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The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary effort
by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden
to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction
and maintenance practices.

The Sustainable Sites Initiative Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks – Draft 2008 is now available! Public comments are accepted until January 20, 2009. Click here to download the report.

Sustainable Facts

New York State experienced 1,280 beach closure or advisory days in 2006, many due to the combined sewer overflow systems being overwhelmed by stormwater runoff.
  ~ Natural Resources Defense Council, 2007

SUSTAINABLE SITES CASE STUDY:
Malolepsy/Battershell residence garden
The Malolepsy/Battershell project is a small, renovated urban residential landscape in Portland, Oregon. The project objectives included reducing water use for irrigation, managing stormwater runoff, decreasing heat build-up from a concrete...
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