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	<title>Roof Info &#187; Green Roofs</title>
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		<title>Is White the New Green? New Study from Climatic Change.</title>
		<link>http://roofinfo.com/posts/is-white-the-new-green-new-study-from-climatic-change-124</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of cool roofs and cool pavement bouncing more of the sun&#8217;s heat back into space has been around for years. It has long been known that white roofs in Greece and Spain keep buildings cooler &#8211;and help counteract against the urban heat island effect.
Until now, nobody has tried to quantify how much atmospheric [...]


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		<title>Green Collar Jobs on the Rise, says SJI</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roof Info Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July of 2008, the Seattle Jobs Initiative released their Job Trends Report with a spotlight on &#8220;green jobs&#8221;. Estimates predict that investments in the green economy in Washington State could as much as quadruple the number of green jobs by the year 2020. 
The industries which contain many of the blue-collar jobs going green [...]


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<li><a href='http://roofinfo.com/posts/is-white-the-new-green-new-study-from-climatic-change-124' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Is White the New Green? New Study from Climatic Change.'>Is White the New Green? New Study from Climatic Change.</a></li>
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		<title>What IS a Cool Roof? And How to Rank Them</title>
		<link>http://roofinfo.com/posts/what-is-a-cool-roof-and-how-to-rank-them-60</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roof Info Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cool roof can be defined in many ways by people or by different municipal codes. At the end of the day, however, a cool roof reflects and emits the sun&#8217;s heat back skyward without allowing it to pass into the building or home. The more sun it reflects and emits, the cooler the roof. [...]


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		<title>Canadian Roofing Company Walks &amp; Talks Green</title>
		<link>http://roofinfo.com/posts/canadian-roofing-company-walks-talks-green-58</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roof Info Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For citizens of Vancouver BC the beginning of the year brought them a landfill ban from Metro Vancouver Regional District. They were no longer able to dispose of used passenger or truck tires.   
Until  an unimplemented tire recycling plan is in place the tires have no place to go. To help ease [...]


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		<title>Downtown Seattle&#8217;s Premiere Roof Garden</title>
		<link>http://roofinfo.com/posts/a-roof-garden-on-a-seattle-skyscraper-44</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roof Info Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High atop the Washington Mutual Center&#8217;s 17th floor lies a roof garden with awesome views of Seattle and Elliot Bay. The green roof serves as a vital social space and is the civic heart of the bank’s downtown campus.

Rather than meet the City of Seattle’s minimum open space requirements, the garden’s usable area was enlarged [...]


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		<title>Find Roofing Blog Feeds Here</title>
		<link>http://roofinfo.com/posts/find-roofing-blog-feeds-here-43</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roof Info Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding quality bloggers who write about the Roofing Industry is challenging. Quite frankly they are few and far between. In the past few days of searching, I have come across several that were no more than spam efforts of cut and paste jobs from a popular free article site.

In an effort to wade through the [...]


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		<title>Lighten Green Roof Load with Synthetic Soil</title>
		<link>http://roofinfo.com/posts/artificial-lightweight-soil-for-green-roofs-20</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roof Info Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Roofs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese brewer Suntory Ltd. said it had created an alternative to soil to help keep cities green. Applications include soil to cover roofs and walls for greenery — green roofs.

&#8220;This will make it possible to plant greenery on roofs and walls of buildings that have less load capacity,&#8221; said Suntory&#8217;s executive general manager Norio Kanayama.
Suitable [...]


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