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Toronto becomes first city to mandate green roofs
Toronto is the first city in North America with a bylaw that requires roofs to be green. And we’re not talking about paint. A green roof, also known as a living roof, uses various hardy plants to create a barrier between the sun’s rays and the tiles or shingles of the roof. The plants love the sun, and the building (and its inhabitants) enjoy more comfortable indoor temperatures as a result.Toronto’s new legislation will require all residential, commercial and institutional buildings over 2,000 square meters to have between 20 and 60 percent living roofs. Although it’s been in place since early 2010, the bylaw will apply to new industrial development as of April 30, 2012. While this is the first city-wide mandate involving green roofs, Toronto’s decision follow’s in the footsteps of other cities, like Chicago and New York.
Under the direction of Mayor Richard Daley the city of Chicago put a 38,800 square foot green roof on a 12 story skyscraper in 2000. Twelve years later, that building now saves $5000 annually on utility bills, and Chicago boasts 7 million square feet of green roof space. New York has followed suit, and since planting a green roof on the Con Edison Learning Centre in Queens, the buildings managers have seen a 34 percent reduction of heat loss in winter, and reduced summer heat gain by 84 percent.
But lower utility bills aren’t the only benefit of planting a living roof. In addition to cooling down the city, green roofs create cleaner air, cleaner water, and provide a peaceful oasis for people, birds and insects in an otherwise polluted, concrete and asphalt-covered environment.
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Please we are looking at it together.Your own consciousness.Which is you.Fear.And with it naturally goes hatred.Where there is fear there must be violence.Aggression.The tremendous urge to succeed.Both in the physical as well as in the psychological world.Fear has many factors, which we’ll go into when we are talking about fear.And the constant pursuit of pleasure.Pleasure of possession.Pleasure of domination.Pleasure of money, which gives power.The pleasure of a philosopher with his immense knowledge.The guru with his circus.Pleasure again has innumerable forms.And there is also.Sorrow.Pain.Anxiety.The deep sense of abiding.Endless sense of loneliness.And not only the so-called personal sorrow.But also the enormous sorrow of mankind has brought about through wars.Through neglect.Through this endless sense of conquering one group of people by another.And in that consciousness there is the racial group content.And ultimately there is death.This is our consciousness.Beliefs.Certainties.And uncertainties.Great sense of anxiety.Loneliness.Sorrow.And endless misery.This is a fact.And we say this consciousness.IS MINE.Is that so?Go to the Far East or the other east,India, American, Europe.Anywhere you go where human beings are.They suffer.They’re anxious.Lonely.Depressed.Melancholy.Struggling conflict.Same like you.Similar like you.So is your consciousness from the other?I know it’s very difficult.Maybe to logically accept.Which is intellectual verbally say yes.That is so.Maybe.But to feel this total human sense that there is no humanity except you.You are the rest of mankind.That requires great deal of sensitivity.It’s not a problem to be solved.It isn’t that, ‘I must accept that I’m not an individual.And how am I to feel this global human entity?’Then you’ve made it into a problem.And the brain is ready to solve the problem.Do this.Don’t do that.Go to a guru.You know all the circus that goes on.But if you really look at it.With your mind.With your heart.With you whole being.Totally aware of this fact.Then you have broken the program.See.It is naturally broken.But if you say ‘I will break it’.You are getting back in the same.I wonder if you understand.Shall I go over ii again?.Is it necessary for the speak to repeat.But please don’t accept this because the speaker feels this.To him this is utter reality.Not something verbally accepted.Because it’s pleasant.But it is something that is actual.Then if that is so.Which is logically.Reasonably.Sanely examine and you’ll see.It is so. But the brain which has been accustomed to.This program of the individuality is going to revolt.Which you are doing now.Which is the brain is unwilling to learn.Where as the computer is willing to learn.Here we are frightening of losing something.And if you don’t understand this.We’ll go over and over again.But a serious person confronting the world situation.The world catastrophe.The terror.The atom bomb.The endless competition between nations.That is destroying human beings.It’s destroying us.Each one.And the decision comes.When you perceive the truth that you are not an individual.
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(Source: allesistverbunden, via oracorey)
