Could you just imagine if everyone had either a solar tiled roof or a green roof?
Wouldn't it be great if there was a law that said that all commercial rooftops were required to either have a solar or a green roof.
It is possible!
Ask the owners of your local businesses and encourage them that you would appreciate it.
Contact your congressmen and local political leaders.
and hey, while you are at it,
Look into doing it for your own home!
Couldn't you just imagine how different our world would be .. how much more beautiful and ecologically sound it would be?
Have you heard, they now have solar-paneled tiles to cover the current tiles you have:
http://www.planetizen.com/node/24925
According to http://www.seattle.gov/light/solar/, you have an assortment of options: "three-tab solar shingles, flat solar tiles with lap-joints, solar material that comes in rolls and lies between raised-seam metal roof sections, and thin-film solar wafers that go between two panes of glass but allow some light to pass."
Save the bird and bats, when going alternative , go solar instead of wind. here's why:
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba467/
http://www.ncpa.org/prs/cd/2004/020404wpp.htm
or go green: (see some great pictures and ideas)
http://www.hrt.msu.edu/faculty/Rowe/Green_roof.htm
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/902/
but if you do go green, even though the Green Roof Tiles made by Toyota Roof Garden look easy and simple to put on your roof, please be aware of the ecological consequences of it.
please oh please,
make sure you go with NATIVE plants "specifically designed to support local bird and insect populations," like the idea behind the new Bio-Tops in Japan
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof (see disadvantages))
or something like the green roof being done in Egypt mentioned in same article
and while we are having hope for the future world:
check out the compressed air car with a rotary engine by Angelo Di Pietro in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq8aZVLpf-c&mode=related&search=
which i like much better than the midi car in http://www.theaircar.com/
how to go green designing a container home,
it's more sustainable and healthy for environment than going with concrete, plastic, or wood
http://jetsongreen.typepad.com/jetson_green/container_architecture/index.html
