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Chicago Center for Green Technology
A model for the nation. Chicago Green Tech is only the third building in the United States to be designed according to the LEED rating system using the highest standards of green technology available. It is the only one of the three that is a renovation of an existing building and the only one accessible by public transportation.

Home to organizations and businesses committed to the environment. Tenants who occupy Chicago Green Tech provide environmental products and services. Greencorps Chicago, the city's community gardening and job training program and WRD Environmental, an urban landscape company, all have offices at Chicago Green Tech.

A place to learn. Chicago Green Tech's building and campus are open for visitors to explore and to learn how green buildings are good for people and good for the environment. Visitors leave knowing how to incorporate environmentally friendly, cost saving features into their home or business.
www.cityofchicago.org


Green Roofs For Healthy Cities


Green Roofs.com
Our Goal is to inform, promote and inspire the earth friendly technology of organic greenroof architecturethrough the interchange of ideas, projects, news, video, travel, research, organization and government updates, marketing opportunities and exclusive features via our website. We recognize that each reader, project, and perspective is unique.

Our Mission is to facilitate information, and as “The Greenroof Industry Resource Portal,” Greenroofs.com serves an important role as the information database and clearinghouse for the greenroof movement worldwide.
www.greenroofs.com


American Society of Landscape Architects
A green roof replaces traditional roofing with a lightweight, living system of soil, compost, and plants. It creates a thin, green skin atop a building that gives a little something back to the world.

The plants – and the dirt and gravel that hold them – filter rainwater and some of its pollutants. The plants produce oxygen that help clean the air. A green roof reduces a building's heating and cooling costs, acting as a form of insulation. And they lessen the heat island effect, in which buildings warm up so much that they heat the surroundings.
www.asla.org/greenroofeducation/