If you’ve got kids who like Star Wars and a household goal of going organic, then Grocery Store Wars might be a fun video for the whole family.
While not completely informative in nature regarding organics, it does cover some basic points that kids should be able to grasp, which can open up the family forum [...]

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Grocery Store Wars – the Organic Force

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Inhabitat shares a great set of stories on Alive Structures: a Brooklyn based green roofing collective. Together, with the most creative native gardeners in the city, Alive Structures will be giving tours of their rooftop gardens at NYC wildflower week. All those in the greater New York area make sure to stop by to explore this exciting dimension of the greening of cities.

City roof gardens create a nice natural habitat for pollinators and migrating species, and additionally “they provide open green spaces for property owners and the public to enjoy.” Green roofs are known to improve air and water quality, lessen storm-water runoff, lower building energy consumption, and reduce urban heat island affect.

Green roofs are constructed as a series of layers including:

• a waterproof membrane
• a root barrier
• drainage mat
• an erosion control fabric
• lightweight engineered soil, and vegetation.

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Although it has many opponents even among green technology sustainers, the good-old battery still evolves to help us have those all-electric vehicles beneath us, and make us drive cleaner and faster than ever.

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