:: Mountain Equipment Co-op, Toronto - image via Clean Air through Green Roofs
Some interesting news on the Veg.itectural front. Last week has the opening of the High Line - coming to much love, and of course, the backlash. Some highlights:
:: There’s always a hater (Inspiration Wall)
:: At Least One Person Hates NYC’s New Highline Park (Infrastructurist)
Funny, but if it was coming from anyone else than James Howard Kunstler, I'd probably respond - but I just don't care enough about his opinion to give a rats ass. Interesting reading though, and definitely worth a follow-up. And On the heels of the latest sedum-love fest at the Atlanta Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities conference, Linda Velasquez at Sky Gardens gets to the bottom of this with an in-depth interview with the chair of the GRHC Training and Accreditation commitee about the new Green Roof Professional Accredition. Hoops, we've got hoops!
:: The GRP Accreditation: An Interview with Jeffrey L. Bruce (Sky Gardens)
The distinction between roofing and green roofing has always been an interesting dichotomy. Turns out it's legally nebulous as well - as pointed out in Shari Shapiro's Green Building Law site:
:: Green Roofing--Landscaping? Roofing? Controversy! (Green Building Law)
And relatedly - with all this talk of green roofs, a call for the white... ok fine, but at least think about green first. Maybe it's even the law, as is the case in Toronto, and parts of Japan and Switzerland, amongst others, have on the books.
::Where Green Roofs are the Law (Clean Air through Green Roofs)
:: Now That We All Agree White Roofs Are A Great Idea–Let’s Use Stimulus Money To Make It Happen! (Infrastructurist)
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