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• Former mayor Powers gets last laugh on rooftop gardens

  August 2, 2009 in Features on Page D1 John Powers, former mayor of Spokane, lives in a Seattle building with a rooftop garden so massive that residents take walks in it. “We have pine trees on this thing,” … 3

• Golf course building topped with grasses, wildflowers

  July 7, 2009 in City, Idaho on Page A1 WORLEY, Idaho – When the wind blows at Circling Raven Golf Course, it rustles through prairie grasses growing on the roof of the Stensgar Pavilion. This bit of man-made habitat …

• Green-roof technology

  February 15, 2009 in Features on Page D3 Five generations of the Snodgrass family have prospered at Emory Knoll Farms in Harford County, Maryland. Its 365 acres have evolved from a 19th-century dairy operation to a crop farm …