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	<title>ECO BROOKLYN INC. - Green Design/Build Firm &#187; Green Roof</title>
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		<title>Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 01:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls by Nigel Dunnet and Noel Kingsbury is an authoritative book and should be on the shelf of any Brooklyn green roof installer.
I bought it in the hopes it would help improve the Eco Brooklyn living wall technique for Brooklyn brownstones where plants are actually growing on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Walls and Green Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 19:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great pdf doc on green walls. It is created by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, an excellent resource for urban green roofs and living walls.
We install living walls in Brooklyn and are constantly looking for better techniques. The art is still very new and we are still very much in the exploration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Green Roof Maintenance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 00:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went to check on one of the green roofs we installed last year in Park Slope. It looked good! Some of the edges were a little wind bare but for the most part the sedum were happy and growing.

We are Brooklyn green roof installers and it is really satisfying watching us spread a sea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Green Roof Strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 20:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Roof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Show House]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to check this picture out. It is of a strawberry on the green roof of the Brooklyn Green Show House. Notice the pine cone, sedum, flowers in the background. It is a world as seen from a field mouse or bee. We can see things like this too.

      [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Park Slope Green Roof and Deck Design</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/park-slope-green-roof-deck-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a green roof and deck we are designing for a job in Park Slope Brooklyn. The deck area ranges from 900-1100 square feet. It would be made out of salvaged fir or possibly Black Locust if budget permits.
The pergolas are intentionally without many beams. The vegetation will be the main source of shade. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queens Botanical Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of our National Sustainable Building Adviser Course we visited the Queens Botanical Garden. It is amazing. The new building is totally decked out with the best of green building:
solar, rainwater, gray water, toilet composting, natural vantialtion. You name it.
But their greatest thing for me was their green roof. Really amazing.
Shashin Error: unable to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weights of green roofs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn NY brownstones are not built to carry heavy loads on their roofs. So when you install a green roof you need to build for it and know what the weights are.
Here are the numbers from my friend Avra:
Extensive &#8211; 10-50 lb/squ. ft
Semi-intensive 30-90lb/sq. ft.
Intensive 80-150 lb/sq. ft.
Here are thicknesses for each:
extensive &#8211; 6&#8243; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GreenRoofs.org</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/greenroofsorg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GreenRoofs.org is my favorite green roof resource on the web. Run by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities the web site is full of useful info.
If you ever wanted to put a green roof on your New York home then that should be the first place to look. When we are researching the best way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Green Roof</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/cool-green-roof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now here is a great green roof.

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		<title>Solar Panels on the Brownstone Roof</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/solar-panels-brownstone-roof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[solar panels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Brooklyn green show house has a green roof, solar panels, and solar water heater panels. Needless to say that is a lot to fit on a 600 square foot space. So we&#8217;re looking at ways to fit it all in.
Considerations are:
Make it look nice from the street and back yard.
Make it wind resistent.
Make it [...]]]></description>
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