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| | City Launches Green Roof Grants Program | |
| | Announcement of 20 $5,000 grants to help city residents and small businesses finance the planning and installation of green roofs. | |
| | Green Roof Basics | |
| | In the simplest terms, a green roof is plants on top of a roof | |
| | Green Roof Test Plots | |
| | As part of its ongoing interest in, and commitment to, green roof technology, the (DOE) hired a consultant to carry out an experimental program that compared temperature and stormwater runoff characteristics of green roofs to conventional roofs
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| | Green Roof Grants Program | |
| | The 2005 Green Roof Grants Program helped realize more than 20 green roof projects throughout Chicago | |
| | Green Roofs Open to the Public | |
| | As of October, 2006, there are more than 250 public and private green roofs totaling more than 1 million square feet that are under design or construction in Chicago | |