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]]> By: City Comforts http://hugeasscity.com/2009/09/04/the-office-of-sustainable-urbanism/comment-page-1/#comment-9737 City Comforts Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:57:16 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/?p=1814#comment-9737 Dan, your link above concerning green roofs in Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof links to Penn State http://horticulture.psu.edu/node/386 But there is no information on that page which verifies the 10% figure. Btw, the issueis not whether green roofs are a nice idea or have benefits — I am in full agreement they are attractive and probably have many excellent qualities. The issue as I see it is but whether green roofs are the most cost-effective way to achieve the goals which they are supposed to fulfill: storm water quality and detention, energy use/building insulation, 'urban heat island' effect, natural habitat, general urban livability. Any others? I suspect -- and we need the studies to say one way or another -- that techniques other than green roofs will be more cost-effective. Dan, your link above concerning green roofs in Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof
links to Penn State
http://horticulture.psu.edu/node/386
But there is no information on that page which verifies the 10% figure.

Btw, the issueis not whether green roofs are a nice idea or have benefits — I am in full agreement they are attractive and probably have many excellent qualities.

The issue as I see it is but whether green roofs are the most cost-effective way to achieve the goals which they are supposed to fulfill:
storm water quality and detention,
energy use/building insulation,
‘urban heat island’ effect,
natural habitat,
general urban livability.

Any others?

I suspect — and we need the studies to say one way or another — that techniques other than green roofs will be more cost-effective.

]]> By: City Comforts http://hugeasscity.com/2009/09/04/the-office-of-sustainable-urbanism/comment-page-1/#comment-9718 City Comforts Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:02:11 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/?p=1814#comment-9718 Dan, I never said that green roofs don't work. I said (on my own blog) that green roofs are "experimental" and here I wrote that "no one knows yet." I have been very clear; I am not against green roofs. I am simply asserting that you cannot say accurately that "we all know what [sustainable] means." We don't. But my surmise (and it is only my own guess right now) is that the benefits of green roofs can be achieved as or more effectively and at lower cost by more prosaic methods. If you are willing to give it a fair hearing I will elaborate. Dan, I never said that green roofs don’t work. I said (on my own blog) that green roofs are “experimental” and here I wrote that “no one knows yet.” I have been very clear; I am not against green roofs. I am simply asserting that you cannot say accurately that “we all know what [sustainable] means.” We don’t.

But my surmise (and it is only my own guess right now) is that the benefits of green roofs can be achieved as or more effectively and at lower cost by more prosaic methods. If you are willing to give it a fair hearing I will elaborate.

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