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We're designing it for the tropics, so all of the roofs are maximized to harvest solar power and to shade from the sun.
Cool roofs are highly-reflective surfaces that don't absorb solar heat, and pass it on to the building or atmosphere.
Green roofs are soil and living plants.
When times are hard, people have to do things for themselves, and right across the world, Oxford, Omaha, Omsk, you can see an extraordinary explosion of urban farming, people taking over land, taking over roofs, turning barges into temporary farms.
What if we imagined the Upper East Side with green roofs, and streams winding through the city, and windmills supplying the power we need?
Green roofs.
We're going to look at comparisons of things in the poorest group: beds, roofs, cooking.
At the end of the harvest, the Bozo take the leftover rice straw and they mix it with mud to reinforce their roofs and the village mosque.
There's massive P.V. arrays on the roofs as well as wind turbines.
But the sun provides abundant energy to our roofs and facades.
Here, the roofs are not designed to bear additionally heavy loads.
For roofs, silicon solar cells will often continue to be a good solution.
The individual band members go their separate ways and uncomfortably settle into lackluster middle age in the dull and uneventful 90's: morose keyboardist Stephen Rea winds up penniless and down on his luck, vain, neurotic, pretentious lead singer Bill Nighy tries (and fails) to pursue a floundering solo career, paranoid drummer Timothy Spall resides in obscurity on a remote farm so he can avoid paying a hefty back taxes debt, and surly bass player Jimmy Nail installs roofs for a living.
But instead of making him a Kung-Fu student, the Master instead orders him to build a scaffolding to cover the roofs of all 36 chambers.
In fact, this is one of the pinnacles of cinematic poetry, up there with some of the seminal works of 1930s art cinema, in the same prestigious group as Under the Roofs of Paris, Tabu, Olympia, and even L'Atalante.
Great use of Chicago locations, though the "L" trains running past my house don't appear to have the conveniently flat roofs to jump on.
Obviously he survives near-impossible odds, be it falling through lift shafts, jumping off of exploding roofs and such and such, but he's no invincible Schwarzenegger type, and that's what makes him more likable and it's what gives the film real tension.
They use a laptops to hack from the top of the buildings, from the roofs, from the subways - because the laptop is such a powerful tool (in movies hackers almost always use laptops) - this device is meant to display "ACCESS GRANTED"!
Why would Russell Crow risk his life jumping over roofs just trying to get to the train?
It seemed as if the director thought: OK, here is an open scene of some roofs, why don't we add some sex here?
For example, simply changing the color of roofs in warm climates to reflect sunlight or planting trees around houses can lead to great savings on energy used for air conditioning.
To some, green growth evokes a countryside covered with windmills and urban roofs lined with solar panels.
Other methods of geoengineering – that is, consciously manipulating the climate – include painting the roofs of houses white in order to increase the reflection of sunlight, covering deserts with reflective plastic, and fertilizing the seas with iron in order to increase the absorption of CO2.
The facilities in nearby Maselleh and Katherie had cracked walls, leaky roofs, and so few cupboards that supplies like syringes and medical registers had to be stacked on the floor.
Similarly, in Ahmedabad, a city of over seven million people in Western India, authorities have launched a major initiative to cover roofs in reflective paint to lower temperatures on “heat islands,” urban areas that trap the sun’s warmth and make city living unbearable, even at night.
Designed as a local symbol of mourning, these poles, with their sharply angled roofs, remind viewers either of a peasant cross or a human figure with hands raised in prayer.
But other solutions – including installation of solar panels to power cooling systems, and wider use of “green” roofs to help deflect heat – would be easier to scale up.
In Chinese “sponge cities” such as Shenzhen, rain gardens, together with green roofs and artificial wetlands, are already being used to manage storm water, aided by permeable paving materials that allow water to filter through to the substrate.
Ideologies of privatization that incapacitate effective government, permitting the privileged to save themselves while leaving the poor clinging to roofs, must now be challenged.
Feeding Myanmar’s RefugeesCOX’S BAZAR – The Rohingya refugee camp in the Bangladeshi port city of Cox’s Bazar is a sea of metal roofs as far as the eye can see, shimmering under an unrelenting sun.
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