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green_roof_blocksIf you're not a little soggy already, you must have heard by now about the deluge of rain that has been soaking New England for the past week, producing the some of the worst flooding the region has seen in 70 years. I just can't help wondering how things might be improved if green roofs played a more dominant role in conventional building practices. Instead of acres of non-porous asphalt, concrete and other materials funneling stormwatersstraight into overburdened drainages, we might have thousands of green rooftop oases to drink up the downpour!...<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/green-rooftops-conference/'>READ ARTICLE</a>1
newyork_roof_gardens_imaginedIf you're not a little soggy already, you must have heard by now about the deluge of rain that has been soaking New England for the past week, producing the some of the worst flooding the region has seen in 70 years. I just can't help wondering how things might be improved if green roofs played a more dominant role in conventional building practices. Instead of acres of non-porous asphalt, concrete and other materials funneling stormwatersstraight into overburdened drainages, we might have thousands of green rooftop oases to drink up the downpour!...<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/green-rooftops-conference/'>READ ARTICLE</a>2
noaa-climate-weather-center2006bIf you're not a little soggy already, you must have heard by now about the deluge of rain that has been soaking New England for the past week, producing the some of the worst flooding the region has seen in 70 years. I just can't help wondering how things might be improved if green roofs played a more dominant role in conventional building practices. Instead of acres of non-porous asphalt, concrete and other materials funneling stormwatersstraight into overburdened drainages, we might have thousands of green rooftop oases to drink up the downpour!...<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/green-rooftops-conference/'>READ ARTICLE</a>3
todd_compositeIf you're not a little soggy already, you must have heard by now about the deluge of rain that has been soaking New England for the past week, producing the some of the worst flooding the region has seen in 70 years. I just can't help wondering how things might be improved if green roofs played a more dominant role in conventional building practices. Instead of acres of non-porous asphalt, concrete and other materials funneling stormwatersstraight into overburdened drainages, we might have thousands of green rooftop oases to drink up the downpour!...<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/green-rooftops-conference/'>READ ARTICLE</a>4
