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    5 Tips For Choosing Garden Furniture

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    A Symbiosis Between Plants and Furniture

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    A Colorful Modular Table With Flower Pot Legs

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    10 Best Ergonomic Gardening Tools

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    How To Bring a Dull Dorm Room to Life With Plants

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    First SITES v2 Certified Landscapes Create Real Impact

    University of Texas at El Paso / Ten Eyck Landscape Architects Certifying your landscape project with the Sustainable SITES Initiative (SITES®)* can seem like an expensive, onerous process. So why bother? For Jamie Statter, vice president at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), SITES gives...
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    SITES Aims to Transform the Marketplace

    ASLA 2017 Professional Communications Honor Award. Ecology as the Inspiration for a Presidential Library Park. Black Locust bridge. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates / MVVA Inc With the General Service Administration (GSA) and now the state of Rhode Island adopting the use of the Sustainable...
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    At Greenbuild, Learn How to Improve Your Carbon Drawdown

    The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design. Atlanta, Georgia. Andropogon / Willett Photography How can architects, developers, and planners better partner with landscape architects to achieve shared goals on greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon drawdown? How can...
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    Landscape Architects Are Key to Increasing Carbon Drawdown

    Central Park Open Space Plan, Denver, Colorado / Andropogon “To quote Vaclav Smil: ‘human societies are nothing but subsystems of the lithosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants,'” said José M. Almiñana, FASLA, Principal, Andropogon...
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    Dredge Design

    Jamaica Bay / Drudge Design Collaborative To dredge simply means to scoop up sediment, often underwater, and move it to another location. While this process is often associated with moving contaminated soils to a place where they can be safely capped, today, dredging is also increasingly about...
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    Soon We’ll Be Able to Swim in the Chicago River

    Chicago River / Pinterest Take a dip in the Chicago River? Those familiar with its history might think twice. The Chicago River has a notoriously waste-filled past. Originally, the 150-mile-long waterway was used to fuel booming industry in the Midwest city. Little attention was paid to its...
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    Revisiting the Miasma Theory

    Cholera “tramples the victors & the vanquished both.” Robert Seymour. 1831. U.S. National Library of Medicine / Wikipedia, Public Domain. 19th century sanitation engineer George E. Waring, Jr. was a miasmaist. He believed in the miasma theory, which holds that toxic vapors emanated from damp...
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    New Linear Park Shows the Great Potential of Material Reuse

    Mission Boulevard Linear Park, Hayward, California / Marion Brenner, courtesy of Surfacedesign A new landscape in Hayward, California demonstrates how to reuse materials on a grand scale to save money and reduce climate impacts. Designed by landscape architects at Surfacedesign, the Mission...
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    Climate and Biodiversity News (August 2025)

    ASLA 2024 Professional Urban Design Honor Award. Urban Balcony Embracing Rewilded Nature. Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China. Turenscape Why Concrete Might Be Doing More Harm Than Good in the Fight Against Flood Risks, CNN, August “It’s time to ask the question: what other way can we adapt to...
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    Designing with Soils

    “Growing plants is the goal,” said James Urban, FASLA, Urban Trees + Soils, at the 2013 ASLA Annual Meeting in Boston. To grow healthy plants, one needs healthy soils, and landscape architects who understand soils and know how to call a soil scientist. In a wide-ranging talk, Urban and his...
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    SITES Certifies First Four-star Landscape

    The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) announced three new projects have achieved certification under the nation’s most comprehensive rating system for sustainable landscapes. The newly certified projects are the Phipps’ Center for Sustainable Landscapes in Pittsburgh, which is the first...
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    Landscape Architects and Their Clients Tackle SITES

    We often hear from landscape architects about the cutting-edge sustainable design practices they are bringing to their latest Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES®)-certified works, but we rarely hear from their clients. In a session at the ASLA 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston organized by Liz...
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