Blog Posts By Month: January, 2012

San Diego's Top Influentials Named

Last week we reported that our very own Jim Mumford was recognized as an Eco Entrepreneur by the San Diego Daily Transcript, but what we didn't tell you is that he was also named One of San Diego's Top Influentials for 2012.
 

The San Diego Daily Transcript reports that over 300 nominations were received and they selected 50 finalists for this honor, including Jim. Among this list are Irene Stillings from the California Center for Sustainable Energy, Don Rosenberg of Qualcomm, and Chris Cramer of Karl Strauss Brewing to name a few. Jim is honored to be in such great company and to have been selected.  Congratulations Jim!
 

Click Here to see the full list of Influentials. 
 

Jim Mumford Named Eco Entrepreneur

We are excited and honored to report our very own Jim Mumford has been recognized as an Eco Entrepreneur by the San Diego Daily Transcript. This is honor was given for his sustainability work in the community. The article shares Jim's journey into Green Roofs and Living Walls and highlights some of our favorite projects. It is thrilling to see how sustainable buildings and especially living walls and green roofs are becoming part of the built environment. 
 

Click Here to read the full story.

What is Growing at the O'Hare Airport?

Next time you fly into Chicago O’Hare be sure to look out the window. And when you do, instead of seeing a span of gray and white rooftops you will see an amazing array of greens, browns, and oranges covering over 230,000 square feet of rooftops (with an additional 126,000 square feet in the works).

The O’Hare and Midway Airport encourages the installation of vegetated roofs in an effort to reduce the urban heat island effect, conserve energy, and reduce stormwater runoff and noise.  Today, 12 green roofs can be seen from the air with sizes ranging from small roofs of 917 square feet to the largest roof to date of 174,442 square feet located on the ORD FedEx Main Sort Building. 

The FedEx green roof is approximately the same size as 3 football fields, is the second largest contiguous vegetated roof at any airport in the world (behind Frankfort Germany) and is and the largest vegetated roof on a free standing building in the greater Chicago area. In addition, the FedEx Main Sort Building is LEED gold-certified.

To learn more about O’Hare’s green roofs and other sustainability projects, download their 2011 Sustainability Report.
 

To learn more about the FedEx green roof, check out a news story from earlier this year from Chicago News 7.