Constructing Rain Gardens
These two videos focus on the construction of rain gardens. They contain some good, basic information that should help citizen planners better understand what’s involved with constructing a rain garden.
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Audacious … or Realistic?
I met with planners trying to deal with the large amounts of vacant land in Cleveland’s inner-city neighborhoods. Their approach to turn things around: implementing creative, green-oriented strategies.
Managing Stormwater Runoff: A Green Infrastructure Approach
The practice of stormwater management is evolving beyond engineered approaches to methods that look at managing stormwater in more natural ways.
Green Infrastructure
Your town, city, or county undoubtedly has an infrastructure plan dealing with water, sewer, roads, and utilities — the gray infrastructure. But has it planned as well for green infrastructure, such as trails, greenways, river corridors, and bike paths?
Green Enhances Growth
People care about trees, and not just because they’re pleasant to look at look and provide cooling shade. Trees also increase property values and can help boost a community’s economic development.
On the Value of Trees and Open Space
Trees and open space not only benefit the environment, but property values as well.
Planning for Trees
Street trees can help define the hearts of our cities and towns. But too often tree planting programs are based on poor planning and faulty assumptions. An introduction to some of the basics of planning for trees.
