Green Roofs
Imagine walking in the city. Someone would expect grey buildings, crowds of people and all smothering civilization with almost no sign of natural life in sight. However, someone could walk up to the building and see beautiful flowers blossoming, hear birds chirping, and smell the wonderful scent of fresh roses from not only around the premises, but from also on top of the roof. This beautiful landscape would be the beginning of a new, clean, and healthier environment. If plants were to be grown on some of the rooftops in the city, then it would benefit people’s life economically and environmentally.
The process of growing plants on rooftops is called green roof. The history of Green roof technology states a lot of facts of green roof way before our time. Green roof started in Babylon in the 7th century B.C. Back then, green roof was known as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and it was a majestic structure built by King Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife Amyitis . In Scandinavia, roofs were covered with sod that was stripped from surrounding grass meadows. This was done to insulate homes. Also, back then green roofs were regarded as luxurious home amenities. In the same year, Professor Hans Luz, a German Landscape Architect, proposed the use of green roofs as a means of improving the quality of the urban environment . Also, prior to 1970, urban greening consisted of planting on pots on roofs, climbing vines for vertical faces of buildings, and underground garages covered with plants . In 1977, the creation of the FFL, a German landscape and landscape construction organization had started the formal study of green roof technology and its applications, and with that was said that this group is who we should thank for much of what we know about this technology today. Today, green roof technology is seen as an effective ecological approach towards urban design management. Green roofs would be very beneficial to the cities and to the citizenry.
The Term Paper on A Better Future with Green Technology
We live in the 21st century which has been called the “century of the environment”. Our nation’s leaders and individual citizens are coming to an understanding that we can not assume any longer that problems such as pollution, climate changes and the dwindling amount of natural resources can be put off for a future generation to deal with (Green Technology, 2010). There are many uses and reasons ...
Firstly, green roofs could help out the city in many of ways economically. There could be an extensive green roofs or an intensive green roofs. The extensive green roofs could consists of plants such as sedums and prairie flowers being utilized because they are low to the ground, will not be destroyed by nesting birds, require less maintenance, and can tolerate almost any kind of weather condition .Green roof would help to save a lot of money on roof membranes. Protection of roof membranes results in a longer material lifespan. It is estimated that green roofs will last up to twice as long as conventional roofs. With that being said, there would be a decrease in maintenance and savings in replacement costs. Also, green roofs would attract more people/tourists if they would see how neat and unique it looks.
Finally, green roof would help out environmentally in many different ways. In the cities there are all kinds of environmental problems that need to be handled. For example, most hospitals and health clinic facilities utilize the therapeutic benefits of green roofs. Most of these facilities use gardening as a way to enhance the healing process for patients. Also with that being said, the patient could also enjoy the comfort, fresh air, and landscape while restoring their health. Lithuanian urban areas have environmental problems that green roof would be able to eliminate. For example, storm-water management, reduction of pollution, improved air quality, decreased noise pollution, and quality habitats for insects and birds due to less available green space on the ground. With all these problems solved it would be a much pleasing environment in the city to work and live. City should be apart of such process, so that other cities or maybe even countries might consider joining and this would make the world a much cleaner and neater place.
The Essay on City Life vs Country Life
The difference between city life and country life is that if you live in the city, you have barely any privacy but, in the country life there can be woods all around your house and no one can see you. In the city there are lots of apartments not really houses and in the country you have your own houses that are bigger and the more people can come over. Lastly in the city you can’t hunt, you can’t ...
In conclusion, hopefully there will be a future of green roofs in the Lithuania. In Germany, it is estimated 12% of all flat-roofed buildings are covered with vegetation, a number that is increasing as the German green roof industry continues to grow 10 to 15% per year. How ever, even in Michigan and the rest of North America the concept of green roofs is also, just now being introduced. People should be more informed about this process, so that green roof will be the beginning of a new, clean, and healthier environment to not only one city, but to all the country. Different places should take part of this process, so that they would save a lot of money and help the environment out at the same time. Green roof would be very beneficial to a lot of places being that we are going through a recession and times have became hard for not only businesses, but also for all of us. Green roof will be very beneficial to the country economically, environmentally and even socially. It might take a long-term process for the green roofs to be complete, but after they are all done it will be worthwhile.
