Service stations ideal sites for roof gardens

When Ford, Toyota and BP are doing it, it’s well into the mainstream.

CBS News reports that a Baltimore BP service station plans to save money and start a trend by installing a living roof.

Station manager J. Kent McNew told CBS:

“It sends people a message that private industry can do something to help the problems environmentally.”

The living roof, reports CBS:

is expected to save the station a lot of cash in electric bills which could make other stations green with envy.

The living roof can eliminate up to 65 percent of the annual runoff that would otherwise end up in local sewer systems or the bay.

GRHAC is planning to approach Australian service stations to invest in green roofs, because service stations tend to have large, accommodating roofs particularly suited to green roof technologies. Service stations would also be ideal sites to set up green roof experiments.