"For all these buildings going up in the mega-cities of the world, everyone's looking for the edge, and productive green spaces are the next level," says Green. "If you could grow baby greens, herbs, seafood and mushrooms on top of a residential building, it would offer a better payback period than the rest of the building".
Productive potential was very high, averaging 120 m3 loose chips (or 42 tonnes of green chips) per productive machine hour.
Britain, in particular, turned into the ultimate buyback nation, with the Bank of England spending trillions to buy back government bonds while corporations bought up their own shares instead of investing in productive, green technologies.
The once barren land has been now converted into highly productive green belt (Figure 10).
We investigated collembolan communities in both extensive and productive green roofs.
Surprisingly, no difference was observed in either taxonomic or functional structures of collembolan diversity between extensive and productive green roofs.
Field water conservation practices are a way to build resilience against drought by increasing productive green water through reducing runoff and evaporation and thereby boosting crop yield.
Green roofs, especially productive ones (e.g. of edible biomass), are urban ecosystems developed in response to the scarcity of arable areas in urban environments.
Therefore, the disconnected fundamental eco-lands within ecological redlining areas at the national scale might be linked together as a conterminous green infrastructure if productive, auxiliary, and daily-life eco-land types located in strategic gap sites can be identified and protected at regional and urban scales.
Scott is passionate about, advising social/environmental change makers in the business world while fostering, mentoring and connecting the next wave of business leaders in a productive green economy.
The Black Elephant has to do with the loss of food security, food safety, balance of payments, and productive "green jobs" we are loosing because as a nation we have chosen to not encourage, educate, or invest in more innovative, more healthy and beneficial food growing systems.
