Every house, store, school, office or other building that goes up on the landscape uses up many square feet of the Earth s surface that once acted as a filtering system for storm water that runs off ...

The long, flat roof of a classroom building at a Maryland college has a benefit that its architect never anticipated: It makes great garden space. So say officials at Harford Community College. Joppa ...

The American Society of Landscape Architects has been studying its green roof, shown here (Photograph by the American Society of Landscape Architects) Green roofs might be on top of buildings, but ...

The city of Rotterdam has turned more than 100 acres of rooftop green over the past decade. A green roof has a top layer of soil and vegetation that captures rain and reduces the amount of water that ...

It’s hard to miss the soaring three-acre meadow that graces the top of Barclays Center. But green roofs – or living roofs — are also branching into brownstone Brooklyn, where homeowners with sturdy ...

WEBVTT ABOVE OUR HEADS. MINDY LOOKING DOWN ON BALTIMORE : CITY FROM SKY TEAM 11, IT’S OBVIOUS THE SWATH OF GREEN TO THE LEFT IS A BASEBALL FIELD BUT WHAT’S THAT SMALLER PATCH OF GREEN TO THE RIGHT? A ...

Milwaukee made the top 10 in the second annual green roof survey by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the North American green roof industry association. Chicago, which has policies in place to support ...

Those interested in viewing and enjoying thriving, lush plants in Sandra Baptie's Albany home need to look up, specifically to the roof. That's because Baptie is one of a growing number of people ...

There’s been a movement in architecture over the past couple of decades to help tie together large urban developments with plant life and greenery. We’ve seen a few buildings, and hundreds more ...

Did you ever have a school assignment that involved growing a seedling, nurturing its progress and watching it bloom? Did you ever do that on the roof of your school building? Currently, a bill in ...