Ava Marie and Carrie Engel from Valley View Farms visited the community garden at CCBC to discuss green roof technology and how it can help make architecture sustainable. Ava Marie and Carrie Engel ...

New green roof technology, called the Advanced Vegetative Roof System, utilizes patented, cornstarch-based granules that work like a sponge, holding and releasing water as the plant roots need it.

This article was originally featured on Undark. Sweat was dripping down Luis Cassiano’s face. It was 2012, and Rio de Janeiro’s hottest day to date: At nearly 110 degrees Fahrenheit, the seaside city ...

Landscape technicians Brianna Grodahl (left) and Kevin Gohl, who work for Aloha Landscaping in Mendota Heights, MN, helped plant the green roof. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), Prior ...

In the vast concrete jungles of metal, glass, and concrete urban centers, a newly popularized, sustainable effort has begun to glimmer vibrantly—green roofs. Notably, many Concrete Contractors in ...

If you walk up to the roof of a social-housing apartment building in Amsterdam, you’ll see a sprawling garden covered in plants. Hidden under the flowers and grass is an extra layer: a thin reservoir ...

Green roofed structures date back thousands of years, even before the concept of housing as it is known today was birthed. The earliest green roofs came in the form of sod roofs above caves. Plants ...

Minneapolis City Hall may eventually have something that’s conspicuously absent from the nearby Metro dome – real grass. The Municipal Building Commission, which maintains City Hall and the Hennepin ...

Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week’s question comes from Collin in Brandon, Manitoba, in Canada. A green roof is a roof that’s ...

The Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE — Five generations of the Snodgrass family have prospered at Emory Knoll Farms in Harford County. Its 365 acres have evolved from a 19th-century dairy operation to a crop ...