The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) is an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices. Major funding for the Sustainable Sites Initiative is provided by the Meadows Foundation and Landscape Structures.
SITES has announced eight more certified landscapes that show how the Rustbelt, Big Apple, Midwest and sunny Southern California share common ground. The eight projects represent the second group of landscapes to apply the guidelines and meet the requirements for certification among 150 projects in an extensive SITES pilot program. Learn more about them here.
SITES will open a public comment period this fall (September 26 - November 5) seeking input on the next version of the rating system. Please sign up here to receive email updates for more information.
The Sustainable Sites Initiative is hiring two new Program Coordinators to start immediately! Please see details on the two positions here.