Sustainable Sites Initiative
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
Weather-based irrigation systems can reduce irrigation water use by 20 percent in the United States, which is 24 billion gallons per year.
~ U.S. EPA, 2007
SUSTAINABLE SITES CASE STUDY:garden\garden: A Comparison in Santa Monica
In 2003, the City of Santa Monica, CA, initiated a project called garden\garden, designed to encourage city residents and the local landscaping community to adopt sustainable garden practices. The city wished to promote practices that w...
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