Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Green roofs, living roofs, vegetated roofs, ecoroofs — whatever you want to call them, they are sprouting up everywhere lately, including atop residential homes. And with that increase in popularity ...

One of the worst trends in new cars today is the proliferation of glass roofs. We have but one automaker to thank for accelerating the trend, and that’s Tesla. I don’t say this as a diss toward Tesla, ...

Rooftops aren’t just for shingles and solar panels anymore. Increasingly, they’re for the birds, the bees and the trees. Green roofs, which have been common in Europe for more than 40 years, are ...

As climate change helps fuel more severe heat waves, the city is struggling between maintaining its architectural heritage and keeping apartments livable. A view of Paris and its zinc-roofed buildings ...

Study finds the environmental benefits of white and green roofs vary by region By reflecting sunlight away from a building%2C white roofs lower air conditioning use Other research finds white roofs ...

Tesla is quietly sketching out a future where the glass above your head is more than a panoramic sunroof. In a series of ...

John Rayner receives funding from the Australian and Victorian Governments, the City of Melbourne and Melbourne Water and is affiliated with Green Roofs Australasia. He helped to write the 'Growing ...

Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered 'green roofs,' street-level vegetation or solar panels, ...

Lucy Hutyra has received funding from the U.S. federal government and foundations including the World Resources Institute and Burroughs Wellcome Fund for her scholarship on urban climate and ...