GREEN ROOF GARDEN AND FARMS

Project Outline
v 3 Possible Project Ideas
Ø Implementing green roof gardens and farms in urban cities (specifically Temple area)
Ø Constructing an indoor farming facility in urban cities
Ø Building and managing community parks, gardens, and green lands in Philadelphia
v The Idea – Green Roof Gardens and Farms
Ø Design, construct, and implement rooftop gardens including green rooftop farms atop the buildings un-urban cities (specifically Temple University’s infrastructure)
Ø Goals:
§ Reduction in Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions
§ Reduction in energy usage from stationary sources at Temple University
• Stationary sources are 27% of Temple’s energy usage and ecological footprint
§ Reduction in energy consumption and increased plant life into Temple’s community
• The Modules is an off-campus building with green gardening on its’ rooftops which offer biodiversity and contributes to the biogeochemical cycles as well as reducing energy
v Research
Ø Green Roof Benefits – Greenroofs.org
§ The source defines and states the overall benefits for including green roofs as well as many public, private, and design-based benefits.
§ Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) professionals are an excellent source for their green roof expertise.
• Public Benefits includes aesthetic improvement, waste diversion, storm water management, moderation of urban heat island effect, improved air quality, new amenity spaces, and local job creation.
• Private Benefits includes energy efficiency, increased roofing membrane durability, fire retardation, reduction of electromagnetic radiation, noise reduction, and marketing.
• Design-Specific Benefits include increased biodiversity, improved health/well-being, an increase in urban agriculture, and educational opportunities.
Ø Rooftop Farming Is Getting Off the Ground – NPR.org
§ NPR studies and discusses rooftop farming across urban cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and New York in their “Rooftop Farming Is Getting Off the Ground” source.
§ The green-roof movement has been gaining momentum over the recent years as cities are beginning to base these green roofs as the center of their sustainability plans
§ NPR also tends to lay out the many obstacles for transforming more green roofs into farms which include the following: permissions, delivering soil and water to the roof, dealing with growing conditions that are typical of roofs (sun, wind, snow).
Ø Food Roof Farm – Urbanharveststl.org
§ Urban Harvest states that the Food Roof Farm is a platform that may sustain an entire ecosystem which may include food crops, a pollination garden, chickens, and a honeybee apiary.
§ Urban Harvest studies and mentions that the benefits of Food Roof Farms
• Social Benefits include increase access to healthy food, engaging urban schools, inspiring citizens to grow their down food, provide food to people in need, and to create a productive green space.
• Economical Benefits include reducing building energy costs, increasing the life span of the roof, creating jobs, supporting the local economy, and improving property values.
• Environmental Benefits include enhancing biodiversity, improving air quality, decreasing urban heal island effect, mitigating storm water runoff and flooding, and reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions from transportation

 
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