Water

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]

cities and green space

Over the last decade, but particularly over the last five years, the concepts of sustainable design and its sub-genre, green infrastructure, have entered into the design, construction, and renovation of urban parks.[read more]

Bullitt Center in Seattle

The Bullitt Center intends to pass the “Living Building Challenge,” in which it must perform much like an organic system: generating as much energy as it uses, producing no waste, and being water-efficient.[read more]

Sure, you may already know the answer to the question of how trees transport water up to such incredible heights. But this video from Veritasium is still worth it.[read more]

water cycle

The theme of World Water Day 2013 is the International Year of Water Cooperation. Instrumentation and Big Data analytics are truly the foundation for cooperation about water management.[read more]

time scale

Cities cannot be considered “sustainable” without acknowledging and accounting for their teleconnections — that is, their long-distance dependence and impact on resources and populations in other regions around the world.[read more]

developing greener concrete

The idea is to use bioethanol production byproducts to produce a material to use in concrete as a partial replacement of cement to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete materials.[read more]