A company is making roofing tiles that contains sod, complete with grass. The idea is to provide a natural way to cool the urban environment:
I confess that my real interest in the TM9 turf mat is that I keep looking for grass carpets, as found in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan. In the book, carpets made of real grass are used to illustrate elegant living. I first read about the idea in Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land; winchell Ben Caxton had a living grass carpet in his bachelor flat.
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