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American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Watch an animation that explains how to transform transportation systems into multiuse infrastructure that serves everyone. Learn how communities can save money and improve the environment by redesigning their existing infrastructure.
Tags: transportation, Infrastructure, Urban, design, American Society of Landscape Architects, ASLA, cities, railroads
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Inhale, exhale! Unless the air is dirty, that is. Cleaning up the air is a problem that many cities face. The American Society of Landscape Architects says that by planting more trees and creating urban forests, cities can be a cleaner and...
Tags: Green, sustainable, construction, architecture, t, Tree, design, American Society of Landscape Architects, ASLA, landscape architecture
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Editor's Pick: As the weather begins to cool down, we will begin turning up the heat and grabbing our blankets and hats to try to stay warm. What if there was a more sustainable and cost-effective way to keep
Tags: transportation, Infrastructure, home, architecture, subsidies, cooling, insulation, Toronto, Urban, trees
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
When an old building is torn down, the waste material is usually just carted off to a landfill. According to the American Society of Landscape Architects, this material can be used to create parks and other greenspace where old buildings once stood...
Tags: recycling, Green Communities, Green Cities, sustainable architecture, construction waste, landscape architecture, Green Building At Its Best
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Thursday, February 02, 2012
City trees can reduce hourly ozone by up to 15 percent, sulfur dioxide by 14 percent, and particulate matter by 13 percent--and they're pretty as well! Watch
United States Forest Service
Friday, August 27, 2010
The American Chestnut tree was once the dominate "sequoia" of the Eastern US. But, tragically, the great tree succumbed to a fungus (or blight) that wiped out 99.9 percent of them.
Tags: American Chestnut
Friday, July 08, 2011
Momentum is building to initiate new uranium mining efforts in northern New Mexico, home to the nation's richest deposits. Assignment Earth traveled to communities around Mount Taylor, N.M., where uranium mining holds a "dark legacy."
Tags: Mining, pollution, Assignment Earth, This American Land, Environment, New Mexico, Environment News Trust, uranium, Native American, radiation
Monday, February 01, 2010
In early 2009, just one month before the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), Rasmussen released a poll that said onl
Oljato-Monument Valley (Nik Shuliahan/Unsplash https://unsplash.com/license)
Northwestern University
Monday, November 22, 2021
Tribal leaders and experts urged members of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Thursday to increase funding for tribal climate initiatives and to give Native American leaders a place in shaping climate policy.