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Small Green Roofs
Low-Tech Options for Greener Living

By Dunnett, Nigel

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ISBN: 1604690593 Contributors: Snodgrass, Edmund C.; Gedge, Dusty; Little, John Publisher: Workman Pub Co Published: Apr 27 2011 Pages: 256 Weight: 1.60lbs. Height: 9.00" Width: 8.00" Depth: 0.75" Language: English

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This colorful guide to building small scale living roofs provides practical instruction for creating ecologically friendly coverings for sheds, garages and accessory buildings with grasses, moss, lichens and other growing plants. Sections cover the structural requirements for building green roofs an...

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This colorful guide to building small scale living roofs provides practical instruction for creating ecologically friendly coverings for sheds, garages and accessory buildings with grasses, moss, lichens and other growing plants. Sections cover the structural requirements for building green roofs and retrofitting existing structures, types of plants and planting strategies and encouraging biodiversity. The bulk of the volume showcases finished small scale green roof projects form the UK and the United States in numerous color photographs. An appendix supplies a plant directory, list of green roof resources, and brief bibliography. Dunnett is a professor of urban horticulture at the University of Sheffield, Gedge is the founder of livingroofs.org, an independent living roof association, and Little is a partner in The Grass Roof Company. Snodgrass (The Green Roof Manual) founded the first green roof company in the US. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)