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Day: October 20, 2010

The Green Roof at SF’s Academy of Sciences

Rebecca Sweet | Posted on October 20, 2010 |

No, this isn’t a scene from Teletubbies.   Last night I attended an APLD meeting in San Francisco to listen to Alan Good, the Academy’s Landscape Exhibit Supervisor, give a fascinating presentation about the building’s green-roof infrastructure and its plant life.   While I found the specific construction of the roof interesting, it was the […]

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