#green roof

[uwmspeccoll]

GOOSE WATCH 2024: THE GOOSENING

We have goslings! The eggs have hatched and now we have six baby geese exploring the green roof. As you may recall, there were seven eggs—sadly one of the eggs was broken. But we do have six healthy little goslings toddling about! They are exploring all over the green roof and will grow to many times their current size over the next few weeks. Mom and Dad are being very attentive and staying with the babies as they check out every corner of the roof! One of my favorite things about the pictures I took of the goslings is how they seem to glow in many of the pictures due to the sheer amount of fluff and fuzz of their downy baby feathers.

We hope they will be safe from the Peregrine Falcons and Kestrels that sometimes fly around campus and that they will have enough food and water! We will keep updating our social media as the geese grow and hopefully eventually make it off the roof.

View our other posts on Horace & Mildred, the proud parents.

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#geese #canada geese #goslings #baby goose #baby geese #hatchlings #Goose Watch 2024 #canada goose #Horace & Mildred #green roof #sedum #goose #birds #birbs! #borbs!

[keepingitneutral]

Alarine Earth Home, Koshi, India,

Zarine Jamshedji Architects Conceived in collaboration with builder Cornelis Alan Beuke

Photo Credit: Syam Sreesylam

#art #design #architecture #interior design #interiors #minimalism #earth home #india #koshi #alarine #zarine jamshedji #cornelis alan beuke #solar energy #sustainability #grassland #holistic #green roof

[arc-hus]

House in Flinders, Australia - Kennedy Nolan Architects

#Kennedy Nolan Architects #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #minimal #house #house design #modern house #beautiful home #coastal #views #timber cladding #green roof #australia #stone #dining room #garden #australian architecture

[remash]

high park ~ ian macdonald architect | photo credit: tom arban

#architecture #houses #interiors #interor design #contemporary #columns #layering #kitchens #canada #living #green roof #shed

[veiligplekje]

#somewhere in #norway #or #sweden #probably #scandinavia #green roof #cottagecore #fieldcore #country life

[renee-mariposa]

So I’m driving to work and it’s 101*F and I’m viciously daydreaming about every goddamn flat-roofed building in the city having a functioning green roof, keeping the buildings a little cooler and allowing bugs and birds to live all over the city. Every parking lot has elevated solar panels, making electricity while shading cars and pedestrians. I want it I want it I want it!!

#climate action #solar punk #a girl can dream #if I’d won the power ball this is something I would’ve done #just given people money to cover the city in green roofs #green roof #climate change

[a-transhumanist-perspective]

Solarpunk orchard

#solarpunk #orchard #farmland #farmhouse #green roof #art #ai #sustainable architecture #architecture #midjourney #midjourney art #digital art #farm life #homesteading #house #home #rural #sustainable agriculture #agriculture

[the-home]

Hill House

#green roof #hill house #architecture #garden #outdoors #outdoor #concept #earthhome #earth house #green living

[zlatokryletz]

Freehand architectural study on A3 size. Been (quite a long!) while since I've used a format this large, so this has truly been a liberating experience🎐 On another note, how could it not be one given the media used: black marker and the dilutable oil pastels that deliver this raw, varying texture to the coloured surfaces. Hence the close-ups for the more texture fancy🦄

#architecture #oil pastels #orthodox church #temple architecture #colourful #freehand #mixed media #red #blue #cheerful #green roof

[lynxmuse]

Library of the Earth by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP  

#architecture #building #creating space #design #books #library #underground #green roof #very cool

[uwmspeccoll]

A Goose Family Feathursday

Mildred and Horace Start a Family!!

Every spring for the past few years a mating pair of Canada Geese take up residence on the green roof outside our window for a couple of weeks. We've named them Horace and Mildred, and we did a post about them in 2021. We wondered if they would ever establish a nest in the roof's sedum, but they just hang out for a few weeks and then depart. This year they finally decided that our roof was suitable to start a family and about 20 days ago Mildred set up housekeeping with a downy nest and six eggs near one of the vents on the roof. We are all very excited here in Special Collections, and we maintain daily goose alerts!

Mildred will incubate her brood for about 30 days, rarely leaving the nest. She is a very devoted mother. Horace on the other hand is usually gone during the day, so we rarely see him. Canada Geese are monogamous and mate for life, so we don't think he's cheating on Mildred, but we all thought he would be more present as the male usually hangs about to help guard the nest, but apparently he has other ideas.

We should see some hatchlings in about ten days or so, and we'll bring you an update then. While we are interested in seeing the couple nest on our roof, we also have concerns. There is no water, and the goslings will be susceptible to falling off the roof and becoming prey to raptors and other avian predators, especially the peregrine falcons that raise their own families on the nearby roofs of our campus's tallest buildings. Nature will have its way, but we do hope that Mildred and Horace have strategies for keeping their family safe.

Stay tuned!

View more Feathursday posts.

#Feathursday #Canada Geese #Canada Goose #goose #geese #Horace & Mildred #green roof #sedum #nests

[firedragon1321]

New idea based on the Green Acres theme song. I call it Rooftop Farms.

Man wants that cottagecore life

Woman wants to stay in the city

You know the jist

Instead of getting sexist as fuck, they compromise like adults

"Why don't you see if the city will give you a permit to build your own farm?"

There is only one available and it's for the roof of the apartment they live in

The catch is Literally Anything can go on that roof, no matter how heavy (sitcom logic)

Every episode is about some kind of haywire misadventure involving a new machine/animal

Husband and wife argue, then work together to fix it

Wife eventually gets used to the smell of cow shit on the roof. Oddly, it makes her think of her husband.

Husband enjoys his little economically sustainable farm land, and the view of the city his wife loves

Neighbors include a grumpy Squidward-esque guy who constantly gets roped into shenanigans

50% absurdity, 50% the healiest relationship in sitcoms, 0% sexism

#tw sexism mention #green acres #not really an #au #but a remaster #green roof #rooftop farms #sitcom #sorry this is formatted like a 4chan greenpost #*YOU ARE MY WIFE* always bugged me #like you can steal this idea #make it gay #make an au #just credit me

[arc-hus]

Garden Pavilion del Roccolo, Alta Brianza, Italy - Act Romegialli

#Act Romegialli #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #house #minimal #interior design #garden #pavilion #garden room #swimming pool #luxury #green roof #beautiful design #concrete #tiles #timber #italy

[timelessarchitecture]

BROWN & BROWN - THE ARBOR HOUSE

#Brown & Brown #architecture #residential #singlefamily #concrete #wood #window details #green roof

[movingtothefarm]

#cob house #garden #play house #scrap wood #green roof

[sunwardscity]

Rural Village Common Buildings by David Noren

#cottage #village #rural #solarpunk #green roof