Tag: Green Roofs - Page 9
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How To Build a House from Straw Bale and Mud
Warning! If you do not want to live in a straw bale house with a living roof and solar panels to power your satellite internet connectivity, DO NOT watch the video over the fold!
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Solar Roof Brings Vatican Closer to Becoming World's First Carbon-Neutral State
This week, the Vatican did its part to make the move to renewable energy, as workers began installing the first of 2,400 solar panels on the roof of the papal
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"Eco Friendly" Hilton to be Built in Bariloche, Argentina
The Portuguese group IMOCOM presented its latest project in Argentina, a Hilton branded hotel in Bariloche (Patagonia) that was introduced as "eco friendly". According to the company's CEO, Hugo Canessa, the broad term refers
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Sliver of a Green Roof at the ROM by Plant Architects
At the top of the "crystal" at Daniel Libeskind's Royal Ontario Museum is a the fancy C5 restaurant; it didn't have a very fancy view over the roof of the older wing. So why not toss on a green roof? Because they are heavy, often 15 pounds per square
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11 Buildings Wrapped in Gorgeous Green and Living Walls
Frank Lloyd Wright once said, "A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." It turns out that his suggestion is also a good idea for creating handsome buildings. And
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Chicago Unveils New Climate Change Plan
Mayor Richard M. Daly laid out a plan to cut Chicago's emissions to 3/4 of 1990 levels by 2020, announced yesterday in an ambitious and comprehensive Chicago Climate Change Action Plan, reports Chicago's NBC5.
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Sao Paulo Office Building With Green Walls by Triptyque
"Like a living body, the building
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Floating Homes Made From Coffee Cups with Green Walls
Since 2000, about thirty floating homes have been built out RexWall, a composite fiberglass panel; we have shown a few of them on TreeHugger. Now Michel Kreuger of Amsterdam's Studio Noach has put together a team with Kohler Prize winning architect
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Lighter Roofs Could Save $1Billion USD Annually
In much the same way that more ice/snow reflects UV rays instead of absorbing the heat the way the oceans do (think: feedback loop that results from melting polar ice caps), cities are now giving white roofs a second
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ConEd Goes Green Roof on Long Island City Learning Center
TreeHugger is all about green roofs on buildings—even taking part in building one—and can't say enough good things about the virtues of energy efficiency and energy conservation. So when Con Edison announced that it installed its
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Is $339,000 For This Green Solar-Roof Home In Chicago Affordable?
Solar Verde is a planned 20-home community near Chicago's South Chicago Heights subdivision which is intended to have all zero energy homes as defined by the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America program. The first two zero energy houses at
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Green Roof Creates "Image of a Mountain" in Japan
Green roofs are all the rage now, but back in 1995 it was pretty unusual when Emilio Ambasz and Associates extended Fukuoka's Tenjin Central Park with a terraced building covered in gardens. Builder Takenaka calls "a step-shaped rooftop garden in order
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TreeHugger Gets The Inside View on Ecover's Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products
Do we really know what goes into our eco-friendly cleaning products? Where they're made and why they work? Despite being a loyal Ecover customer for many years I must confess ignorance. Like many people I trust what it says on the label and the
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Green Roofs in Osaka
The nicest thing about Osaka is the train to Kyoto; most of it is drab, grey postwar concrete. However, Justin at MetaEfficient points us to a bit of green, a bit of an oasis on the roof of a shopping center next to the railway station, jammed in
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Newest Green Roof Accessory: Bees
Bonnie wrote last summer about what one might call the 34 floor diet- the roof garden on the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto where Executive Chef David Garcelon grows herbs and vegetables. Now he has added bees.
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Green Roofs at Doors Open Toronto
Doors Open Toronto is a wonderful program where once a year, buildings normally closed to the public swing open their doors and let citizens see what is normally hidden. In its ninth year, it is bigger than ever; we took the opportunity to have a look
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2008 Award-Winning Green Roofs and Walls
The Green Roofs for Healthy Cities convention in Baltimore ended with the Awards of Excellence, with seven categories of roof and wall. Green walls are growing like mad, probably because they are visible where a green roof often isn't. Randy Sharp's
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Retrofitting our Skyscrapers For Food and Power
Nicolai Ouroussoff writes about all the new glass towers architects are designing in New York these days; they are lovely things, but what will power them or feed their occupants in years to come? Green roofs won't do it, they are too small. Daekwon
