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• Eco Architecture: Evergreen La Florida complex is covered with living plants

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 431
  Eco Factor: Sustainable multipurpose complex preserves nature. Row // Studio have proposed Evergreen La Florida, a sustainable multipurpose complex in Mexico City that will feature luxury apartment complex and the headquarters for the foundation that finances the project. The buildings of the complex ...
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• Eco Architecture: Sadar Vuya Architects to develop green-roofed sports park in Slovenia

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 431
  Eco Factor: Sustainable sports park to have a green roof. Sadar Vuya Architects have commenced construction on a unique sports park in Slovenia that will integrate a football stadium, multipurpose sports hall and a shopping center under one expansive green roof. The football stadium will be underground with only ...
  13 hours ago

• The (Award-Winning) Green Wall Editor in the News

  
  Sky Gardens — Authority: 110
  In all the hustle and bustle of editing feature articles, posting news stories, upcoming events, industry news and project profiles, amid other publisher duties, I sometimes forget to acknowledge the outside accomplishments (from Greenroofs.com ) of our contributing editors…  This oversight will be addressed as ...
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• Green vegetated roofs in the theory of landscape and architecture

  
  Gardenvisit.com Blog — Authority: 413
  Ecological space + (a little) Social Space (Green roof on California Academy of Sciences) In Germany, vegetated green roofs are often classified as: intensive (ie treated as a garden, typically with exotic plants, irrigation, turf and social use) extensive (ie treated as habitat, without irrigation or ...
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• NEW PRODUCT FLASH: GreenShield® Module Roof System

  
  Facility Blog — Authority: 427
  The Garland Company, Inc. recently updated its GreenShield® vegetative roof technology by introducing movable, interlocking container modules. by AnneTFM
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Press Release on Seeding the City (please share!)

  
  seeding the city — Authority: 92
  For Immediate Release Contact: Eve Mosher October 19, 2009            646-492-1314 eve@evemosher.com Patches of green sprouting across New York City October – December, 2009 It may feel like fall in most of the New York, but on rooftops throughout the city, as little patches of green are ...
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• 7 Points for Fantastic Food and Cities

  
  FoodCycles — Authority: 113
  Dr. Wayne Roberts spoke on food policy and a new vision for cities at Toledo Library in the US. As always his witty humour is always a hit. The photos he uses in the presentation are also quite insightful. Dr. Roberts also proposes hopeful solutions and answers to fixing cities and the food system. If you want the ...
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• Living in a Solar-Powered Village

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 637
  Solar homes built for a competition retire as the residences for campus students.
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• Postdoctoral Fellow – Green Roofs

  
  Sustainable Melbourne — Authority: 127
  Source: EnviroJobsImage: padraic via flickr CCJoin an ARC (Australian Research Council) Linkage Project that aims to develop green or vegetated roofs suitable for Australian climates as a climate change mitigation and adaptation measure. This research project is a collaboration between the University of Melbourne, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Grey Global Moves Into LEED-CS-Hopeful Toy Building at 200 Fifth Avenue

  
  greenbuildingsNYC — Authority: 414
  Out of the top 50 commercial office leases that were signed in Manhattan back in 2007, the 6th largest was secured by advertising and marketing firm Grey Global Group for a new 370,000-square-foot headquarters at L&L Holding Companys 200 Fifth Avenue. (You may recall that for both calendar years 2007 and 2008, we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spectacular Urban Transformation in Student Green Roof Design Competition

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 700
  click on image to enlarge As part of the Cities Alive Green Roof Infrastructure Conference in Toronto, there was a student design competition , that Steven Peck of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities described as a challenge to "faculty-led student teams from around the world to develop ways of productively using the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Triple Treat: Prefab Garden Shed With a Green Roof

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 700
  Colin Viebrock needed a new garage on his house a few years ago, and decided to make it green, topping it off with a green roof. He blogged about it , got some good press and the next thing he knew, he was in the green garage and shed business. Everyone in Toronto has massive new recycling and garbage containers, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Green heights: Daniel Libeskind sketches up a shining green beacon for Düsseldorf

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 589
  Europe is fast turning out to be a more than worthy rival for the pompous Middle East when it comes to green architecture and spectacular design, all being amalgamated into one singular astounding structure. The latest glassy crystalline wonder that is set to take center stage in the heart of German city of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Whole Foods garden inspires from ground level to rooftop

  
  Digging — Authority: 420
  Sunday we went to lunch at Whole Foods’ flagship store at 5th and Lamar. I generally treat this amazing downtown grocery store like a tourist destination and visit about as frequently. So it was a real treat to finally get out of the car instead of driving by and look at the lovely landscaping in [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Potential for rainwater use in high-rise buildings in Australian cities

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 478
  Abstract: Rainwater is a traditional but underutilized water resource that has today had a resurgence due to the worldwide water crisis. This paper demonstrates the outcomes of research on the feasibility of rainwater use in high-rise residential envelopes for four Australian cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Green Roofs for Virginia Tech

  
  Clean Air through Green Roofs — Authority: 92
  Recognized as a top engineering university, Virginia Tech also has green roofs! The most recent issue of Virginia Tech Magazine , has an article about VT alumni who are leaders in sustainability. However, the first graphic is of students planting a green roof between Seitz and Fralin Halls. The picture, seen ...
  4 weeks ago

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