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Courses and Workshops
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Click here to register. Download the Agenda (.pdf). Thank you to our Sponsors. Thank you to our Partners. The DC Government has two green roof rebate programs - one for any kind of roof under 4,000 s.f. that offers $5 / s.f. and a per-project maximum of $20,000 - and a second program for roof retrofits on existing buildings over 4,000 s.f. which offers $7 / s.f. and does not have a maximum amount ( find out more about this rebate program here. President Obama’s Executive Order 13514 on Federal Leadership...
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Natives in Your Neighborhood. Down the Drain, the Story of Urban Water. October 7, 2014. The second lecture focuses on stormwater runoff. Students examine how human development degrades their Accotink Creek Watershed and eventually the Chesapeake Bay. By taking a close look at the school’s footprint, students are able to analyze the impact their 40 acre campus actually has on Accotink Creek. Taking a closer look at the school grounds, 63% of the campus is impervious. Posted in Educational Program. A numb...
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Fairfax Water, Fairfax High School: New Partners, New Program. | Lands and Waters
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Natives in Your Neighborhood. Frost: Our diverse marsh, six months later. Down the Drain, the Story of Urban Water →. Fairfax Water, Fairfax High School: New Partners, New Program. September 26, 2014. Lands and Waters has brought together local experts to lead classroom lectures accompanied by field labs. Please follow us over this school year, as students investigate aspects of watershed health and human impact. Classroom instruction is kept to a minimum, in order to maximize outdoor field studies.
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Our Projects | Lands and Waters
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Natives in Your Neighborhood. 8220;The best place for a rain drop is where it falls.”. Projects demonstrate our focus on watershed issues. All of our projects have an educational outreach component. The educational component of our activities includes lectures and workshops for adults and a story based curriculum for children. Our demonstration sites promote low impact development techniques and best management practices. Our Foundation – Featured Pilot Project:. Daniels Run Elementary School Project.
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Our Partners | Lands and Waters
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Natives in Your Neighborhood. Look who’s supporting our projects! Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund. City of Falls Church. Hands-on Greater DC Cares. Living Classrooms of the National Capital Region. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District. Octoraro Native Plant Nursery. Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. Virginia Vernal Pools Program. Washington Parks and People. Youth Services Opportunities Program. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Join 8 ...
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Reaching for a Climate Deal in Paris – The Dirt
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The Dirt by E-mail. Uniting the Built and Natural Environments. Reaching for a Climate Deal in Paris. University of Toronto students protesting / Rabble.ca. Leading up to the UN climate change summit in Paris in December, the question is: can the heads of the world’s governments get it together and create a real game plan to stave off a 2-degree increase in global temperatures? At an event organized by the Center for American Progress and. COP 21, Paris Climate Summit / COP 21. What will this cost? At Pa...
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Links | CREW DC
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Skip to main content. 2016 Board of Directors. CREW DC Past Presidents. 2016 CREW Network Convention. 2016 Board of Directors. CREW DC Past Presidents. 2016 CREW Network Convention. American Institute of Architects. American Institute of Architects, Northern Virginia (AIA NoVA). Http:/ www.aianova.org. Http:/ www.bisnow.com. Apartment and Office Building Association (AOBA). Http:/ www.aoba-metro.org. The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). Http:/ midatlantic.corenetglobal.org. DC Real Estate Group.
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Case Study: A Green use for urban infill | CRASHED (not burned)
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A Resource for Commercial Real Estate and MBA Graduates. Case Study: A Green use for urban infill. Could this Become This. The next need is for indoor, heated space. The conventional approach, of course, would be to drop one of these bad boys on the site:. If a standard trailer won’t draw excited throngs of visitors onto a site in an area DCMUD describes as desperate for thoughtful development. Truck it in, truck it out. Green Incubator Proposal for Bruce Monroe Site. Use buildings could as a showoom for...
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MIT’s Advanced Urbanism – The Dirt
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The Dirt by E-mail. Uniting the Built and Natural Environments. MIT’s Advanced Urbanism. 8220;Here at MIT, we have the infinite flexibility to innovate,” said MIT landscape architecture professor Alan Berger. In a tour of the new Center for Advanced Urbanism (CAU). One of CAU’s first projects is a collaboration with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Clinton Global Initiative, on Health Urbanism. Unfortunately, Berger sees this as inevitable because “too many cities don’t have...As an exa...
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.: March 2011
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Sunday, March 6, 2011. Green Roofing - It's American. As one of the first beautiful days of spring in the mid-Atlantic settled in, a group of 40 volunteers from the Urban Land Institute. US Green Building Council. Aggressive goal of going carbon neutral by 2020. With that accomplished, the volunteers were separated into working groups and organized for the day of construction. Mature Green Roof at American University. Labels: American University Sustainability Initiative. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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