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New Sustainable Landscapes Report

Online Report Offers Recommendations on how to Design and Build Sustainable LandscapesAUSTIN, Texas? The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the United States Botanic Garden (USBG) will release a report today recommending guidelines and a rating system for sustainable landscape design.

The report, available at http://www.sustainablesites.org (see link below), features over 200 recommendations for designing and building sustainable landscapes.

The Preliminary Report on Standards and Guidelines represents thousands of hours of work by 32 experts in fields ranging from design and construction to soils, hydrology and public health.

Main site:

http://www.sustainablesites.org

Report (pdf)

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