ConEd Goes Green Roof on Long Island City Learning Center
photo: Con Edison
TreeHugger is all about green roofs on buildings—even taking part in building one—and can’t say enough good things about the virtues of energy efficiency and energy conservation. So when Con Edison announced that it installed its first green roof, in an effort to conserve energy and improve air quality, it immediately elicited a big thumbs up from me. Here’s the details:
Cooling Costs, Stormwater Runoff Reduced
Installed on the quarter-acre rooftop of ConEd’s Learning Center in Long Island City, th…