While 40 years ago industrial pipes contributed 85 percent of water pollution, now 85 percent comes from storm water and the runoff from farmers’ fields. These flows end in bodies of water like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound. As localities all over the…
Is Green Infrastructure Diminishing Innovation?
Since the Environmental Protection Agency, and in turn state and local regulators, have gone all in on green infrastructure (GI) and low impact development…
EPA Honors Winners of 2013 Campus RainWorks Challenge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the four winners of its second annual Campus RainWorks Challenge, a design challenge created…
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Timmons Group, and SRRN Games Launch New Stormwater Game for Earth Day
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Timmons Group, and SRRN Games are excited to celebrate Earth Day 2014 with the release of their online stormwater game titled “Stormwater Sentries.” The game, created for the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and promotes…
Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning and Design Workshop
As April showers begin to fall and the snow of the long winter continues to melt, town managers, planners, landscape architects, and other natural resource professionals should be thinking about stormwater management. National trends in stormwater management…
EPA Releases Climate Assessment Update to National Stormwater Calculator
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released phase II of the National Stormwater Calculator and Climate Assessment Tool package. The updated calculator includes future climate vulnerability scenarios. The calculator, a part of President Obama’s…
EPA's RainWorks Challenge Awards Universities for Green Infrastructure Design
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced the four winners of the Campus RainWorks Challenge, a new design challenge created to inspire the next generation of landscape architects, planners and engineers to develop innovative green infrastructure…
