles’ rooftop market: Los Angeles homeowners have been signing up for rooftop solar power installations in droves — so much so that the overwhelming volume of applications threatened to overrun the program’s budget and prompted the LA Dept. of Water and Power’s (LADWP) to actually shut the […]
Read more »Via Environmental Leader, a report on the green roof market: Green roofs and green walls will grow from a $5.3 billion market in 2011 into a $7.7 billion market in 2017, driven by mandates and incentives in cities worldwide, according to Lux Research. But while installations will increase 70 percent to 204 million square meters, […]
Read more »Via PBS, an interview on Chicago’s efforts to utilize roofspace to help combat urban heat: GWEN IFILL: Next, our series on Coping With Climate Change looks at how the city of Chicago is dealing with ever warmer temperatures by trying to cool things down with changes to its landscape. We turn again to Hari Sreenivasan, […]
Read more »Via NuWire Investor, an interesting article on the potential of rooftop farms: Building owners with large amounts of city rooftop space are asking themselves how they can better utilize it in the growing environmental revolution and one answer that is coming up more often is rooftop farming. Rooftop farms can produce worthwhile amounts of food, […]
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