Wildfires are sadly becoming a regular occurrence, particularly in the sun-soaked southwestern US states. As homeowners and construction experts look at ways of increasing property protection, the ...

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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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The company whose "green roof" dried up atop The Rapid bus station blames the transit system for the $220,000 mistake, saying it failed to care for it. The transit system allowed the ...

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Question: Would you recommend using sedum for a green roof project in Houston? Will the humidity effect the sedum? If sedum would be a poor choice, what would you recommend for Houston? Question: ...

PLANTED ROOFS, despite their casual country air, are going uptown. And where else but in the heart of the city is their green relief more welcome? We now have three seriously large green roofs in ...

A roof fitted with solar panels signals that a building is equipped with technology at the leading edge of sustainable thinking, a hard-edged surface with easily quantifiable energy and financial ...

I RECEIVED a letter recently from a lady who has gone for a natural look on the roof of her house. From all accounts it is a simple technology that could have wider application in Kerry for more ...

EL CERRITO — The new Korematsu Middle School at 1725 Donal Drive has a feature that aims to please the neighbors as well as the environmentally conscious city at large in the form of a pair of “living ...