Wildfires are sadly becoming a regular occurrence, particularly in the sun-soaked southwestern US states. As homeowners and construction experts look at ways of increasing property protection, the ...

There are plenty of practical ways to make a real environmental impact on your site with these sustainable building ...

It’s hard to miss the soaring three-acre meadow that graces the top of Barclays Center. But green roofs – or living roofs — are also branching into brownstone Brooklyn, where homeowners with sturdy ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

NEW YORK — Over the past decade, acres of living roofs have appeared in New York City, as commercial building owners have transformed their rooftops into meadows of wildflowers, sprawling beds of ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The company whose "green roof" dried up atop The Rapid bus station blames the transit system for the $220,000 mistake, saying it failed to care for it. The transit system allowed the ...

Question: Would you recommend using sedum for a green roof project in Houston? Will the humidity effect the sedum? If sedum would be a poor choice, what would you recommend for Houston? Question: ...

Green roofs, living roofs, vegetated roofs, ecoroofs — whatever you want to call them, they are sprouting up everywhere lately, including atop residential homes. And with that increase in popularity ...

Don’t freak out, but there’s a problem with green roofs: They’re not necessarily greener than ordinary roofs. Soooooo kind of a major problem. With a little extra effort, though, green roofs can be ...

PLANTED ROOFS, despite their casual country air, are going uptown. And where else but in the heart of the city is their green relief more welcome? We now have three seriously large green roofs in ...

In the Dutch city of Utrecht, the roofs of hundreds of bus stops were recently covered with low-growing succulent plants called sedum. It’s not to make them look good (though it does). It’s to create ...

EL CERRITO — The new Korematsu Middle School at 1725 Donal Drive has a feature that aims to please the neighbors as well as the environmentally conscious city at large in the form of a pair of “living ...