"Living roof" will be the...

"Living roof" will be the project's centerpiece

Planting the embryo s of corporate ecological stewardship, Ford Motor Co is using sustainable design as the driving force behind the $2 billion redevelopment of its historic Rouge Center manufacturing plant in Dearborn, Mich.

undivided of the world's largest and oldest industrial sites, part of the 1917 tangle -- once home to the gauge A -- is now a brownfield site, further not for long. The company has enlisted the services of William McDonough + Partners, Charlottesville, Va., a leading firm in the field of environmentally