Roswell mosque to build new eco-friendly 'living buildings'

Roswell Community Masjid recently broke ground on their new living building campus (Courtesy of Roswell Community Masjid)

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A metro Atlanta mosque is aiming for a high environmental standard with its new campus, known as the Living Building Challenge.

The goal for living buildings is to be more than sustainable: to not just reduce their impact, but to actually improve the environment. That means using renewables to generate more energy than a building uses, retaining and managing rainwater onsite, and planting native species, among other steps.