green rooftops

Green Rooftops

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Author
Corrie Zoll
Minnesota Green Roofs Council

Minnesota is home to nearly 100 green rooftops. That's a million square feet of live plants on top of buildings rather than hot, hard roof surfaces. Green rooftops make roof membranes last longer while reducing energy costs and managing storm water. Expect to see the number of green roofs in the state double or triple over the next decade.

Resources

Web Resources 

Minnesota Green Roofs Council
www.greenroofs.org

RoofBloom Program
www.RoofBloom.org

Print Resources

Green Roof Plants, Edmund Snodgrass and Lucie Snodgrass, Timber Press, 2006.

Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls, Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury, Timber Press, 2004.

Organizations

The Bakken Museum
3537 Zenith Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN
(accessible to museum visitors)

Brit's Pub
1110 Nicollet Avenue
Minneapolis, MN
(open seasonally to customers)

Lebanon Hills Regional Park Visitors Center
860 Cliff Road, Eagan, MN
(sloped green roof can be seen from the ground outside the visitors center)

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