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Nov 5
Brisbane’s 470-meter Solar-powered Footbridge : A 470-meter solar-powered footbridge recently opened in Brisbane’s Central Business District, writes Inhabitat....
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Nov 5
Reconnecting a Washington State Park to the Local Community : Gustafson Guthrie Nichols and Allied Works won a design competition to create a park that will span an Interstate and connect a two-block section of Washington State’s Fort Vancouver national historic...
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Nov 5
New Landscape Rating System to Transform the Industry, Complete Green Building Puzzle : The Sustainable Sites Initiative released the nation’s first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings....
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Nov 4
Human Responses to Green Design : Frederik Marks, AIA, a partner with AC Martin, an architecture design firm, presented on the varied human responses to green design at the National Building Museum....
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Nov 4
Indiana Town Sees Canal as Sustainable Stormwater Management System and Economic Boost : Jeffersonville, Indiana, plans to change a street near the Ohio River into 40-foot wide canal and 3/4-mile pedestrian promenade....
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Oct 29
Planning Sustainable Communities: “It’s More than Being Green” : The focus of this year’s American Planning Association AICP National Symposium, held at the National Building Museum, was planning sustainable communities....
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Oct 29
The Garden That Climbs Stairs : Now famous for its Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim building, Bilbao continues to come up with unique ideas to revitalize its city center through urban design....
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Oct 28
Interview with Sadhu Johnston, Chicago’s Chief Environment Officer, on the City’s Climate Action Plan : Sadhu Johnston, Chief Environment Officer, Chicago city government, discusses Chicago’s forward-thinking and comprehensive climate action plan at its one-year anniversary....
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Oct 28
A New Response to Climate Change: Landscape Conservation Cooperatives : Barbara Boxer, Senator from California and chair of the Senate committee on the environment and public works, kicked off three days of hearings on the latest version of the Kerry-Boxer climate change...
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Oct 27
Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, Dies at 93 : Lawrence Halprin, FASLA, one of the world’s leading landscape architects, passed away at the age of 93....
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Oct 27
Design It: Shelter Competition Winner Facilitates Immersion in Nature : The Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp announced the winners of their Shelter It design competition....
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Oct 27
How High Speed Rail Can Spread Across the U.S. : The U.S. High Speed Rail Assocation, a new group formed to advocate for high speed rail, organized a conference in D.C....
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Oct 27
Does Looking at Nature Make People Nicer? : A new study from the University of Rochester published in Personality and Social Psychology argues that paying attention to the natural world makes people feel better and also makes them beha...
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Oct 27
Habitat Corridors Have Positive Spillover Effects : Habitat corridors, strips of natural land in between human settlements, enable plants and animals to spread and migrate and conduct their crucial ecological roles, such as fertilization.  Scientif...
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Oct 27
Economic Stimulus Opportunities for Landscape Architects and Other Design Professionals : ASLA has produced a guide to economic stimulus opportunities.  The guide outlines U.S. federal government stimulus opportunities that benefit landscape architects and other design professionals....
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Oct 27
Next Generation Technologies Are Responsive and Result from Inter-Disciplinary Teams : In a session at the National Building Museum, Susan Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis magazine, argued that next generation building and material technologies integrate the natural and bui...
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Oct 27
Sustainable Sites Initiative Wins Green Business Award : The Sustainable Sites Initiative won Washington Business Journal’s Green Business Award for education / outreach. The Sustainable Sites Initiative will create the first rating guidelines and...
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Oct 27
Kim Wilkie’s Orpheus Excavation : On the grounds of Boughton House in Northamptonshire, UK, Kim Wilkie Associates, a landscape architecture firm, created Orpheaus, a modern composition and excavation in “one of the great English house...
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Oct 27
France Invests $2.2 Billion in Electric Vehicle Network : The Wall Street Journal wrote that the French government plans to spend EUR 1.5 billion (about USD 2.2 billion) on developing a network of one-million electric vehicle (EV) battery-charging...
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