[EQAB-list] FYI: Sustainable landscaping guidelines

[Ellen Smith <smithellen at comcast.net>]

The New York Times has an article about the Sustainable Sites Initiative (see http://sustainablesites.org/), which is proposing a LEED-like system for evaluating the sustainability of a landscaping project. The article is at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/garden/08garden.html?emc=eta1 and the document is at http://sustainablesites.org/report/SSI_Guidelines_Draft_2008.pdf 

After a very superficial skim, I think that the document looks worthwhile to disseminate in Oak Ridge (ideally not in paper copy, as it's quite long).

-- Ellen Smith

PS to RK, as the eqab-list list administrator: I tried to send this via the NY Times e-mail link, but I forgot that I can only send messages to this list from my comcast e-mail address. You may get notification of the rejected e-mail.