by Neelam Mathews - August 30, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

A team of firms won the $300 million project to transform Chennai International by 2010

The Airports Authority of India has chosen plans by a team of architects including Frederic Schwartz Architects, Hargreaves Associates, Gensler, and New Delhi-based Creative Group to expand the Chennai International Airport’s domestic and international terminals. When completed in 2010, the $300 million project will transform Chennai, located in the city formerly known as Madras, into India’s greenest airport.

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by Girl on The Avenue -August 14, 2007 via GreenRoofs.WordPress.Com

Sod roofs are back in style, according to a report in Oregon’s Mail Tribune. The report quotes the aptly-named Edmond Snodgrass, co-author of Green Roof Plants: a resource and planting guide (right), who runs Emory Knoll Farms, the first nursery in the US dedicated solely to the propagation and sale of green roof plants.

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by Girl on The Avenue - August 7, 2007 via GreenRoofs.WordPress.Com

Singapore is no stranger to green roofs. Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities president Geoff Wilson has written extensively on “food from-the-roof” technologies pioneered in Singapore, and vice-President Sidonie Carpenter has documented many Singapore roofs on her Green Roofs Fellowship blog.

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August 6, 2007 via GreenRoofs.WordPress.Com

22 businesses in Alberta, Canada, have teamed up to produce a 3,000-square-foot demonstration project: the Alberta Eco-Roof Initiative, reports Canada.com

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