By Mike Everhart
In 2013, Club Motorsports began construction of a private race track at the southern edge of the New Hampshire White Mountains. They designed the track with the idea in mind of a ‘country club’ for car enthusiasts.
Stormwater Management
Merging Nature-Based Solutions and Recreational Areas
By Leah Wallner
The Town of Wellesley makes updates to improve a girls’ softball field, mitigate stormwater runoff and create a habitat for wildlife. The field was bordered by a busy street, an aqueduct, a neighborhood, and mature trees which provided many landscape challenges.
Green Stormwater Infrastructure
By Anna Shipp
Our current economic downturn caused by COVID-19 and ongoing social and climate crisis demands a transformational change in everything from business practices to public policy, including how we approach stormwater management. In rebuilding our economy, the government must prioritize green stormwater infrastructure because it’s a tool that fosters job growth, public health, community well-being, and resiliency.
More Than a Rain Garden: Green Infrastructure Addresses Environmental Problems Across Scales
by Kate Cholakis and Seth Charde
Green infrastructure is trending, achieving buzzword status within the fields of civil engineering, landscape architecture, city planning, and climate resiliency. Professionals in these fields might use this term to describe a rain garden, green roof, or plant-based sewage treatment plant. The term might also be used to describe a forested city park, restored urban stream corridor, or expanded coastal marsh. These strategies share the connecting thread of water management.
Growing Green Infrastructure
by Leslie Nemo
As cities’ interest in green infrastructure grows, so does the need to develop strategies and resources to maintain it. Urban projects designed to manage stormwater promise huge benefits as climate changes — but they also demand a new kind of care.
The Art of Integrating Rainwater
by Steven Torgerson
Both a precious resource and a damaging event, rain is a natural part of the earth’s ecological system. Although we can’t control the rain, we can help direct rainwater once it hits the earth. And direct it in ways both practical and beautiful.
MOSS: Providing Year-round Green Solutions for Erosion Control
by Annie (Mossin’ Annie) Martin
Mosses are far more than an appealing green ground cover; these verdant miniature plants can provide solutions for challenging erosion issues in today’s landscapes. In this case study, moss species, intentionally planted, are the entire stormwater solution.
Greening Greenfield
by Julie Snell and Michele Adams
Albert Greenfield Elementary School in Philadelphia was the first school in the district to implement a “green schoolyard.” This project was an early example of how public landscapes in the city can offer significant connections to the natural world, benefiting students and the community.
Sustainable Stormwater Using Bioretention: Engineering Better Water Quality
by Allen P. Davis As (sub)urban growth continues to consume undeveloped land, stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces grows in importance as a contributor to water resources degradation. Impervious surface creates surface runoff at the expense of infiltration and evapotranspiration. These increased stormwater flows and volumes can erode streams and rivers causing significant damage to property,…
Deluge and Drought: a Landscape Designed for Rainwater Management
by Julia Bunn The summer of 2018 here in the Midwest (Chicago area), regional weather conditions had a huge effect on installation of a landscape on the property of one client. I’ve anchored my story in the unfolding of project events in relationship to the rain. After all, the main purpose of the entire landscape…
Water Wise & Whimsy
by Soleil Tranquilli After years of not quite getting around to designing my own landscape, I finally took the first steps toward a complete renovation in 2009. Eight years later, the renovated yard demonstrates our priorities: water conservation, use of predominantly native plants, reuse of materials, and support of wildlife, especially of pollinators. My home…
Artful Rainwater Design: A Case Study
by Stuart Echols and Eliza Pennypacker From Artful Rainwater Design by Stuart Echols and Eliza Pennypacker. Copyright©2015 by the authors. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, Arizona – A Case Study
