Tuesday, December 23, 2008

PLACE - Planning Active Community Living Environments

http://law.du.edu/documents/rmlui/place.pdf

Rocky Mountain Land Institute -- 88 slide ppt Brief history of planning movements in US, 1990s to present = "Putting People back into Planning" cites FHA policy changes, Smart Growth, New Urbanism and trend to put public health back into Planning


LID is identified as the first component of that in the Built Environment Systems category (6 categories)

Monday, December 22, 2008

Bioretention studies annotated list from UMD Civil Engineering

http://www.ence.umd.edu/~apdavis/LID-Publications.htm

New Nitrogen Calculator from the Chesapeake Bay Trust

Chesapeake Bay Nitrogen Calculator


How? CBF’s Nitrogen Calculator is designed to answer that question.

Modeled after existing “carbon calculators”, our Nitrogen Calculator is designed to:

  1. Help you learn how your actions add to water pollution problems in the Chesapeake watershed by calculating your “nitrogen footprint.”
  2. Help you learn how to reduce pollution by providing suggestions for minimizing your “footprint.”

Eventually, our Nitrogen Calculator will be linked to the Chesapeake Fund, an exciting new initiative that the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is launching with Forest Trends and the World Resources Institute. The Chesapeake Fund will leverage private investment to tackle the problem of water pollution across the Chesapeake watershed, by making it easy and affordable for citizens and businesses to reduce and offset their nitrogen pollution emissions.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Chesapeake Stormwater Network Blog

http://www.chesapeakestormwater.net/blog/2008/12/3/chesnetstormnews-4.html

This is a blog focused on the Chesapeake Bay Watershed issues and specifications; also includes research highlights. Subscription to the blog's network is an option

Friday, December 19, 2008