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A green roof is a conventional roof covered with a layer of vegetation, also known as “living roofs”. Green roofs serve several purposes for a building, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a wildlife habitat and helping to lower urban air temperatures and combat the urban heat island effect. There are two types of green roofs: intensive roofs, which are thicker and can support a wider variety of plants but heavy and require ongoing maintenance, and extensive roofs, which are covered in a light layer of vegetation and are lighter than an intensive green roof.

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• Does Sydney need a desalination plant?
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• Cloud feedback wrong in climate models, paper
  A recent paper by Miller et al 2012 in the AMS Journal indicates that the climate models could be out by a factor of 19 with respect to actual cloud feedback.
• Droughts in the USA, not
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• Food - the other inconvenient truth
  Informative talk by Jonathan Foley on how our drive to produce yet more and more food is affecting our planet.
• Maths Bug on Android updated
  The Maths Bug app on Android has undergone major updates..
• If you want a democracy to fail...
  A video well worth watching that underlines what this is all about.
• The Denial Escalator
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• Renewable power cannot reproduce base load availability
  We look at the question of whether renewable power is able to provide 100% coverage for base load and therefore remove the need for it.
• Extreme weather not related to Climate Change says IPCC
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• Queensland cuts back on Green Schemes
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• Labor loose big time in Queensland
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• Electricity Bills go through the roof!
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• New Rainwater harvesting calculator
  This new calculator allows you to work out the practical tank size given average per month rainfall, your roof area and expected monthly water usage.

• cigu creates a hotel room of the future that emphasizes water recycling
  For the Hôtel Métropole exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Parisian design collective ciguë recently showcased "Une chambre pour demain" (A Room for Tomorrow), an experimental redesign of a hotel room that champions water recycling...
• This highly insulated modular home is completely self-sustaining
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• LAVA breaks ground on sustainable energy tower in Heidelberg
  A dynamic new icon of sustainable energy is rising in Heidelberg, Germany. Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) just broke ground on a new energy storage tower for Stadtwerke Heidelberg (SWH) that will be the Heidelberg’s tallest building and...
• Tiny Taku Tanku Mobile Shelter is Carved Out of Recycled Rainwater Tanks
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• Architecture for a Change’s Mamelodi Pod is a Self-Sustaining Solution to Shantytowns
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• KUBIK: Recycled Water Tanks Transformed into a Glowing Holiday Pop Up Party in Vienna
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