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Green Roofs Differ in Building Cooling, Water Handling Capabilities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first study to compare the performance of different types of green roofs has been completed by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and suggests that buyers shouldn't ...


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Green roofs differ in building cooling, water handling capabilities

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The first study to compare the performance of different types of green roofs has been completed by The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and suggests that buyers shouldn't ...


'Green' roofs may help put lid on global warming

'Green' roofs may help put lid on global warming

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan are reporting.


ACS podcast: Grow a garden on your roof to battle climate change

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan report in the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning podcast ...





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Chicago plan would pay for 'green roofs'

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 24, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wants to pay building owners an incentive to create "green roofs" by planting gardens on top of their buildings.


Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 6

Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...


Buying green can be license for bad behavior, study finds

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Those lyin', cheatin' green consumers. Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science has found.


'Build parks to climate proof our cities'

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created May 14, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists looking at the effect global warming will have on our major cities say a modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees could offset decades of predicted temperature rises.


Energy savings in black and white

Color-changing roof tiles absorb heat in winter, reflect it in summer

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has ever stepped barefoot onto blacktop pavement on a hot sunny day knows the phenomenon very well: Black surfaces absorb the sun's heat very efficiently, producing a toe-scorching ...


Antifibrotic effects of green tea

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Several studies have shown that lipid peroxidation stimulates collagen production in fibroblasts and hepatic stellate cells (HSC), and plays an important role in the development of liver fibrosis. Hepatoprotective effects ...


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China to become 'global leader in green tech'

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created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

China can become the world's top exporter of "green technology" if it carries out crucial energy and ecological reforms, leading environmental campaigners said here Saturday.


Green tea shows promise as chemoprevention agent for oral cancer, study finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Green tea extract has shown promise as cancer prevention agent for oral cancer in patients with a pre-malignant condition known as oral leukoplakia, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer ...


Researchers produce world’s first transgenic sweet sorghum

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ (University of Queensland) researchers are leading green energy technology with confirmation of the world’s first transgenic sweet sorghum plants.


Hydrogen-making algae's 'Achilles' heel' discovered

Hydrogen-making algae's 'Achilles' heel' discovered

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how oxygen stops green algae from producing hydrogen. The findings could help those working towards 'solar H2-farms' in which microorganisms produce hydrogen fuel ...



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