In many countries, the green roof industry is vulnerable to non-acceptance and a lack of understanding.
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Aloni, also by Deca, sits under a green roof in a saddle between two slopes.
Though it needs occasional weeding, Brahler says the green roof is her most unique garden.
When the green roof is planted though they should have plenty to eat.
So the green roof industry continues to grow -- but there's a feeling that government support could be better.
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Additionally, certain sections of the Walmart green roof will feature wildlife-attracting habitat features such as compost piles and water basins.
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The green roof is a four-layer, matlike system topped with drought-resistant sedum.
Along with job creation and convenience, Kincaid singles out the massive green roof as one of the factors that won over the opposition.
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Dusty Gedge, co-founder of Livingroof.org, a UK Web site promoting the green roof industry, believes it is the government's responsibility to help the industry grow.
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Despite this lack of support, the green roof industry is growing.
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The green roof market alone grew by 115% last year, according to Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a not-for-profit organization touting the benefits of turf roofing.
The company, which specializes in modular live roof systems, has supplied more than 3 million square feet of green roof, including around 30% for residential use, in just the last few years.
We have a proposed stormwater control plan that will use a host of green infrastructure like rain gardens, green roof technology and green space to keep harmful storm surge out of out sewer system.
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In green architecture news, word has just come out that Facebook has commissioned Bilbao-famed starchitect Frank Gehry to design a green extension to the Facebook Menlo Park campus - complete with a massive, walkable green roof!
Construction just commenced on a new 90, 000-square-foot store in North Portland that will be home to not only the largest green roof in the green roof-happy city of Portland, but the largest green roof in the entire state of Oregon.
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Chicago, for example, has about 350 green-roof projects covering more than 4.5 million square feet.
We put a job training and placement system together that eventually included river bank and estuary stabilization, urban forestry, brownfield remediation and green-roof installation.
By 2011, the Red Sox completed a 10-year renovation plan for Fenway Park that included added seats to the Green Monster and right field roof, three new scoreboards beyond right-center field, and updated suites and luxury boxes.
The American Firearms School sits in an industrial park just north of Providence, in a beige stucco building topped with a roof of mint-green sheet metal.
To capitalize on the earth-friendly factor, architect Robert Maschke suggested the Brahlers use an insulating eco-roof as well as a green exterior wall covered with layers of soil.
The same is true of green tax credits for a privately installed solar roof.
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But to our family, this modest brown cabin with its green trim and weathered, moss-covered roof is far more than just a summer vacation spot.
This cutting of red tape has delighted business - and doubtless those wanting a roof extension, too - but green groups and civic groups fear that the new system has handed power to a quango from politicians and people.
San Francisco entrepreneur Todd Pelman has founded a small start-up company called Blue Green Pacific, which produces a corkscrew-shaped, roof-mounted turbine that is still in the development phase.
That sliding roof is tinted a very light gray-green via new process that blocks almost all damaging sunlight rays and, also, is said to be 10 times harder to bust than tempered glass.
She was sitting on the roof again, as a cold dusk settled, the sky tinged green.
But an old green Volkswagen Beetle inches past the plaza, a loudspeaker roaring scratchily from its roof.
For lots of good reasons, more corporations are turning to solar power installations: lower electricity bills, generous state rebates, the 30% federal investment tax credit and the overall "green" sheen that comes with putting solar panels on an otherwise unadorned corporate roof.
With around 5 billion square feet under roof, the projects and the representative owners include many of the largest green portfolios, measured as the estimated share of total portfolio value that has either LEED or EnergyStar certification.
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