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Roundabout Interchange
It might not look like your typical roundabout, but this "dual teardrop" roundabout interchange built in 2010 is the latest interchange design used by engineers in Carmel, Ind., a city of 80,000 that now has 67 roundabouts and 16 more in development. Key features include depression of the…
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Michelle Wyman
Michelle Wyman is executive director of Applied Solutions, a non-profit organization of local governments committed to aggregating action, leadership and innovation to advance integrated solutions for water, energy, transport and the built environment. She is also a former executive dire…
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STATER BROS. SUPERMARKETS DISTRIBUTION CENTER
At the Stater Bros. Distribution Center, recyclable material from Stater Bros. Supermarkets is loaded into a 21-ton compactor which is picked up daily and transported to a composting facility. This Stater Bros. Composting Program removed over 27 million pounds of waste from landfills in 200…
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Michael Mucha
Michael Mucha is chief executive of the Madison, Wis. Metropolitan Sewerage District and an instructor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., where he teaches Sustainable Leadership and Decision Making.
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Baldwin Park Stormwater Management Pond
A stormwater management pond in an Orlando, Fla., housing development is beautiful in form and function. The EPA says requiring proper stormwater management in new developments and redevelopments can help prevent excessive runoff.
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Bioswale Median
A bioretention facility in the median along Milwaukee's West Grange Avenue is designed to absorb runoff from the street and gradually percolate it back into the groundwater system. Only after the swale is filled to capacity will storm water spill over into the storm sewer system.
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Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility
Fully operational in 1995, the Edward C. Little Water Recycling Facility in El Segundo, Calif., is a state-of-the-art water recycling treatment facility that produces 30 million gallons of water per day, conserving enough drinking water to meet the needs of 60,000 households for a year. I…
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SNYDER’S OF HANOVER SOLAR FIELD
Simulated photo of a section of Snyder's of Hanover's ground-based solar farm. The project begins construction this month and is slated for completion in March 2011. When completed, the 16,000 solar panel farm will be enclosed by fencing and landscaping. (PRNewsFoto/Snyder's of Hanover)
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Elizabeth Blazevich
Elizabeth Blazevich is a program director at the American Architectural Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Steven J. Penshorn
Steven J. Penshorn, P.E., CPM, is a Supervising Engineer for Quality and Standards Management in the City of Austin Public Works Department.
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Linda Bruemmer
Linda Bruemmer directs the Division of Environmental Health for the Minnesota Department of Health.
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Ruth Ann Norton
Ruth Ann Norton is executive director of the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning. Her agency designed and implemented the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI), a national public-private partnership "that refocuses how we as a nation repair and improve housing in economically ch…
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Pervious Pavement
Pervious pavement consists of a permeable surface course underlain by a uniformly-graded stone bed which provides temporary storage for peak rate control and promotes infiltration. The surface course may consist of porous asphalt, porous concrete, or various porous structural pavers laid on …
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Sustainable Cities Design Academy
The Sustainable Cities Design Academy, a public/private partnership of the American Architectural Foundation and United Technologies, helps local governments develop plans for sustainable building and infrastructure designs. Pictured is an actual rough draft produced at one of the academy's …
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Nathan Norris
Nathan Norris is CEO of the Downtown Development Authority of Lafayette, La.
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Deborah Weinstein
Deborah Weinstein is senior manager of the California environmental non-profit TreePeople, which is currently working with the city of Los Angeles to institutionalize responsible on-site stormwater management.
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Marco Velotta
Marco Velotta is a management analyst in the city of Las Vegas sustainability office.
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Learning About Green Roofs
Ryan Peterson, ASLA, LEED AP, of RDG Planning & Design in Des Moines, Iowa, helps children make miniature green roofs during a recent science center camp. The educational session was held on the green roof RDG designed atop the Roe Center on the Central College campus in Pella, Iowa. The LEE…
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Rain Gardens
In a recent study in Madison, Wis., the U.S. Geological Survey configured equivalent rain garden cells that were planted with regular turf grass (far cell) and native prairie grasses. Each cell received the same amount of rainwater coming off of a roof. Because of its longer roots, the prair…
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Roger Stoskopf
Roger H. Stoskopf is Director, Energy Solutions and Services at Crescent Electric Supply Company.
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Conner Creek Retention Basin
The Conner Creek Retention Treatment Basin (RTB) operates about 40 times a year during rain events to prevent untreated combined sewer overflows from entering the Detroit River. Successful operation of the RTB over the past five years has helped set the stage for neighboring wildlife project…
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Kristin Parineh
Kristin Parineh is sustainability planner in the Palo Alto Planning Department & Green Building Program.
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Autoclave Testing Program
Municipal solid waste travels on a conveyor into a rotating steam autoclave reaction vessel in a two-year testing program being conducted by the Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority in partnership with the USDA and Comprehensive Resources Recovery and Reuse (CR3), the company that develop…
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Jana Lynott
Jana Lynott is senior strategic policy advisor for AARP’s Transportation/Livable Communities Public Policy Institute.
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Sustainability Grants
This Google Map shows the locations of U.S. municipalities (in the lower 48) that have received Sustainable Communities Grants and Technical Assistance since the Partnership for Sustainable Communities was formed by HUD (blue), DOT (red) and EPA (green) in 2009. The yellow pins represent …
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Hope Springs Eternal
A sight both hopeful and poignant frequently seen in the Gulf Coast is a freestanding stoop still lovingly (or ironically) tended to by its owner. This property is about a block from the Gulf in Waveland, Miss. The home that stood here was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Brendan Reed
Brendan Reed is the environmental resource manager for the city of Chula Vista, Calif. He is responsible for the development of programs and policies dealing with energy management, water conservation, and global climate change for the city. As part of this effort, he coordinates a multi-…
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Passive House #1
The little red house at 1606 W. Railroad St. in Heidelberg, Pa., a suburb outside of Pittsburgh, is the first certified Passive House in Western Pennsylvania. Currently on the market as a designated affordable home, it cost $225,000 to construct, compared to $200,000 for a conventional on…
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M&T BANK CHAMBERSBURG
M&T Bank's new high-tech branch in Chambersburg, Pa. utilizes "green" technology and innovative architecture to greatly reduce energy consumption. One of the primary features is a colonnade with louver screens and a high canopy that wraps around two sides of the branch to reduce direct sunli…
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Lisa Petterson
Lisa Petterson, AIA, is a partner with Sera Architects of Portland, Ore.
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Jennifer Privette
Jennifer Privette is sustainability coordinator for the city of Newport News, Va.
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Donovan D. Rypkema
Donovan D. Rypkema is principal of PlaceEconomics, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate and economic development-consulting firm, specializing in services to public and non-profit sector clients.
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Susan Robinson
Susan Robinson, based in Seattle, is director of federal public affairs for Waste Management, Inc.
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Bryan Trussell
Bryan Trussell is a civil engineer in the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation, Wastewater Engineering Services Division, Systemwide Planning Support Group.
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Minneapolis Convention Center
Construction of the Minneapolis Convention Center's solar energy system involved a power purchase agreement with Best Power Int’l, LLC, a grant from Xcel Energy and other funding. With 2,613 solar panels, the system is the largest PV installation in Minnesota.
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