{"id":48,"date":"2015-05-20T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-05-21T00:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T04:08:19","slug":"green-blue-roofs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2015\/05\/20\/green-blue-roofs\/","title":{"rendered":"Green &amp; blue roofs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took several students to see the green and blue roofs on the apartment complex next to the campus.\u00a0 Probably the only blue roof in the city, it works like a green roof except without the plants.\u00a0 We are monitoring to see how often the water overflows and ends up in the storm basin below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/blue_roof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/blue_roof-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"blue_roof\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/blue_roof-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/blue_roof.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue roof stores rainwater, but has overflow pipes that return water to a stormwater basin in the parking area of the apartment complex<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/green_roof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/green_roof-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"green_roof\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/green_roof-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2015\/05\/green_roof.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The green roofs are planted with seedum, a commonly used because they are hardy and grow in wet or dry conditions.\u00a0 The green roofs cover the 2-story portions of the apartment complex and the 4-story portions have the blue roofs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took several students to see the green and blue roofs on the apartment complex next to the campus.\u00a0 Probably the only blue roof in the city, it works like a green roof except without the plants.\u00a0 We are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2015\/05\/20\/green-blue-roofs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}