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Tag: Green Roofs

  • Thursday, May 7, 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Eastern – Green Roofs on Campus: Living Infrastructure for Climate Actions, Learning, and Legacy, Online

    As institutions of higher education accelerate climate commitments, campus landscapes are increasingly called upon to perform as living infrastructure. This Climate Week–themed webinar on May 7 at noon explores how green roofs can advance sustainability goals while enriching campus life, operations, and learning through three university case studies: Harvard Business School, Northeastern University, and North Shore Community College. Designed for campus sustainability directors and facilities managers, the session examines how green roofs deliver measurable benefits—from stormwater management and urban heat reduction to biodiversity, wellness, and experiential learning. Speakers will share design strategies, maintenance realities, and performance outcomes across diverse campus contexts, including how these projects support institutional reporting and benchmarking frameworks such as AASHE STARS.

    ​Presented by Recover Green Roofs during Boston Climate Week, this webinar recognizes the unique role higher education leaders play in shaping not only resilient campuses, but also the next generation of environmental stewards—demonstrating how today’s infrastructure decisions can become tomorrow’s teaching tools.

    Register at https://luma.com/azdr6lbj. Recover Green Roofs is a design-build firm specializing in the design, installation, and maintenance of green roofs, including rooftop gardens, farms, and amenity spaces. Recover has designed and built residential, commercial, and institutional buildings across New England and beyond for over a decade, emphasizing the stacking benefits that a green roof provides to its community, local ecosystems, and the environment at large. We strive to create long-lasting, thriving green roofs that aid in recovering nature in our built environment in order to support healthier communities and more resilient cities. For more information, visit www.recovergreenroofs.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

    ​By registering for this event, you agree to share your registration information with the organizers of Boston Climate Week

  • Wednesday, March 12, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Eastern – Greening Public Spaces: The Green Roof Bus Shelter Project, Online

    Join The Native Plant Trust and Trevor Smith, Design and Education Manager at Weston Nurseries, and past president of the Ecological Landscape Alliance, to learn more about his efforts to build thirty green roofs for bus shelters throughout the city of Boston, in conjunction with Mayor Michelle Wu’s commitment to green infrastructure. In addition to describing the history of this project and the process of building a green roof, Trevor will share the insights he has gained while pursuing this work. The talk will take place on Zoom on March 12 at 6 pm Eastern, and is $17 for NPT members, $20 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/greening-public-spaces-the-green-roof-bus-shelter-project/

    A recording of this class will be available to all registrants for two weeks after the class.

  • Friday, May 29, 10:30 am – 1;30 PM – Our Future with Water: Stormwater Management Strategies Webinar

    Based on decades of experience, this Native Plan Trust stormwater management guide will address rain harvesting, permeable pavements, green roofs, bioswales and rain gardens, and tree planting. You will learn simple methods to capture and reuse stormwater and to slow stormwater runoff for the healthiest plants and landscapes. This May 29 class at 10:30 – 1:30 is now offered as a live webinar, led by Trevor Smith. $45 for NPT members, $54 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/our-future-water-stormwater-management-strategies/

  • Friday, July 21, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Green Garden Infrastructure Webinar

    New England Wild Flower Society online webinars are a great way to learn something new. On July 21 at 1 pm, Anna Fialkoff will talk about Green Garden Infrastructure. Green infrastructure is the backbone of an environmentally responsible garden. Learn how to incorporate low-cost and low-tech solutions for managing stormwater, harvesting rainwater,and reducing excess heat and pollution. Anna Fialkoff will introduce you to rain gardens, green roofs, permeable paving, and other landscape elements you can build without the help of an engineer or landscape architect. $10 for NEWFS members, $13 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.newfs.org/learn/our-programs/live-webinar-green-garden-infrastructure.

  • Wednesday, May 13, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Why Green Roofs?

    Green roofs have a wide array of benefits ranging from environmental to social to economic. Learn from Mark Winterer of Recover Green Roofs how to make buildings last longer and reduce long-term costs through green roofs. This Tower Hill Botanic Garden lecture will take place Wednesday, May 13 from 7 – 8, and is free with admission to the garden.

    Recover Green Roofs, LLC is a Design/Build/Maintenance firm specializing in vegetated roofs, rooftop farms, and living walls. Recover designed and installed a practical and efficient rooftop farm for the Whole Foods Market in Lynnfield, which supplies the market with thousands of pounds of hyper-local produce each year. Mark is an accredited Green Roof Professional (GRP), a licensed General Contractor, and Recover’s co-owner and Director of Operations.

