Green Roof Drought 2011 New York Times

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Green roof drought 2011 new york times.

Find breaking news multimedia reviews opinion on washington business sports movies travel books jobs education real estate cars. Then we imagined what the city could be like if all of its roof space was green. These assemblies offer numerous potential benefits from absorbing rainwater runoff and providing insulation to mitigating the urban heat island effect and providing greenspace. As its name suggests a vegetated or green roof includes shallow rooted plant material that can withstand extreme climatic conditions atop buildings.

The same year san francisco began requiring that 15 to 30 percent of roof space on new buildings incorporate solar panels green roofs or both. More recently the new york city council passed a. In california in 2014 alone the cost of the drought was 2 2 billion with 17 000 agricultural jobs lost. The severe drought across texas has hit the oil and gas city of midland especially hard as i reported in friday s new york times and texas tribune since oct.

Inspired by a summer of relentless heat and drought designers in austin tex are using native prairie grass to create landscapes that thrive in even the worst of conditions. We took a field trip to the largest green roof in new york city. The new york times. The major obstacle to the spread of green roofs is the initial cost which can be anywhere from 15 to 35 per square foot some two to three times the cost of a non green roof.

1 midland has received only 0 13 inches of rainfall making it most likely the driest six and a half month period in recorded history said david hennig a midland based meteorologist with the national weather service. According to a new york study green surfaces would substantially reduce the city s heat island effects. One of the largest green roofs in new york city was unveiled wednesday by the united states postal service at its morgan processing and distribution center on ninth avenue between 29th and 30th streets. The seventh floor rooftop of the 1930s building has been transformed from a tar and stone covered no man s land into a 2 5 acre parklike recreational space for.