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Virtually Tour the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design: a certified Living Building on Georgia Tech’s Atlanta campus

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Photo: Rooftop Garden by Gregg Willett We build roads that allow vehicles to move safely, while channeling rainfall “away.” Our impervious developments require more infrastructure to convey stormwater “away.” We tear down buildings and throw them “away.” But there is no “away.” Our built environment burdens communities with externalities, taxpayers with costs, and future generations […]

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World Environment Day 2021

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For too long, we have been exploiting and destroying our planet’s ecosystems. Every three seconds, the world loses enough forest to cover a football pitch and over the last century we have& destroyed half of our& wetlands. As much as 50 per cent of our coral reefs have already been lost and up to 90 per cent of coral reefs could be […]

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Western U.S. may be entering its most severe drought in modern history

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BY JEFF BERARDELLI APRIL 12, 2021 / 6:46 AM / via CBS NEWS Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a bit like a broken record, with some scientists saying the region is on the […]

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San Diego’s Infrastructure Deficit Is Really a Stormwater Deficit

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It’s becoming clear that stormwater is by far the city’s biggest infrastructure problem – and that the city might actually do something about it. The infrastructure deficit that has hung over San Diego politics for years without meaningful intervention is perhaps better understood as a stormwater deficit. Eight years ago, Mayor Todd Gloria, then Council […]

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Hendersonville unveils Patton Park ‘Stormwater Stroll’

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Hendersonville invites the public to take a walk along the Patton Park “Stormwater Stroll.” The series of stormwater projects implemented by the city are now accompanied by informational signs to educate park visitors about water quality. “All the features you see along the Patton Park ‘Stormwater Stroll’ are designed to mimic how nature would treat stormwater if there were […]