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Sustainable US landscapes being sought

The Sustainable Sites Initiative is seeking site and landscape projects in the US as pilot projects for the Sustainable Sites Initiative Rating System, released on November 5, 2009.

Accepted pilot projects will be the first projects to demonstrate their application of The Sustainable Sites Initiative: Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009.

Feedback will be used to revise the rating system and inform the technical reference manual.

Projects may only be submitted online through February 15, 2010.

Pilot projects will be selected to ensure a broad range of project types, sizes, budgets, geographic diversity and phase of development.

The minimum project size is 2,000 sq ft.

Visit http://www.sustainablesites.org/pilot/ for more information.

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  • Deepening Perspectives on Sustainable Land Development http://www.sldi.org/newService/SLDIJan2010.html Green building certification programs today pay scant attention to landscaping, but they should, according to the Sustainable Sites Initiative, which has just announced release of the world's first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes. This and other certification programs fit well within the scope of holistic sustainable land development principles and Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) embraces their development. In fact, a SLDI project has applied to participate in the Sustainable Sites Initiative as a portion of its pilot phase participation in The SLDI Code™ best practices system. Your participation and comments are welcome. Terry Mock Executive Director Sustainable Land Development International - www.SLDI.org

    Terry Mock | 1 February 2010 at 10:55

  • thanks for spreading the word. this is a great set of tools to help conserve our water quality/quantity, particularly in the 6 states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage. Thank you!

    Virginia R. Rockwell, VSLD, VCH, APLD Associate | 1 February 2010 at 10:59

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