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Mondsegel, 2008. Oil on linen, 80 x 83”.
Wagenburg, 2008. Oil on canvas, 23.5 x 31.5”.
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Toronto becomes first city to mandate green roofs
Toronto is the first city in North America with a bylaw that requires roofs to be green. And we’re not talking about paint. A green roof, also known as a living roof, uses various hardy plants to create a barrier between the sun’s rays and the tiles or shingles of the roof. The plants love the sun, and the building (and its inhabitants) enjoy more comfortable indoor temperatures as a result.
Toronto’s new legislation will require all residential, commercial and institutional buildings over 2,000 square meters to have between 20 and 60 percent living roofs. Although it’s been in place since early 2010, the bylaw will apply to new industrial development as of April 30, 2012. While this is the first city-wide mandate involving green roofs, Toronto’s decision follow’s in the footsteps of other cities, like Chicago and New York.
Under the direction of Mayor Richard Daley the city of Chicago put a 38,800 square foot green roof on a 12 story skyscraper in 2000. Twelve years later, that building now saves $5000 annually on utility bills, and Chicago boasts 7 million square feet of green roof space. New York has followed suit, and since planting a green roof on the Con Edison Learning Centre in Queens, the buildings managers have seen a 34 percent reduction of heat loss in winter, and reduced summer heat gain by 84 percent.
But lower utility bills aren’t the only benefit of planting a living roof. In addition to cooling down the city, green roofs create cleaner air, cleaner water, and provide a peaceful oasis for people, birds and insects in an otherwise polluted, concrete and asphalt-covered environment.
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Gonna use this month to hone my brush & ink skills.
Microraptor and Flashy Feathers
by Sid Perkins
The pigeon-sized dinosaur Microraptor, which lived about 120 million years ago, probably sported glossy black plumage like today’s crows, a new analysis suggests. Detailed analyses of a fossil (inset) unearthed in northeastern China reveal that the creature’s feathers would have been densely packed with pigment-bearing structures called melanosomes.
The long, narrow shape of those melanosomes, as well as their arrangement in sheetlike arrays, indicates that the feathers would have been black and weakly iridescent, the researchers report in the 9 March issue of Science. Although other pigments could have been present in Microraptor’s feathers, they would have been largely masked by black pigments, rendering the creature crowlike in appearance (main image) except for that long, bony tail and lengthy feathers on its legs.
Previous studies of other Microraptor fossils, citing the presence of a large, bony ring within the creature’s eye, suggested that the species was nocturnal. But the new study hints that the creature was active in the daytime, because no extant birds with glossy black plumage are active at night. Perhaps Microraptor was active during dawn and dusk, the researchers say—a lifestyle that would require large eyes yet also provide opportunity for daytime activity for which iridescent plumage could be used to identify fellow members of its species and signal to potential mates.
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Title: ‘South Molle Coral Sub’ on Hardy Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, 1989
Location: Hardy Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland; -19.746975,149.207542
Date: October 1989
Creator: Gale, Ron
Accession number: 7435
View related images: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/comp/279
Collection reference: 7435 Ron and Ngaire Gale Collection
View finding aid: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/eadarc/7012
Is part of: Picture Queensland ~ State Library of Queensland : digital image collection ~ Ron and Ngaire Gale Collection
Digital format: image/jpeg
Original format: transparency : col. slide
Publisher: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Former digital ID: picqld-2003-03-12-10-33
Image number: 910-08-10
Rights: Copyright Library Board of Queensland. For further information http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/home/copyright
Source: Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
Subject: coral reefs
boats
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Hardy Reef (Great Barrier Reef, Qld.)
