{"id":2031,"date":"2016-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-792\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:58:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:58:18","slug":"innovation-anthology-792","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/06\/28\/innovation-anthology-792\/","title":{"rendered":"#792: Native Roofs:  Energy Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/1-Innovation Anthology 792.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The push to green our economy as a way to fight climate change is opening doors for new companies like Native Roofs of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>This company designs green roofs for both residential and commercial buildings.<\/p>\n<p>That means picking out plants instead of shingles for the rooftop. <\/p>\n<p>Alex Court is the Operations and Marketing Manager for Native Roofs. &nbsp;<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>ALEX  COURT: &nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">One of the big benefits of the green roof is &nbsp;improving your  energy efficiency. &nbsp;So we have a green roof on our offices and we were  able to do a before and after green roof case. &nbsp;And we were able to see  that &nbsp;there was continued energy efficiency throughout the year. &nbsp;In our  case we were saving about 3600 dollars a year in electricity. &nbsp; But we  looked also at the cost of roof replacement. &nbsp;A traditional roof would  need to be replaced every 15 to 17 years, but the green roof actually  extends the lifespan of the roof to about 40 years. &nbsp;So that combined  with energy savings you would pay off the cost of the initial  installation and the ongoing maintenance associated with a green roof in  about 15 years. &nbsp;<br \/><\/span><br \/>Alex Court says the two main considerations for adding a green roof are structural strength of the building, and  developing a maintenance plan.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Learn more at Innovation Anthology.com<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-06-28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Court of Native Roofs in Calgary says green roofs can save a lot on electricity and energy loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16Alex_Court.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5450,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/5450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}