Green roofs sprouting new adherents

[jpak]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070907.VANGREEN07/TPStory/TPEntertainment/BritishColumbia/

The residential application of a roof or wall that is alive with vegetation has long been too daunting a proposition for most British Columbia homeowners. But things may be changing.

The idea of a green roof is nothing new. In Europe, they've been deliberately growing vegetation on their rooftops for centuries.

Big commercial projects such as Paris's Musée du Quai Branly has taken the idea to an avant-garde, vertical extreme, with the building's façade covered in a lush 8,600 sq. ft. carpet of plants.

B.C. is just now catching up with this growing trend. Over the last year or so, there's been a sudden surge of interest that's meant a new market for the companies that supply the systems for rooftop gardens.

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[budibudinski]

1. Uber Cool...Myself being a horticulturist...cool until

the roots grow through the ceiling...but maybe they've designed the new-tech green homes with preventing that, in mind.
I'm covering my rooftop in purple panseys..& I can eat them too.

Don't cover your rooftop in strawberry plants, though, because eventually it'll be covered with birds eating your strawberries...


Maybe wheat..then you could also make flour & then bread.

or pumpkins...

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Interested? Check out this site

http://www.greenroofs.org/

[bananas]

5. How about carrots, you could pick off them off the ceiling?

:)

[budibudinski]

8. LOL..fuck that'd be cool.. & potatoes...

this is fun..nice clean simple fun.

need it after the emotional fury of yesterday in the SENATE..

[DaveJ]

2. This calls for pictures - these are beautiful

[Dover]

6. LOVE IT!!! Where is this building and who are the architects?

I'd like to read more about this project.

Thanks!

[DaveJ]

7. It's the building mentioned in the OP

Jean Nouvel is the architect for this museum in Paris.

[XemaSab]

11. In Santa Barbara that building would be covered in rats and pigeons

:P

[eppur_se_muova]

4. LOL! Tell me that's not a double-entendre in the title! nt

[budibudinski]

9. ahhhhhhhhhhhhh..I WANT THIS..soooooooooo bad.

you'd think it could be done with the weather in Dallas..Seattle would be better..but I am doing this in Dallas ..Somehow.
I haven't lived here long enough to make many connections...I need a way to make this my green gift to Dallas.
Think they'd give me a green-grant?

[NNadir]

10. Wow. It's a real trend. But, but, but, but, but...

don't each of the brazillion green roofs interfere with each of the brazillion solar roofs?

I mean can you have one of a brazillion solar roofs if you also have one of a brazillion green roofs?

Or are the brazillion solar roofs only found in the haunts of Governor Hydrogen Hummer?

[silverweb]

12. Bookmarking.

I love this. I have a paved, gated driveway and lots of flat roof space. Little by little, I'm learning to grow things better in containers. First the driveway, then I'll work on a ladder to the roof! :)