Saturday, August 29, 2009

USDA LID practices

Green Roof at USDA in Washington DC U-Tube video

http://www.serve.gov/stories_detail.asp?tbl_servestories_id=117

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Water Quality OpenCourseware from MIT

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Civil-and-Environmental-Engineering/1-77Spring-2006/CourseHome/index.htm

Modeling class for environmental engineering from MIT

Other courses online too: http://septic.umn.edu/professional/worksheets/pre2008rulechange.html

http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators4_I_So-We.html#WASTE

Friday, January 9, 2009

White Castle goes green

http://uk.sys-con.com/node/803535

Fast food efforts to be green; new initiatives will include bioretention

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Sustainable building sourcebook

http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/#Water

This includes links to business addressing indoor water issues but also greywater irrigation, harvested rainwater and water budget items; pervious materials and xeriscape too

University of Florida - Fact Sheet on Bioswales/ Vegetated swales

http://buildgreen.ufl.edu/Fact%20sheet%20-%20Bioswales%20Vegetated%20Swales.pdf

fact sheet with nice section graphic

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Chesapeake Bay Program Blog

http://blog.chesapeakebay.net/post/Getting-aboard-the-low-impact-development-train.aspx

The posting of the day from mid Nov. provided a report on the LID conference in Seattle in Nov. 2008.