Category: stormwater
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Veg.itecture #49: VIVA + VIA
As promised, a slight modification of the Veg.itecture posts – due both to the enormous amounts of projects out there, but also based on a need for some different needs for both built and design projects. So, as promised – in the upcoming 50th post on the series on Vegetated Architecture, an evolution of sorts…
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2009: A Year in Preview
It’s funny reading the breakdowns of 2008, and the masses of predictions for 2009, (and a great one for 2010) specifically as the economy still reels due to wide-spread mismanagement, and there seems to be a non-stop (yet perhaps slower) parade of amazing, crazy, and just plain wrong projects – as witnessed in 2008. What…
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Veg.itecture #47
As we delve into this installment of Veg.itecture – it dawns on me that the current format of this feature may be ringing a little hollow and venturing into cliche after a year or so of it’s existence. It is definitely a valuable viewpoint to push forward these projects and visions, and I’ve definitely tried…
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The Detroit Dilemma – Ruminations
I recently finished up the draft text that summarized the land use and open space portions of the Detroit Sustainable Design Assessment Team (AIA SDAT) that I participated in a few months back. It gave me a chance to revisit some of the thinking around my initial thoughts and reactions – with some distance and…
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The Notorious H2O
Blue is the New Green – runs the headlines in last weeks NY Times blog, and not a moment too soon for that. Allison Arieff give an explanation: “A range of alternative energy technologies are available to us today; there is, however, no substitute for water. But there are new ways of thinking about water…
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Veg.itecture #42
It has been a while since we’ve had an opportunity to showcase some Vegetated Architecture. You missed it, didn’t you? Well, I did lose all of my accumulated links on my old computer – but it didn’t take long to accumulate some more gems. And well, it’s not all eye candy, as there has been…
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Incenting Ecoroofs in Portland
Some previous posts Sustainable Stormwater and Grey to Green alluded to a large push for incentives to promote stormwater management projects in the City of Portland. For ecoroofs, the City is putting up the money to back up the talk, with a recent announcement.:: image via Bureau of Environmental Services Read the text below… excerpted…
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Salmon-Safe SoWa
I’ve riffed a bit on SoWa previously on Landscape+Urbanism as filled with potential but needing some time… A recent report by Dyland Rivera from the Oregonian and picked up on Jetson Green as well, that the 35-acre area in the South Waterfront area in Portland has acheived Salmon Safe Certification, the first urban neighborhood to…
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Unnatural Waters
This post stems from a fascinating post I spotted a while back on Treehugger. The topic was the Foreclosure Fish… a resultant reaction from the abandonment of homes, and more specifically swimming pools. “The mortgage crisis is not only wrecking peoples’ lives, it’s not doing much good for the environment, either. The swimming pools of…
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High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines
In searching for some new landscape-related links to explore, I stumbled across the blog for Design Trust for Public Space (aka I (heart) Public Space) and their 2005 publication High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines. :: image via Design Trust This “…detailed handbook describes practices for creating sustainable city streets, sidewalks, utilities, and urban landscaping. Following the…