<p>[To</a> slow global warming, install white roofs - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-roofs10-2008sep10,0,2205405.story]To”>New anti-warming tool: white roofs) </p>
<p>Is Al Gore on this yet?</p>
<p>There are many reasons to have white roofs and buildings. If you’ve ever been to Greece, you might have seen many white buildings. The reason the buildings are white originated with the idea of trying to control bugs and insects. At least, that’s what I learned from a Greek taxi cab driver.</p>
<p>If you’ve ever been to Bermuda, you’ll see a lot of the roofs there are white. They’re painted with some sort of lime material that affects the rain when it hits the roof. The rain then falls to a storage tank underneath each house where the water is treated and pumped back into the house for use by the people living in the house.</p>