Green Roofs

Today we started by reviewing our social marketing plans for getting people to turn of the lights. We also started to devise and advertising scheme to help remind people to turn of the lights. We came up with a few ideas such as posters, incentives, and competitions between youth centers. After this we headed over to University Park to see the green roof on the top of one of the buildings. A green roof is when you plant plants on the top of a roof so that rainfall is soaked up and either used by the plant and filtered helping reduce waste water runoff.

 

Waste water and the green roof

Today, we learned about waste water and how that affects our environment. Catherine Woodbury showed 2 videos to help us have a better understanding.  The video showed how a lot of people use stencil drains to dump their things such as wrappers, and if people don’t pick up after their dogs, anything besides water that gets in the drain. This all causes damage to the environment. The waste that gets in the drains will go directly to oceans or rivers, and this causes harm to the animals in the invironment, and also to the people who get their water from these rivers. The second video showed us how green roofs can help store a lot of the storm water and help prevent chemicals like pesticides to get into the drains that will eventually go to rivers. Seeing how cool green roofs were, I was excited when we went to go see a green roof on Sidney Street. It was really cool. Our tour guide talked about the technical stuff and how it worked, and a lot of us didn’t understand what he was talking about, but we got the basics. We ended our day there, and managed to get out earlier than usual.