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Environment/Sustainability Fri Apr 30 2010
Green Not Green Impressed (Green)
Blair Kamin has evaluated Mayor Daley's "vaunted" green roof program. He's not impressed.
--They're not all created equal. Media accounts of green roofs in Chicago invariably focus on the sprawling, lushly planted City Hall roof, or Millennium Park (left), which is built over working commuter railroad tracks and outfitted with grass and trees. These are the Rolls-Royces of the genre. More typical is a tiny green roof atop an Aldi supermarket at 4450 N. Broadway Ave., visible from the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line. It resembles a postage stamp. Green roofs, it shows, can comply with the law without adding much beauty to the cityscape.
