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Get SMART-e
When most people think of a hospital, they picture images of a big, white building filled with bustling doctors and nurses. Clean. Efficient. Organized. Perhaps that once fit the description of the former Cardwell Hospital of Stella, Missouri. But by late 2005, the long since abandoned building was a dilapidated, ghost of a structure with a failing roof, peeling paint, and ruptured, asbestos-laden pipe insulation and floor tiles.
Time and neglect had turned a place of healing into a health hazard. By the next year, the building was gone, and that's when the town got SMART-e.
Over the Top with Green Roof Research in Denver
While the city of Denver, Colorado is famous for its mile-high elevation, employees working in EPA's regional headquarters there are thinking slightly higher. The office building they occupy downtown is topped with a "green roof," some 40,000 plants growing in a network of two-foot by four-foot modular trays. The roof is the focus of a collaborative research project exploring the practicability and environmental benefits of cultivating green roofs in such high, semi-arid climates.
"Even before we moved into the building, we worked with the developer to help design a workspace that that could serve as model for minimizing the environmental footprint of the typical office building found in an urban setting. Our green roof is the most conspicuous—and I think the best—part of that effort," explains EPA regional scientist Patti Tyler, the project manager for the green roof research project.
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