Roofs & Rambles

I was fortunate to be invited to do a speaking tour of Alberta in Canada in June 2010. The tour included talks in Calgary, Banff and Edmonton. When I was in the City of Edmonton, the City interviewed me on camera.

Inspecting a green roof for a client the other day in London, I chanced upon an intrepid sole, who unbeknown to the management team of the estate had been doing a little urban farming of his own.

Just been rummaging through this years pictures on iphoto and came across this group. They were taken on a green roof in Emmen Switzerland. I have already blogged about this roof. Nature happening on a green roof, their are probably over 50 species of plants on the roof and it was certainly a draw for [...]

Deep in the heart of downtown Edmonton is a wonderful green roof atop the offices of Stantec. I was fortunate to visit this green roof during my speaker/lecture tour of Alberta back in June. The green roof could be considered a green roof designed for native biodiversity. Much of the planting is native and, certainly [...]

The bee hive is installed. The garden green roof is planted. And now there are plans afoot to green up the rest of the 3500m2 of roofspace currently an ugly grey green too. This would be one of the largest retrofits in London and could demonstrate the way forward in helping London adapt to climate [...]

We installed the green roof on the King Alfred School roofs back in late March. Three months on the roofs is developing into a lovely species rich green roof. On installation the green roofs consisted of brown green roof substrate and a collection of plug plants. However we had also seeded the roof with annuals [...]