Green Business Solutions

Articles on landscaping

• How to Design and Plant a Rain Garden A "rain garden" is somewhat like a dry creek -- it is a depression into which water flows during wet periods. And the runoff sinks into the ground to prevent stormwater runoff that carries pollutants into the street...into the gutters...and into surface water bodies such as streams, lakes and the ocean.
  
• Nature's Economy -- Another Looming Collapse? "If we squander the ecological capital of the soil, the capital on paper won't much matter."
  
• Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks for Ecological Landscaping Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks Draft 2008, the most comprehensive set of national guidelines yet developed for the sustainable design, construction and maintenance of landscapes
  
• California Members of EPA's GreenScaping Program for Sustainable Landscaping Standard Operating Procedures for Better Land Management and Sustainability of Natural Resources
  
• Plants and Habitat Strategies for Sustainable Landscaping Plants and Habitat Strategies for Sustainable Landscaping that Conserves Natural Resources - Water, Soil, Wildlife and Air Quality
  
• Corporate Campus Best Practices for Green and Sustainable Facilities Corporate Campus Best Practices for Green and Sustainable Facilities
  
• Brownfields Reclamation and Land Management Resources US EPA provides extensive training, funding and resources for reclamation of brownfields that range from agricultural sites to urban industrial sites.
  
• Composting the Wilderness In Your Landscape Rancho Santa Ana Botanical garden provides practical composting strategies for landscaping with natural materials
  
• Gulf Sustainability Depends of Upstream Sustainable Agriculture The linkage between water and bioenergy choices on medium and large scales impacts the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone
  
• Save Money & More Save Money and MORE! Easy, high impact saving tips for businesses, organizations, neighborhoods and communities
  
• Wes Jackson, The Land Institute Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute (founded in 1976)
  
• Back To Natives Restoration in Orange County, CA Urban SoCal habitat restoration for people and our neighbors
  
• 10 Most Important Land Use Stories of 2007 Housing, Climate change...and looming legislation shape 2007 and the year to come
  
• Doin' The Green Thing - Oakland's TV Outreach Series Oakland, California is ahead of the urban land management trend with strides in managing open space for sustainable urban greenspace.
  
• Landscape Rating System to Encourage Sustainable Landscape Design A rating system for sustainable landscape design, called the Sustainable Sites Initiative is started in 2007
  
• California Council of Land Trusts Adjust to Climate Change California land trusts face stewardship and conservation activities in light of possible climate change impacts
  
• Los Angeles Firescaping with Cooperative Extension Sustainable and Fire SafE Landscapes provides guidelines for creating and maintaining fire-safe, environmentally-friendly landscapes in the wildland-urban interface
  
• Drought-tolerant Plantings Required in New Construction - LA County Southern California is in a drought -- it's time to seriously optimize your water use to reduce costs and conserve water supplies.
  
• Soil Retention with
  Plantable Driveways and Walls Soil Retention Systems produces "drivable grass", a permeable, flexible and plantable concrete pavement system that increases on-site water storage and minimized water runoff
  
• Edible Landscaping for Beauty and Function Edible landscaping brings multi-purpose to green spaces. Food can be for humans or wildlife...
  
• Greenscape a Floating Island to Expand Habitat and Clean the Water Improve water quality by adding riparian plantings to your pond, stream or even koi pond.
  
• Small Parks Could Cool Big Cities Extra parks and green roofs could counteract the predicted rise in temperature
  
• Leafblower Exchange Program for SoCal July 2007 Southern California leaf blower exchange program to reduce air pollution
  
• Save $85 million With Alternatives to Invasive Species Horticulture can address the serious and expensive problem of invasive plants.
  
• San Joaquin Valley Trade In Incentive for Electric Lawn Mowers - save 64% Save 64% on by trading in a used gas lawn mower for a new electric lawn mower.
  
• Green Gardener Green landscaping benefits everyone -- including vulnerable family members and neighbors, children and the elderly. It pays to landscape and garden green for green!
  
• Public garden Sustainable land management practices can succeed both on the small scale in your own backyard, and on a larger, estate scale.
  
• Landscaping Sustainable landscaping cleans the air, conserves water, cleans water and restores the soil.
  
• LEHR is launching the first Propane Powered String Trimmer Lawn and garden equipment provides a touch of beauty we expect in urban landscaping but it often leaves nasty emissions behind. Enter -- propane lawn and garden equipment by LEHR.