Water

Water Purification Costs

An inexpensive new material made of clay and papaya seeds removes harmful metals from water and could lower the cost of providing clean water to millions of people in the developing world.[read more]

the lawn ideal

Given a closer look at what all of real costs of having a lawn actually are, it may be time to question whether or not they’re as vital as American culture would suggest.[read more]

crew on the Anacostia

The Anacostia routinely makes the bad lists of the nation’s most endangered and polluted rivers. Yet a weekday cruise on this urban river reminds us of what’s worth making an effort to restore.[read more]

Pygmy Forest of Mendocino

I recently took a field trip to a pygmy forest in coastal Mendocino County through the City College of San Francisco Biology Dept. If you didn’t know what you were looking at, you’d think the trees are “sick.”[read more]

new urbanism in Salt Lake City

Christie Oostema, Planning Director at Envision Utah said in a recent podcast that she hopes to see Salt Lake City become an incubator for new urbanism projects.[read more]

restoring infrastructure

Taking a site near to the Gowanus Canal, one of the most polluted water bodies in the country, a group of architects explored a new potential relationship between people and their infrastructure.[read more]

boulevards in Paris

The boulevards laid out by Baron Haussmann were lined with trees which were heavily pruned every year, a maintenance regime which kept these trees in perpetual adolescence and allowed them to exist with much smaller soil volumes.[read more]

clean water

In other parts of the world, low-cost, easily implemented water purification methods may be the key to battling waterborne illness. Read on to find out what is being done to increase access to clean water around the world.[read more]

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

For a small community with limited resources like Camino Island, the challenge then becomes how to do sustainable development in the face of climate change.[read more]

water abuser?

As Americans we use a lot of water—per capita, more than any other country on the planet. A huge portion goes to thermoelectric cooling, or removing heat from our fossil fuel burning power plants.[read more]

the future of water

According to the heads of the major built-environment design organizations, it’s water. Water is going to become increasingly scarce. Worldwide, countries are struggling with diminishing ground water resources.[read more]

midwest flooding

The response for more resilience to severe weather events should include better planning for growth patterns that reduce pavement, and green infrastructure to absorb more rainwater before it becomes runoff.[read more]