Green Roofs in Canada

CTV has published a story on green roofs in Canada.

What would it take to get a change to Calgary’s land-use by-laws, and the provincial building code, to strongly encourage — if not require — that new building roofs incorporate green roofs and/or solar or wind power collection?

The article mentions Greenroofs.com, a site dedicated to the field. They have a couple videos up. Here’s a short one promoting the idea of living roofs:

Toronto passes green roof by-law

Yesterday, Toronto’s city council passed a “By-law to Require and Govern the Construction of Green Roofs in Toronto”. I wonder what it would take to get Calgary to follow suit?

National Geographic on Green Roofs

National Geographic has a new article looking at Green Roofs.