Other Places to Visit

WEB SITES:

Curb Pollution with a Rain Garden: Singing in the Runoff
http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/article/2007/03/singing-in-the-runoff.html#storycontinues

How to measure and plant your own raingarden
http://home.comcast.net/~irwin-acct/personal/index.html

Andropogon LTD, noted for Ecological Restoration and Design
www.andropogon.com/

Low Impact Development, raingardens, swales, etc. techniques which allow development to mimic natural patterns
www.lid-stormwater.net/

Roofscapes, Inc., builds custom Green Roofs which absorb and reuse 80% of rainfall, insulate buildings from noise, heat, cold, capture airborne nitrogen, create habitat, cool urban heat islands
www.roofmeadow.com

Porous Pavement - Materials costs are often higher for porous paving applications but this expense can usually be offset by the need for less land, piping and other materials
www.greenworks.tv/stormwater/porouspavement.htm

Cahill Associates - Environmental Consultants - Better Stormwater Management in the Urban Environment - Lancaster County Porous Paving Seminar, 2004
www.thcahill.com/pub.html

Oberlin College Ecological Design employed top innovators
www.ecocitycleveland.org/ecologicaldesign/ greenbuilding/oberlin_college.html

Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital
www.rmi.org/

The New Rules Project - Designing Rules As If Community Matters
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics
www.newrules.org/

Local Government Commission, Free Resources: Funding Opportunities for Local Governments, Newsletter innovation
www.lgc.org/freepub/energy/funding.html

Wes Jackson - The Genius of Place -The Land Institute founder, tapping the genius of the prairie in the design of agriculture
www.context.org/ICLIB/IC42/Jackson.htm

Project for Public Spaces (PPS) - Placemaking for Communities
What Makes a Successful Place? Why Public Spaces Fail
www.pps.org/gps/

Scenic Rivers Land Trust - See Earth and Waters Project, Alliance for Sustainable Communities' restoration projects: steep slope erosion and capture of construction site runoff
www.srlt.org/

PUBLICATIONS:

Stormwater | The Journal for Surface Water Quality, free publication
www.stormh2o.com/sw.html

In Business Magazine for sustainable enterprises and communities and BioCycle - Journal of Composting & Organics Recycling
www.jgpress.com/

YES! Magazine published by the Positive Futures Network, PO Box 10818, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-0818
www.yesmagazine.org/

American Planning Association - Browse articles back to January 1988, read free abstracts
www.planning.org/

BALLE - Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Building Economies for the Common Good
www.livingeconomies.org/BALLE/

When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten, review by Jim Nordgaard.
www.jimn.org/write/corprule.html

BEING IN PLACE:

Thomas Berry, a scholar and lover of the Earth ESSAYS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS A Profile of Thomas Berry
www.earthlight.org/mfoxontberry.html