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VOA Special English - DEVELOPMENT REPORT - How Green Is My (Rooftop) Garden? by Jerilyn Watson / Broadcast: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:00:00 UTC mp3download（1.82 M） 更多尽在VOA英语网 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Green roofs are designed to save energy and capture rainwater. Rooftops covered with plants help keep buildings cool. They can extend the life of a roof. And they can reduce water runoff into streets and storm water systems. 字串1 Chicago City Hall Several years ago, the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, visited Germany, a leader in green roof design. Mayor Richard Daley later decided to have vegetation planted on Chicago City Hall. Today, the tops of many other buildings also look like parks. In Canada, the Coast Plaza Hotel in Vancouver has a forest on its roof. Experts say green roofs usually do not get much above twenty-seven degrees Celsius. So temperatures might not be a problem for growing. But rooftop gardeners have to be careful not to put too much weight on the roof. This is true whether plants are grown in soil or water. New York City has an unusual demonstration farm for hydroponics. The farm is on a boat called the Science Barge. Rainwater and purified river water are used to grow lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. The farm shows the possibilities for designing rooftop systems. Earlier this year, researchers in Texas reported that green roofs can reduce a building's air conditioning costs by about one-fifth compared to black-top roofs. But they also reported that not all green roofs perform equally well. They found that designs differ in their ability to keep buildings cool and to capture rainwater. Mark Simmons led the study for the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas at Austin. "Green roofs have to be done right," he says. For example, he says, "Just having a green roof may not mean anything in terms of preventing water from reaching the street level." The team put experimental roofs on top of metal insulated boxes, to recreate green roof conditions. The study compared products from six companies. The researchers say they want to help businesses understand how to improve their designs. Each rooftop had sixteen different kinds of plants native to Texas. The researchers say the presence of native plants likely helped all the green roofs capture water better compared to sedums. Sedums are plants that need little water and often are used on green roofs. 字串3 The native plants could take in more water and release more of it to the atmosphere. And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. 更多尽在VOA英语网 [ Last edited by wisdom2003 on 2008-11-4 at 10:42 ] |
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