First National Rating System for Sustainable Landscapes to Fill Critical Green Building Gap
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American Society of Landscape Architects:
What: The Sustainable Sites Initiative will release the nation`s first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without
buildings. A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the U.S. Botanic Garden, the Initiative`s
rating system represents four years of work by dozens of the country`s leading sustainability experts, scientists and design professionals, as well as public input from
hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations. This essential missing link in green design will foster a transformation in land development and management
practices.
Why: Existing rating systems offered little guidance beyond a building`s skin and focused on reducing a building`s environmental impact. Unlike buildings, sustainable
landscapes can even give back by cleaning the air and water, reversing climate change, restoring habitat and biodiversity -with the potential to provide significant
social and economic benefits.
Who: Holly Shimizu, Executive Director of the United States Botanic Garden
Nancy Somerville, Executive Vice President and CEO of ASLA
Susan Rieff, Executive Director of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin
When: Thursday, November 5 at 10:00 AM
Where: United State Botanic Garden Conservatory - West Gallery
About the Sustainable Sites Initiative
The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary partnership led 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 transform land development and management practices with the nation`s first
voluntary rating system for sustainable landscapes, with our without buildings.
For more information, visit www.sustainablesites.org.
American Society of Landscape Architects
Jim Lapides, 202-216-2371
jlapides@asla.org
or
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Saralee Tiede, 512-232-0104
stiede@wildflower.org
or
U.S. Botanic Garden
Sally Bourrie, 202-226-4145
sbourrie@aoc.gov
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