Green Walls at the Solar Decathlon

We already blogged the winners of last week's Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC on our front page. However, I just wanted to take a second to point everyone towards a very interesting and very related post over at EcoGeek. The post is "Green Roofs? How About Green Walls!"

EcoGeek offers links to a number of Solar Decathlon teams that incorporated green walls into their contest entry houses, and he argues that green walls might be the next big green thing because of the insulation potential and their ability to mitigate stormwater runoff.

Check it out!


Reminds me

of the classic ivy covered brick walls of academe, completely updated.


Living walls

Trippy, and fantastic-- perfect for halloween. Ellen has written a few posts (with photos) also-- see http://www.sustainabuild.net/search?q=%22living+walls%22 

- maxmsf