The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary effortby the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Gardento create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, constructionand maintenance practices.
While standards exist for sustainable structures—“green buildings”—there are no comprehensive guidelines and performance benchmarks for those who want to create and measure sustainable landscapes.
Main site: http://www.sustainablesites.org/
Keep posted for their Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks -- public feedback is being sought until January 20, 2009.
They also have a great list of case studies to review.
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