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EPA launches green infrastructure listserv

Posted Mon, 2013/02/11 - 4:22pm by RCAP

EPA's green infrastructure program has launched a green infrastructure listserv, called GreenStream, to share training opportunities, newsletters, and publications. Send an email to join.

Low-impact development fact sheets available online

Posted Mon, 2013/02/11 - 4:18pm by RCAP

EPA has released a fact-sheet series on the benefits of low-impact development (LID) and addressing obstacles to wider adoption of LID. Low-impact development is an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible. It employs principles such as preserving and recreating natural landscape features, minimizing effective imperviousness to create functional and appealing site drainage that treat stormwater as a resource rather than a waste product.

Show off your water-smart landscapes!

Posted Mon, 2013/02/11 - 4:16pm by RCAP

Are you a green thumb with a knack for saving blue? If so, Facebook and Instagram aren't the only places where you can show off your water-saving landscape projects. WaterSense's Water-Smart Landscape Photo Contest invites home and business owners, landscape designers, irrigation professionals, and anyone else committed to saving water to submit snapshots of landscapes from any time of the year - including past years - that demonstrate how water-smart practices can be both beautiful and efficient.