Sustainable landscape guidelines developed

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Mon, 11/10/2008 - 12:13pm

The Sustainable Sites Initiative, a partnership that includes The University of Texas at Austin's Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, invites public comment today on a new report that offers the most comprehensive set of voluntary guidelines yet developed for sustainable landscapes.

Titled "Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks Draft 2008," it provides more than 50 prerequisites and credit [...]



 

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