A Review of Green Roof Laws & Policies
There are a number of reasons to install a green roof in an urban setting. Green roofs can help with stormwater retention, mitigate the urban heat island effect, enhance biodiversity, …
Green Roofs
Crain’s: Greening the City from the Top Down
by Scott Stringer and Danielle Spiegel-Feld When storm clouds gather, 62 square miles of roofs keep us dry in New York City. Unfortunately, most of the dozens of inches of …
Expanding Green Roofs in New York City: Towards a Location-Specific Tax Incentive
Vegetated, or “green,” roofs provide numerous social and environmental benefits to urban areas. Compared with conventional roofs, green roofs promote biodiversity, reduce building energy use, decrease noise, and improve the productivity …
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Expanding Green Roofs in New York City: Insights from the City of Copenhagen
In New York City, rooftops are a vastly underutilized resource. Occupying thirty times the land area of Central Park, many rooftops in NYC sit empty and unused. On April 20th, …
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Apr. 20, 2017 – Expanding Green Roofs in NYC: A Dialogue with the City of Copenhagen
Green roofs promote a number of New York City’s environmental policy goals. They can cut a building’s electricity demand, filter harmful urban air pollutants including asthma-inducing particulate matter, provide disadvantaged …
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Cool Roofs Offer a Salve for Hot Cities — and the Climate, Too
By Benjamin Mandel published in Grist July 1, 2014 From his office in the Berkeley hills, Art Rosenfeld looks out on the heart of California’s Bay Area. The 87-year-old scientist keeps …
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