{"id":33318,"date":"2024-04-22T16:33:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=33318"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:33:33","slug":"green-roofs-are-great-blue-green-roofs-are-even-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=33318","title":{"rendered":"Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/o.v.v.2520Dakdokters2C2520Vesteda2C2520blauw-groen2520dak2520Boelelaan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"209\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Amsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture water for a building\u2019s residents. Welcome to the squeezable sponge city of tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/blue-green-roofs-amsterdam-resilio-climate-adaptation-sponge-cities\/\">Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Not every building can go blue-green, though. The additional infrastructure isn\u2019t itself all that heavy, but the water it holds is. So it\u2019s relatively cheap and easy to build the system into new construction, accounting for the extra weight, but older buildings might need retrofits to accommodate that.&#8221;<br><br>Taxes on the amount of impermeable area on a property, like concrete, that incentivize landowners to develop gardens and other green spaces instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam is experimenting with roofs that not only grow plants but capture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1373,870,1956,205],"class_list":["post-33318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-drought","tag-floods","tag-roofing","tag-water","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33321,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33318\/revisions\/33321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}