Green Roof Resource

Yesterday an article in TreeHugger summarized a map put together by Earth2Tech on CleanTech startups. The commentary mentioned that the map focused more on the US and specifically Silicon Valley. Regardless, it does a nice job of categorizing clean technology into renewable energy types, electric cars, and energy storage.

There are a number of clean tech support companies working to enable cleantech startups. Using Mapufacture, I was able to incorporate the data generated by Earth2Tech and add to it to include clean tech support companies. I’ve displayed the map below, and a full scale version with additional information can be accessed here. Any comments or additional information on companies supporting clean tech would be appreciated.

For those interested in learning more about the economic valuation of the environmental benefits of green roofs, Environmental, Science, & Technology released a paper that I co-authored on the topic. “Green Roof Valuation: A Probabilistic Economic Analysis of Environmental Benefits” summarizes the benefits over the lifetime of a green roof taking into account benefits due to energy savings, reduced stormwater fees, and potential savings under market-based valuation of air emissions uptake. This is presented in a probabilistic manner to aid decision-makers when considering a green roof or policies to encourage green roof adoption.