EcoCity Builders
Ecocity Builders
Interesting website discussing ecological building. Ecocity Builders are based in Berkeley:
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to reshaping cities, towns and villages for long term health of human and natural systems. Our goals include returning healthy biodiversity to the heart of our cities, agriculture to gardens and the streets, and convenience and pleasure to walking, bicycling and transit. We visualize a future in which waterways in neighborhood environments and prosperous downtown centers are opened for curious children, fish, frogs and dragonflies. We work to build thriving neighborhood centers while reversing sprawl development, to build whole cities based on human needs and ‚access by proximity‚ rather than cities built in the current pattern of automobile driven excess, wasteful consumption and the destruction of the biosphere.
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- clive greenstone says:
i am currently researching roof gardens and window boxes, and how feasible and practical they actually are. my research is centred around a development that is currently underway on the east coast of south africa (durban)known as the point development, which has subsequently taken no intiative to try and develop away from environmentally damaging conventional methods. i was wondering if alternatives such as roof gardens and window boxes and general greening of these existing buildings was a possibilty or does it have to be initiated prior to construction, or is their a technique that can be installed post construction completion. your expert opinion wolud be greatly appreciated.
regards
clive
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i am currently researching roof gardens and window boxes, and how feasible and practical they actually are. my research is centred around a development that is currently underway on the east coast of south africa (durban)known as the point development, which has subsequently taken no intiative to try and develop away from environmentally damaging conventional methods. i was wondering if alternatives such as roof gardens and window boxes and general greening of these existing buildings was a possibilty or does it have to be initiated prior to construction, or is their a technique that can be installed post construction completion. your expert opinion wolud be greatly appreciated.
regards
clive