A green roof full of plants can be an effective way to keep your home cooler. However, considering the costs and maintenance, ...

Green roofs help offset carbon dioxide and purify air in urban areas while lowering utility bills for homeowners. The positions of American Progress, and our policy experts, are independent, and the ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in ...

We designed and made a very simple green roof over 1/2 of our roof this summer. I was holding off on posting about it here until it takes off next Spring and looks more presentable, but you can get a ...

Green roofed structures date back thousands of years, even before the concept of housing as it is known today was birthed. The earliest green roofs came in the form of sod roofs above caves. Plants ...

You may be wondering: are green roofs worth it? Build your own residential green roof system today to turn your roof into a canopy of lovely plants that will keep your house comfortable year-round I ...

A large percentage of urban land is covered by impervious surfaces such as roads, parking lots, and rooftops. These surfaces prevent rainwater from infiltrating into the ground, causing it to ...

Spring and summer 2017 have been among the wettest on record in eastern North America, including southern Ontario. Rainfall amounts in the spring broke records in places like Toronto, where 44.6 ...

According to the 2018 edition of the International Building Code, vegetative roof systems need to meet the same fire classification requirements as the roof covering ...

Norwegian vertical solar system specialist, Over Easy Solar, recently supplied a 102 kW bifacial commercial rooftop system, just a few months after supplying a 45 kWp system for a school rooftop. Both ...

Urban commercial development and dense urban planning have led to a gradual decrease in green coverage, which has resulted in urban heat island effects and wall effects 1. Increasing the area of urban ...