14. How to make people love roof gardens...

How can we make people LOVE roof gardens?

The "Why to love roof gardens" list:

• 1. 
  It can bring families closer
  Since it needs teamwork to create a roofgarden, the whole family could involve.
• 2. 
  Save money on groceries
  You can start your own vegetable garden,planting tomatoes, peppers and spices. That way you don't need to buy them at the grocery store.
• 3. 
  It makes your roof a pretty sight at your community
  Since it transforms an empty place into a green one you don't have to look now at just concrete.
• 4. 
  You are decreasing your ecological footprint
  We are returning to mother nature a green space that once belonged to her.
• 5. 
  It attracts birds, butterflies and other wild life
  we created a new ecosystem in our own buildings for animals to enjoy.
• 6. 
  Can make you have the "coolest" house on the block! :-)
  You don't just decrease your house inner temperature, but you can have your own little "zoo" and "national park" ;-D And believe us.. that's way cool!

The Real Facts: Our Projects Benefit$$$

• 1. 
  It lowers temperatures inside the building.
  Vegetation helps insulate the area avoiding sunlight to directly heat the rooftop which at the same time diminishes transfer of heat into the building.
• 2. 
  It avoids water to leak trough cracks already on the celling.
  The plants absorb most of the water from the rain and eventually they help to avoid leaks trough the cracks from the classroom ceiling.The vegetation is cost-effective approach to prevent those leaks.
• 3. 
  Re-establishes green areas occupied by the building.
  When there's a structure where once was a place filled with trees and plants it takes away some of the vegetation an so, making a rooftop garden it helps to provide the space that was taken from nature.
• 4. 
  It helps save energy.
  It does save energy!Because the plants on our rooftop garden refreshes the classroom and there's no need to use electric fans or air conditioning.
• 5. 
  Produces an aesthetically pleasing change to a once empty space.
  The plants makes something beautiful and a aesthetically aspect in a empty space it also allows a place of recreation. It would make a good environment for insects and other sort of animals to have a place to call home.
• 6. 
  The garden absorbs water runoff avoiding contamination rivers, watersheds and eventual the oceans.
  Thanks to the garden it absorbs water runoffs avoiding contamination. Because the plants absorb the water from the rain preventing it to go to the street that might be filled with contaminants like gasoline,oil leaks,soap,and other chemicals that could go trough the drains and could contaminate rivers and eventually the ocean.
• 7. 
  A greater change in temperatures inside the experimental classroom can be expected for following months.
  This temperatures were taken on the cooler months of the year, achieving a difference of 2.49F inside experimental classroom. so we can expect that for the hotter summer days a more significant difference could be obtain.
• 8. 
  It's an inexpensive and cost effective approach, making easier to promote the idea to people (the 76 cents Ecosolution)
  Making this rooftop garden was so cost-effective and easily anyone could make it.There's was no need to pay lots of money or hire people to construct it or maintain it.We can do it by ourselves for just 76 cents (USD) per square feet!

Call it our "The 76 cents Eco Solution"!

The Money Talk: How much $$ can we save?