  • Wednesday, April 1, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Green Roofs and Living Walls

    Living roofs and walls are popping up everywhere, in social media, magazines, and in our cities. What are they? How do they work? Can you have one? Landscape designer Trevor Smith will explain it all: the pros and cons of the different systems on the market, his successes and failures, and the steps you must follow to take your garden to new heights. The lecture takes place at Garden in the Woods, Hemenway Road in Framingham, on Wednesday, April 1, from 6:30 – 7:30 and is co-sponsored by the New England Wild Flower Society and the Ecological Landscape Alliance. $20 for members of sponsoring organizations, $25 for nonmembers. Register online at http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn/our-programs/green-roofs-and-living-walls.  Image from www.houzz.com.

  • Wednesday, November 11, 10:00 am – Low Impact Landscaping

    The November meeting of The Garden Club of the Back Bay will take place Wednesday, November 11, beginning at 10:00 am at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.  We welcome  Paul Marquis, who will speak on  Low Impact Landscaping.  Paul Marquis, of Green Home Solutions in Arlington, MA and former “Green House Doctor” for The Green Roundtable, will be our guest speaker for the November meeting.

    The objective of this talk is to introduce concepts of resource-conserving and environmentally-friendly landscape design and maintenance practices. Conventional residential landscapes are often resource-intensive, and some of the maintenance products and practices typically employed have been associated with adverse long-term health consequences and environmental impact. Topics covered will include low-water landscaping or xeriscaping, rainwater collection and use, advantages of using native plants, more-effective storm water management, and organic turf and landscape management practices. The talk will include a brief discussion of Low Impact Development, green roofs, and “hardscaping” options.

    The Green Roundtable, Inc. (GRT) is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to mainstream green building and sustainable design and become obsolete.  It works toward this goal by promoting and supporting healthy and environmentally integrated building projects through strategic outreach, education, policy advocacy and technical assistance.  The Green Roundtable envisions a world in which green building is business as usual. For more information on The Green Roundtable, log on to www.greenroundtable.org.

    Reservations are required for this meeting, which will be followed by an optional luncheon with our speaker ($20) at The College Club.  The public is invited.  For more information, and to register, email info@bostonflora.com. Club members will receive written notice of this meeting with a response slip.

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  • Saturday, September 26, 10 – 12 – Green Roofs: A Climate Solution

    The Cambridge Center for Adult Education offers a seminar in Green Roofs on Saturday, September 26, from 10 – noon.  Green roofs are an inspiring and intelligent solution to environmental problems. By installing vegetation on rooftops, we can enjoy many social and economic benefits for property owners and society as a whole. These include absorbing storm water, reducing building energy costs, improving air quality, extending the service life of roofs, and creating new green space. Apex Green Roofs, a local design/build company, will give an overview of these benefits, design considerations and case studies. We will have a model on hand that shows the different layers of a green roof system. Limited to 16.
    For homeowners and general public Sec. 01: 1 Saturday, 10:00 am-12:00 noon. Sep. 26, 56 Brattle St. | $44
    Course Code: ROOF–1
    Price:44.00

    To register, log on to www.ccae.org.

  • Friday and Saturday, August 21 & 22 – Boston GreenFest 2009

    Boston GreenFest 2009 will be held on Friday and Saturday, August 21 and 22, at Boston City Hall Plaza.  Global warming affects not only our planet, but our personal lives.  What does this mean for us?  How can we work together in our neighborhoods to change the future now?  Come have fun!  Learn and share new technologies and ideas that can immediately change our daily lives and help our planet at the same time.  Bring the family, friends and neighbors to the FREE Boston GreenFest 2009.  Wear green.

    There will be the One Gallon Challenge – a race from Greenfield to GreenFest.  On display will be a group of cars you’ve never seen before.  On Thursday, August 20, they will have “raced” 100 miles from Greenfield, MA to the festival on the energy of one gallon of gas.  The Museum of Science is offering reduced rates to visit the Museum for everyone who attends Boston GreenFest.  There will be Solar Energy Workshops, kids activities, the Boston Community Choir, the Nathan Hale Elementary School Choir, Ruff Ruffman from WGBH’s FETCH, Project Recycled Runway featuring Sam Mendoza and Sparklle (sic) Thames.  Meet Miss Earth Massachusetts (and not the former Miss California!), hear Jeff Wolfe, groSolar talk about the future of solar energy, and see a Kung Fu and Tai Chi demo by Yang’s Martial Arts Academy of Boston.  Walk through the amazing Time Tunnel, join a community greentable discussion, attend a Green Business Breakfast, attend Green Training Seminars, and see the Inconvenient Truth Slideshow Presentations in Spanish and English.  Play GEO (Green Earth Olympics), and enjoy Valet Bike Parking.  There will be Green Roofs and Living Walls, Organic Gardens, retrofit seminars, community initiative information, compost lessons, and much, much more.  For additional information log on to www.bostongreenfest.org.