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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

Maintenance over a 20-year span for a non-native turf grass landscape can cost almost seven times more than the cumulative costs of maintenance for a native prairie or wetland.
  ~ U.S. EPA, 2007

SUSTAINABLE SITES CASE STUDY:
Florida Aquarium Parking Lot and Queuing Garden
In 1993, Florida Aquarium in mid-town Tampa partnered with the Southwest Florida Water Management District to build an 11.25- acre stormwater research and demonstration area to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative low impact parking lo...
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