Archive for January, 2013

Beijing: Potential For A Green (Roof) Revolution
January 22nd, 2013

Via China Dialogue, a report on the possibilities presented by Beijing’s 90 million square meters of potential green roof space, which could provide food, reduce air pollution and cool the city during hot summers: Beijing’s population has grown rapidly over the last 20 years and with construction under way on hundreds of kilometres of subway, […]

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Islands In The Sky
January 22nd, 2013

Via Outside Magazine, interesting comments from the New York director of The Nature Conservancy who sees 14,000 acres of rooftops in his city that could be used for everything from generating electricity to restoring nature:   An example of a green roof in Victoria, British Columbia. Photo: pnwra/Flickr   Green roofs are about restoring nature […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
As potential uses for building and parking lot roofspace continue to grow, unique opportunities to understand and profit from this trend will emerge. Roof Options is committed to tracking the evolving uses of roof estate – spanning solar power, rainwater harvesting, wind power, gardens & farms, “cooling” sites, advertising, apiculture, and telecom transmission platforms – to help unlock the nascent, complex, and expanding roofspace asset class.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has held a lifelong interest in environmental and conservation issues, primarily as they relate to freshwater scarcity, renewable energy, and national park policy. Working from a water-scarce base in Las Vegas with his wife and son, he is the founder of Water Politics, an organization dedicated to the identification and analysis of geopolitical water issues arising from the world’s growing and vast water deficits, and is also a co-founder of SmartMarkets, an eco-preneurial venture that applies web 2.0 technology and online social networking innovations to motivate energy & water conservation. He previously worked for an independent power producer in Central Asia; co-authored an article appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, titled: “The Water Ethic: The Inexorable Birth Of A Certain Alienable Right”; and authored an article appearing in the inaugural issue of Johns Hopkins University's Global Water Magazine in July 2010 titled: “H2Own: The Water Ethic and an Equitable Market for the Exchange of Individual Water Efficiency Credits.”