Cities Mandate Green Roofs to Capture Stormwater, Cool Environment and Support Biodiversity
Sourced from ABC 15 Arizona
Green roofs are vegetated spaces on top of buildings. They offer many benefits like capturing stormwater, cooling the environment, and supporting biodiversity.
They also suck carbon out of the air which helps to reduce the impacts of climate change. Horticulturalist Jennifer Bousselot is planting one atop a Colorado State University building called CSU Spur in Denver, Colorado.
“Adding vegetation is a way to filter that air and essentially sequester a lot of those pollutants,” Bousselot said.
Bousselot says there's a green roof requirement for new buildings of a certain size in the city of Denver.
She was instrumental in getting that green roof ordinance passed, and she says many cities across the U.S. are doing the same.
“There's one in San Francisco," Bousselot said. "There's now one in New York. And then there are older ones in both Chicago and Portland that have been around for decades.”
From the Living Architecture Monitor
