Weighing the Benefits of Green Roofs

[tchalstrom]

Urban farming is the missed key here.. just planting grass on a roof isn't enough.

[TheNewThingMan]

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[yld629]

Who trusts the wall st journal?

[TheDeadlySanchez]

The lower portions? The soil, not the vegetation?

[hungreh1442]

This isn't to help the buildings keep cool and shit. This is a move for legalizing weed! Think bout' it. Weed grown in da city.

[silverunya]

@ReiMomo You mean erodes I hope.

[ReiMomo]

Did you know grass erosionate concrete?

[GringoHunter]

I can see all you gringos growing pot on your roofs....

[zieben64]

Great, we are going back to shelters made of grass and dirt!

They addressed 2 things.

#1. apparently dirt will soak up more water than a normal roof. great!

#2 a dirt roof will keep temperatures cooler than a darker one. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?

Are these 2 things really problems, and if so, is dirt REALLY the best answer to these 2 solutions?

Frickin' hippies and their feel-good science

[markespo1]

@zieben64 yeah because living totally out of touch with nature is SO much better than trying to live more in harmony with it. frickin people who have to classify someone based on sound belief structures.

[zieben64]

@markespo1 if ya want a grass roof to be one with nature, that's fine with me.

[Chronotrigg1]

thats pretty cool i never new that it could do that



[2ladiesfreddy]

without co2, no plants, that's how simple it is, we all know the plants need co2, every grower knows this.

[gardenguy553]

@2ladiesfreddy Oh if we could only all live in such a simple world. You know the world where one fact is all we need to form an opinion.

[Fellopian22]

All this global warming nonsense is retarded, the earths climate has been changing for thousands of years, before the industrial revolution, and after and it always will regardless if humans are here or not, this is all propoganda created to cause mass hysteria and make the pockets of these "green" companies rich.....global warming will continue and always will be a myth

[AcidTest075]

@Fellopian22 You're saying all the fumes and exhaust which have been proven to damage the atmosphere which is produced from modernization is, a... myth? And not to mention plants naturally absorb these agents. You must of took an arrow to the knee.

[FingerMyFinger]

@Fellopian22 i disagree with your statement but even then whats bad about creating money and jobs for people in "the green industry"

[oilhammer04]

Haven't we just had an eleven year cooling period. How is man's activity influenced this? I'd say that we have almost no influence on global temperature based on the current cooling. We haven't reduced CO2 output.

[neotoy]

You cite doubt, yet if global warming is a myth how can you trust claims of global cooling? Answer: you are being easily manipulated by organizations that specialize in FUD and cherrypicked talking points for corporate profit. Which is why we have climate science, get the facts, stop parroting greed motivated rhetoric.

[bluewolfer]

looks very nice, I'm pretty sure the Chicago Public Library has this on top.