Sustainable Urban Rooftops Urbanstrong

Conversation highlights

• It doesn’t feel right that with we have so little opportunity to connect with nature here given the huge percentage of our lives we spend in dense urban centers.
• Green roofs clean and cool the air, sequester carbon and provide rooftop habitats for birds, bees, bats, butterflies, and much more. 
• Farm-to-table is great but roof-to-table is even better
• Green roofs perform multiple functions with societal, environmental, building operations, and mental health benefits, all simultaneously. 
• Building owners should be thinking of their rooftops as buckets instead of lids, because there's money falling out of the sky.
• Solar panels lose operating efficiency when the ambient air around them gets too hot but Plants cool the air around them through through evapotranspiration so when you install solar panels directly on top of green roofing, the plants cool the air underneath the solar panels and help them to produce more electricity

GUEST / ALAN BURCHELL / PRINCIPAL, URBANSTRONG

• https://urbanstrong.com/
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• Book reference: Nature's Best Hope
• Brooklyn Grange Farm

HOST / MATT MORLEY / WELLBEING CHAMPION

• https://biofilico.com/    
• https://biofit.io/ 
• https://www.mattmorley.net/