Sunday Driving: Greening our Rooftops
From the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to City Hall in Chicago
Photo: Edmund C. Snodgrass
Green roofs go a long way toward helping to create
a more sustainable world. While it may seem an unusual building
technique, green roofs go back as far as 600 B.C. to the hanging gardens
of Babylon in Iraq, built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife, Queen
Amyitis, who longed for the tropical gardens of her Persian homeland...