I’ve had this idea for a couple years now that it would be necessary for any building over a certain amount of stories to have a roof top garden to help clean the air hopefully reducing the amount of smog that high traffic areas receive. I was wondering if this is cost effective, how much of an impact it would have and how I would go about trying to put it into action.
Hey! This is a great idea, something I’d love to see in our city as well. I don’t know if you’ve taken ENV100, but in that class a guest presenter named Jeff Licht introduced us to the concept of Green Roofs. I also found it interesting in that lecture that he had mentioned using recyclable materials like cardboard in order to create the roof-top containers used in his green roofing projects. Maybe you could check that out!
Good idea, that would actullay be a really good thing to do!
There was a story the other day in the Toronto Star on this – our new mayor wants to weaken the new bylaw about green roofs:
http://www.thestar.com/news/torontocouncil/article/926387–industries-may-escape-green-roof-bylaw
I’m actually working on this topic for my blog post!
Looks like we’ve got one fine critical thinker:)