Green Landscape Design Los Angeles - Green Roofs

Rooftop gardens and green roofs have a two fold effect: they contribute to cooling the structure on which they are cultivated, and they utilize storm water that would otherwise run off to storm drains. Plant surfaces do not rise more than a few degrees (Celsius) above the ambient temperature. As a result, plants cool the area that they inhabit by anywhere between 4 and 11 degrees Celsius. In fact, it was calculated that "the temperature in Tokyo could be lowered by 0.110.84 C if 50% of all

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