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Green/Brown Roofs

To: "Angus Innes" <>, "Birding Aus" <>, "Brant Tate" <>
Subject: Green/Brown Roofs
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:06:47 +0000
I did not get Peter Shute's message that you passed on to me. But, the answer 
is GREEN as in plants growing on the roof. In the US we have Canada Geese ans 
Mallards nesting on green roofs too high for the hatchlings to jump from.  We 
get many calls to rescue ducklings each spring. I note that Graeme Hopkins 
mentions a roof nesting goose in his book (Living Architecture)- but it must 
have been a low roof.       -TATE
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From: Angus Innes <>
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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:05:55 
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Subject: Green/Brown Roofs








Peter Shute wrote: "By "green roofs", do you mean green in colour, or roofs 
with solar panels on them?" in response to Jim Tate's e-mailon the "Brisbane 
River terns" chain.Jim will undoubtedly reply for himself, but just for the 
wider readership it may be of interest to highlight the interest in the 
utilisation of urban rooftops for augmenting the natural environment (or 
countering negative impacts on the environment) in Britain and Europe. 
Undoubtedly this is because of the much greater percentage of urbanised land. 
It has spawned a movement variously known as the "greenroof movement" - (or the 
related "brownroof movement") which aims to persuading the developers of urban 
buildings to incorporate natural vegetation and soils/gravels on the rooftops 
of new buildings. I have placed to links below (or phrases to enter into Google 
or other search machines) - one UK focussed and the other a European focussed 
link. The photo image which appears on the Home page of the first link i
 s of a modest demonstration of the philosophy which is a shelter built in a 
demonstration sustainable garden built at the London Wetland Centre (where I 
act as a volunteer guide). The two sites show many images of buildings with 
green roof treatment.One of the most spectacular examples that I have seen is 
the roof treatment of the hotel at Uluru, although that was obviously intended 
for landscape blending purposes - but with terrific plantings of desert flowers 
amd shrubs (or at least it was n the 80s). The links:
livingroofs.org
AND
http://www.efb-greenroof.eu/index.html
Angus Innes.

                                          
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