{"id":2034,"date":"2016-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-793\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:58:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T19:58:01","slug":"innovation-anthology-793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/06\/30\/innovation-anthology-793\/","title":{"rendered":"#793: Native Roofs:  Storm Water Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 793.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to environmental design, Alex Court is one of the  first people who will suggest adding a green roof to your new home or  office tower.<\/p>\n<p>Alex is the Operations and Marketing Manager at Native Roofs in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>This company uses native plants to garner the environmental benefits from putting a garden on your roof rather than shingles.<\/p>\n<p>Along with energy savings, green roofs can also help with urban storm water management.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ALEX  COURT.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">:This morning we had quite a lot of rain and in that kind of  circumstance a green roof would actually be absorbing about 70 to 90  percent of the water that&rsquo;s falling on it. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s really great for the  city because when green roofs are implemented widely, then it can become  part of their water management system. &nbsp;And so when you look at the  value derived from storm water management, improved air quality,  beautification, then you&rsquo;ve got a whole range of public benefits from  green roofs. There&rsquo;s a few studies out but I&rsquo;ve read that green roofs  can bring about 38 dollars per square foot in public benefits. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According  to Alex Court, using native plant species on roofs increases  biodiversity in urban areas and offers island of habitat for birds and  insects.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>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>\u00a02016-06-30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Court of Native Roofs in Calgary says green roofs with plants can absorb water and help in storm water management in urban areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","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\/1-16Alex_Court.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5449,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/5449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}