Comments on: Green Roofs: Style + Sustainable = 17 Sweet Designs

By: phonono

phonono — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:25:20 +0000

There is no such thing as "weeds". What is not "useful" to man is not "useless".
I dunno why one would want to mow a roof, let alone a lawn. What a waste of energy =D
Like golfing...

By: Avarana

Avarana — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:20:40 +0000

Nice hobbitses!

By: Mouserz

Mouserz — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:28:27 +0000

Has anyone made a teletubby joke yet?

By: Polx

Polx — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:45:47 +0000

Should probably have added some detials to that.

Australia's Parliament is shallowly angled, and turfed over, the public can take a walk over the building to look down in on their elected officials.

By: Polx

Polx — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:23:59 +0000

Odd that the Parliament House Canberra Australia was not included.

The best thing about it is that there are windows on the roof where the people can look down on the politicians.

Symbolism is intentional if a little heavy handed.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Parliament_House%2C _Canberra.jpg

By: Zo

Zo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:13:54 +0000

Waldspirale looks like it comes out of the Dr. Seuss books.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:53:00 +0000

Some of them look like Bilbo's house. Is Bilbo an ecofreak?

By: Green Roofer

Green Roofer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:18:51 +0000

When did you see the CAS roof?
In winter it is pretty boring. Those 'weeds' are actually area natives. One of them is a native strawberry!

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:48:44 +0000

We went to the SF museum one... Unfortunately, it was pretty unimpressive because all we saw were weeds... lol. But even with flowers, it didn't look as awesome as the photos.

By: tomtom

tomtom — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:41:40 +0000

Why is it green 'roofs' and not 'rooves'?!? Is author have a grammar trouble?

Great post though. I wish houses could be more easily retrofitted and I wonder if you can still harvest rain water from these rooves?

By: anotherguy

anotherguy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:32:41 +0000

On the other hand, you can play golf right on top of your own house!

By: Ola Amigo

Ola Amigo — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:03:08 +0000

They look awesome. If they have an environmental benefit too all the better.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:43:52 +0000

"No, I can't go golfing with you guys today. Gotta mow the roof."