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Based on Stories from trustworthy source on the web, in order to help prevent or reduce the impact of global warming, adding a green open space with a garden on the roof of houses, buildings, hotels and offices is one of effective way. Although the condition of the urban region mostly filled by high buildings, the designers (architects, and landscape architect) must create a green open space to add plants that have been taken over when the building was constructed.

By creating a garden on the roof, high buildings can still have a green open space, because there is space efficiency. Roof garden is as an alternative reforestation to improve the quality of big city environmental health.

The making of roof garden is not cheap and need structure and specific roof construction. Even for optimal results, the construction of the roof  garden must be designed from the beginning, before the building was constructed.

A private hospital in Singapore succeeded in reducing electricity consumption by 50 percent, after making roof garden. Although the roof garden is just a tomato plant, which is placed in the pot to cover the entire roof. Another advantage, the hospital did not have to buy tomatoes anymore.

In addition to add the shade, the roof garden can also be used to absorb toxic gases. For example, bamboo or palm can absorb formaldehyde gas and gasoline. While the lily plant,besides to absorb formaldehyde gas and gasoline, it also could absorp alcohol and acetone which resulted from paint and so forth. Vines also serves to absorb gases acetate, ammonia, and other gases. Because of these functions, the vines has been used as roof garden in Singapore and Japan.

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