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The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) is an interdisciplinary effort 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 create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices.

Sustainable Facts

Soils stockpile more carbon than vegetation and the atmosphere combined. Wetland soils in particular are estimated to store up to 15 pounds of organic carbon per square foot.
  ~ Swift, 2001; Pouyat et al., 2006

SUSTAINABLE SITES CASE STUDY:
Florida Aquarium Parking Lot and Queuing Garden
In 1993, Florida Aquarium in mid-town Tampa partnered with the Southwest Florida Water Management District to build an 11.25- acre stormwater research and demonstration area to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative low impact parking lo...
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