Green roofs are an old idea.
Green roof settlement.
The green roof oasis acts as a natural habitat a habitat expansion program to foster local bird and wildlife populations in new york city.
In fact reconstructions of norse sod houses dating from 1000 a d.
History happening as early at 1948 although spotted by a coast guard helicopter in 1978.
As part of a settlement with exxonmobil the green roof project was funded by the attorney general s office through the greenpoint community environmental fund.
Stuttgart in germany is thought of as the green roof capital of europe while singapore is even installing green roofs on buses.
Yet newtown creek is the site of one of the largest oil spills in u s.
Are protected as a unesco world heritage site in l anse aux meadows newfoundland and commemorate the earliest known european settlement in north america.