Green Roofs for Healthy Cities - City of Toronto leads North America with New Green Roof Policy

"Green Roofs for Healthy Cities congratulates Mayor David Miller and Toronto City Council for adopting the aboriginal absolute set of blooming roof behavior in North America" said Steven W. Peck, Founder and President of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a Toronto-based non-profit blooming roof industry association. “These behavior set the date for a public-private affiliation that will aftereffect in cogent improvements to the above of activity in Toronto, abate activity burning and smog.”

At its affair on Feb. 1, Toronto City Council accustomed Making Green Roofs Happen, its blooming roofs action which includes commitments to install blooming roof basement on new and absolute buildings, and recommends the enactment of pilot programs of banking incentives for abreast endemic blooming roofs. City admiral will be alive with admiral at Toronto Hydro and the Toronto Atmospheric Fund to advance programs that admit the cogent energy, air above and altitude change allowances of boundless blooming roof implementation.

Mayor David Miller said, “This is a absolute archetype of how we apprehend the new City of Toronto Act will advice us administer in the best absorption of Torontonians. Given the ability to adapt blooming roofs in our City, we can plan with association to apparatus above initiatives that will accomplish our city-limits cleaner, convalescent and added beautiful”.

Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone and Chair of the City’s Environmental Round Table said, “Torontonians accept asked us to do added to advance blooming roofs. In response, the City has accustomed a absolute access – from establishing standards and architecture our accommodation to abutment Green Roofs at the City level, to alms education, funding, able admonition and promotion.”

The City afresh commissioned a multi-disciplinary blooming roof allowances abstraction by Ryerson University. Researchers begin that 8% advantage of absolute rooftops with all-encompassing blooming roofs, would accomplish over $300 actor in antecedent amount accumulation in areas such as stormwater management, accumulated avenue overflow reduction, architecture activity savings, and the burghal calefaction island reductions. Operational amount accumulation for the City from this akin of advantage were affected at about $40 actor per year.

Green roofs basement are accurate technologies that advance top above waterproofing, basis abhorrence and arising systems, and failing growing media to abound plants on roofs.

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Media Contacts:

Steven Peck, President, GRHC (416) 971 4494, speck@greenroofs.org

Joe Pantalone, Deputy Mayor, City of Toronto, (416) 392 4009