http://www.bceq.org/2009/02/25/staying-warm-grass-pellets-may-be-one-solution/
So, now we have it. Grass not only absorbs water on the site, but its clippings can be used for sustainable alternative fuels. It’s a win win situation!
I signed up for a two hour discussion of Green Roofs conducted by the EPA. We had about 1000 people online and here are some good links and contacts. There is a great video worth while watching – Reduce Runoff: Slow It Down, Spread It Out, Soak It In
GREEN ROOFS – BEAUTIFUL AND INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO STORM WATER RUNOFF
Contacts
Steven W. Peck, Founder and President of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
speck@greenroofs.org
Robert D. Cameron, Center for Green Roof Research at Penn State University
rdc170@psu.edu
Tom Liptan, Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services
toml@bes.ci.portland.or.us
Additional Resources
EPA’s Low Impact Development Web Site
www.epa.gov/nps/lid
EPA’s Green Infrastructure Web site
www.epa.gov/greeninfrastructure
EPA video highlighting green practices, including green roofs – Reduce Runoff: Slow It Down, Spread It Out, Soak It In
www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/video.html
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
www.greenroofs.org
Center for Green Roof Research at Penn State University
web.me.com/rdberghage/Centerforgreenroof/Home.html
City of Portland’s Ecoroof Program
www.portlandonline.com/osd/index.cfm?a=114728&c=42113
City of Chicago’s Green Roof Web site
egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalDeptCategoryAction.do?deptCategoryOID=-
536890773&contentType=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=Dept&entityName=Planning+A
nd+Development&deptMainCategoryOID=-536884767
City of Toronto’s Green Roof Web site
www.toronto.ca/greenroofs/index.htm
American Society of Landscape Architects Green Roof
land.asla.org/050205/greenroofcentral.html
The following are documents I requested from the NPS on the new parkland appraisals for the Yankee Stadium swap.
I had some difficulty uploading them here so check on them at this link:
http://www.bceq.org/2009/02/04/foiling-the-nps-for-yankee-stadium-parks-replacements/
Today there is a great Op Ed in the New York Times. Here is the full story with an excerpt below – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/opinion/03herbert.html?_r=2
. …………The American Society of Civil Engineers, in a report released last week, essentially described the state of American infrastructure as dreadful. More than a quarter of the nation’s bridges were rated structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Public transportation systems and the nation’s dams and levees are generally in sorry shape, many of them more than a half-century old.
Listen to what the report had to say about the water we drink:
“America’s drinking water systems face an annual shortfall of at least $11 billion to replace aging facilities that are near the end of their useful life and to comply with existing and future federal water regulations. This does not account for growth in the demand for drinking water over the next 20 years. Leaking pipes lose an estimated seven billion gallons of clean drinking water a day.”
The society gave the nation’s infrastructure an overall grade of D and said it would require an investment of $2.2 trillion over five years to get it back into decent shape ………………..
And, there is an interesting video I found mentioned in the comments section: http://www.liquidassets.psu.edu/