Resources
Check out GCCA’s new Cool Roofs and Pavements Toolkit!
Links
DOE Building Envelope and Windows R&D Program Blog
Cool Roofs Calculator
Cool Roofing Materials Database
Energy Star Reflective Roof Products
Cool Roof Rating Council
European Union Cool Roofs Council
LBNL Heat Island Group
Cool California
Cool Roofs and Title 24
New York City Cool Roofs Program
White Roof Project
White Roof Project’s Urban Heat Island Presentation
Cool Roofs in Codes and Standards – Cool Roof Rating Council Fact Sheet
EPA Heat Island Group Case Study Database
New York City Cool Roof Ordinance (passed in April 2011)
GCCA Presentation for ICLEI Webinar, October 12, 2011
LBNL Heat Island Group response to Jacobson and Ten Hoeve (2011), November 4, 2011
GCCA Brief to International Energy Agency, November 17, 2011
Downloads: Technical Guides
NYC’s “Cool It Yourself” Cool Roof Kit
US Department of Energy Guidelines for Selecting Cool Roofs
New York City’s cool and green roof manual
Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies
Climate Protection Partnership Division in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Atmospheric Programs, October 2008.
Cool Roof Requirements Under the 2008 Building Energy Efficiency Standards
California Energy Commission, Blueprint Magazine, April-May 2010
Downloads: Academic Papers
The Long-Term Effect of Increasing Albedo of Urban Areas
Hashem Akbari et al 2012 Environmental Research Letters 7 024004, April 2012
Bright is the new black—multi-year performance of high-albedo roofs in an urban climate
S. R. Gaffin et al. Environmental Research Letters, March 2012
Regional climate consequences of large-scale cool roof and photovoltaic array deployment
Millstein, D. et. al. Environmental Research Letters, July 2011
Radiative Forcing and Temperature Response to Changes in Urban Albedos and Associated CO2 Offsets
Menon, S. et. al. Environmental Research Letters, January 21, 2010
Assessment of International Heat Island Research
Prepared for U.S. Department of Energy by Navigant Consulting, Inc., November 2009
Potential Benefits of Cool Roofs on Commercial Buildings: Conserving Energy, Saving Money, and Reducing Emission of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants
Levinson, R. and Akbari, H. Energy Efficiency, March 14, 2009
Global Cooling: Increasing World-Wide Urban Albedos to Offset CO2
Hashem Akbari, Surabi Menon, Arthur Rosenfeld, Climatic Change, 2008
Evolution of Cool-Roof Standards in the US
Hashem Akbari, Ronnen Levinson, Advances in Building Energy Research, Volume 2, 2008
White Roofs Cool the World, Directly Offset CO2 and Delay Global Warming
LBNL Heat Island Group, Research Highlights, November 10, 2008
Cool Colored Roofs to Save Energy and Improve Air Quality
LBNL Heat Island Group, (international conference, “Passive and Low-Energy Cooling for the Built Environment,” Santorini, Greece, May 2005)
Beyond White: Advances in Cool Colors
LBNL Heat Island Group, the Building Envelopes Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Concordia University
The Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael A. Nutter recently signed a law mandating energy-efficient reflective roofs on all new commercial and residential buildings with no or low slopes. 
