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RainChangers: Big Impact – Low Cost – Aaron Clark

Above all else, this is the story of how to do what you can, where you can, when you can. Being a good environmental neighbor to our human and non-human neighbors isn't about being perfect, but it is about making it better than you found it as much as you reasonably can. Polluted runoff is…

Concrete-Free Slab on Grade Foundations – Josh Salinger

Concrete is the worlds second most used material behind water and this material alone accounts for almost 8% of the entire world's GHG emissions. This is even before considering the impacts the raw materials such as sand have to ecosystems and even crime (!) in certain parts of the world. There are ample reasons to…

My Green Roof 16 Years On – Michael Laurie

My Green Roof 16 years later and I am still hanging in there with it   I was on a team that proposed a green roof at the Department of Interior headquarters.  I read about green roofs and their benefits in slowing down stormwater, extending the life of roofs, and more.  I saw the green…