Chicago is home to over 200 green roofs, covering 2.5 million square feet, more than any other U.S. city. They sit atop Mayor Daley’s City Hall, Target, the Apple store, and a McDonalds.

The neighbors include a gas station and a Rainforest Cafe with a hideous green frog on its roof. The original McDonald’s on this site, a low-slung affair that opened in 1983, played a leading ...

When a Cary McDonald’s restaurant was torn down and replaced this past summer by a new “green” one, the chain received national attention for the effort. In addition to a green roof and PHEV ...

The neighbors include a gas station and a Rainforest Cafe with a hideous green frog on its roof. The original McDonald’s on this site, a low-slung affair that opened in 1983, played a leading ...

CHICAGO ― Vegetative green roofs, permeable street pavings and table tops made from recycled milk containers ― all of this may sound like experimental eco-friendly features in a distant lab ...

We sent D intern Taylor Walker to check out the new mega-McDonald’s in Irving. Let’s see what she had to say about this gi-normous adventure in green design… The Massey family (from right ...

The first ecologically friendly McDonald’s Restaurant in Central America opened last week in Lindora, Santa Ana. This McDonald’s, a $2 million investment, is designed to improve energy efficiency and ...

This fact makes green roofs more practical for new development rather than retrofitting. There are a number of design considerations that will affect the efficiency of green roofs. Some of these ...