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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Florida Green Roofs and Insulation Value

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Do Florida Green Roofs provide insulation or not?  Good question.  There are several different perspectives on the topic. One current beli...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Green Roofs Fight Cancer

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Green roofs and living walls can help clean the air and allow us to breath easier. Many geographic locations acros the globe have air c...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Easy Florida Living Wall

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Yesterday we posted a note about a struggling living wall.  Yet living walls, if planned properly, can be easy too. Ficus punila, living...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Living Wall Update, Whole Foods, Jacksonville

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One year ago, during February 2012 we examined in a post dying 'living walls' across the Whole Foods store in Jacksonville, proposi...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Awesome Stormwater Drainage Filtration (Plants of Course!)

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Though native species would have been better than grasses, I am still awarding the designer of the below stormwater collection system an A+ ...
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Florida Green Roof Plants in Action

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Lovely photo of an older green roof in Jacksonville ( 8+ years old ).  Note this roof is nature irrigated only and has survived several Trop...
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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Marfan Dissection and My St Jude Aortic Valve

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Along with the Dacron Graft I received a St. Jude valva.  Below is a photo of the specific model that keeps me alive.  The surgeon, Dr. Bate...

Green Roof Plants, Frost Damage to Certain CAM Plants

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In earlier posts, we examined the damage frost can do to the mesophyll cells of C3 plants. Mesophyll cells are those cells across the surfac...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Green Roof & Living Wall Plants and Wind Exposure

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Wind can seriously impact the long term survival of Green Roof and Living Wall plants. Included here are two photos of the same black-eye ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Low Cost Greenhouse for Green Roof Plants or Urban Core Permaculture

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We are now proud owners of a low cost, easy to build greenhouse in our Urban Core backyard. Low Cost Seed Starting & Green Roof Pla...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Harvesting Fog and Dew for Drinking Water and Vegetable Garden Irrigation

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With natural water supplies drying up and disappearing and areas affected by drought increasing in acreage every day, learning how to harves...
Friday, January 4, 2013

Extreme Rooftop and Roadside Micro-Biodiversity

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Sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees. US1 Highway, Flagler County   Sometimes we can't see the forest for the rooft...
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Living with an Aortic Dissection & Marfan Syndrome

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Living with a dissected aorta, Kevin Songer & granddaughter Cali I experienced a 'root to foot' aortic dissection on November 30...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Florida Living Walls for the Urban Core - Stormwater, Ethnobotany, Habitat & Heat Island Cooling

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Florida Living Wall using Native Plants Living walls are a popular method of adding vertical green to the Urban Core.  Living walls cont...
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Friday, December 7, 2012

Vegetated Green Roof Mats for Metal & Standing Seam Roofs

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Green and Vegetated Mat Roof systems can easily be adapted to metal standing seam roofs. Because vegetated mats are monolithic - an in...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Low Cost Housing - Sustainability, Scalability and Integration of Food Walls and Vegetated Roofs

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I keep coming back to my favorite design for greenhouses where integration of food, stormwater and recycled materials creates a home for our...