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Upcoming GreenCityBaltimore Event
Pack your camera and a picnic lunch for a great afternoon in the park when you attend GreenCityBaltimore and the Gwynns Falls Trail Council’s ART ON THE TRAIL PHOTO SAFARI on Sunday, August 12, 2007 (11am – 4pm)! Bring your … Continue reading
Walkscore
Using Google Maps, you can now see what the “Walk Score” of any address may be. A Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Pretty cool stuff. Check it out here.
EPA Guidance on SWM Maintenance
Good discussion of Operation & Maintenance and sample documents here.
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World’s Largest SWM Facility
Don’t really know, but we would guess it is Lake Okeechobee in central Florida. Interesting article on some of the issues they are dealing with – all on a very large scale – here.
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CADoogle
Want to do a search for online CAD drawings? Check out CADoogle here. Pretty cool.
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Environmental Site Design (ESD) in Maryland – the new 2007 law
“Environmental site design.” Get used to the term. It is also called “low impact development.” Developers will have to rely even heavily on their site designers when Maryland’s new stormwater management law and regulations go into effect next year. The … Continue reading
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Serious Green Roofs
The largest collection of photos we’ve run across here.
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More on Pervious Concrete
in New England, a demo by Agg Industries. Read it here
Guerrilla Greywater
A shining example of codes versus common sense backlash, it seems that folks in California are bootlegging their installation of greywater systems. Interesting read here.
Sustainable Stormwater Management 