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Huge Post Office green roof offers Manhattan views. Photos by Sigal Ben-Shmuel/EKLA
When the sun beats down there will be no tar up on this roof: the U.S. Postal Service created a 2.5 acre oasis in Manhattan this week with a green roof on its Morgan mail processing facility. The garden-like space will help reduce the city‚Äôs heat index and heating/cooling costs, saving 30 percent of the building’s energy usage by 2015 ‚Äì the agency‚Äôs goal. Can’t all buildings have <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/06/green-roofs-are-ch…
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