High above the city is the flowing roof built by Roofscapes Inc. for the Friends Center, 15th and and Cherry streets. Love Lee/FreshVoice

Phila. firm's green roofs offer ecological heads-up

DeSarae Woodall - FreshVoice
It's a bright shiny day under a clear blue sky, and Jane Winkel, landscape architect and marketing director of the Mount Airy company Roofscapes Inc., is standing in the middle of a garden – four stories up.

The colorful landscape of fleshy green, purple and yellow plants called sedum is a "green roof" that Winkel's company installed last summer atop the Friends Center, 15th and Cherry streets, in Center City. It's one of 103 green roofs that Roofscapes has designed – making the local company one of the national leaders in the green-building industry. read more...