Sustainable landscape construction : a guide to green building outdoors

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Front Cover About Island Press Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface to the Third Edition Authorship Changes Why a New Edition? What's New in This Edition? Who Should Use This Book? How to Use This Book Finding Landscapes Along the Information Highway Acknowlegments Contacting the Author Basic Principles: "Sustainability" in Context What Is Sustainability? Politics, Ethics, and Semantics Sustainability: Convention, Tradition, and Innovation Landscapes Against Climate Change Sustainability, Substance, and Style Rethinking Special Landscape Types for Sustainability Principle 1: Keep Healthy Sites Healthy What Is a Healthy Site? Take a Role in "Pre-construction" Do Your Homework First: Knowledge as Sustainability Avoid Survey Damage Minimize Utility Damage Physically Protect Sites During Construction Preserve Healthy Topsoil Save Every Possible Existing Tree- Even Just One Use Appropriate Construction Machinery Related Design and Planning Issues Coordination and Follow-up Principle 2: Heal Injured Soils and Sites Turn Wastelands to Gardens Balance the Environmental Costs and Benefits of Restoration Involve the Community in Site Restoration Make a Virtue of the Necessity for Landfills Recognize Agricultural and Rural Restoration Restore Landscapes Structurally Restore Damaged Soils On-site Restore Regionally Appropriate Vegetation Restore Forests and Coexist with Wildfire Principle 3: Favor Living, Flexible Materials Highlight the Benefits of Vegetation Hold Slopes in Place with BTEC-- Biotechnical Erosion Control Make Vertical Structures "Habitat-able" with Greenwalls Turn Barren Roof Spaces into "Greenroofs" Construct for and with Plants Evaluate Turf: The Green, the Bad, and the Ugly Count on Plants to Sustain Principle 4: Respect the Waters of Life Work with the Site's Water Regime Understand, Protect, and Restore Natural Wetlands Know the Issues Before Working in or near Wetlands Restore Rivers and Streams to Full Health Collect and Conserve Water Irrigate Intelligently and Sparingly Reuse Graywater Purify Water at Every Opportunity Test Modern Hardware for Cleaner Piped Stormwater Let Constructed Wetlands Treat Water Principle 5: Pave Less Plan and Design to Reduce Paving Take Advantage of Context-sensitive Road Design Use Techniques That Reduce Runoff from Paving Use Porous Paving Materials Cool Asphalt with Planting and Albedo Principle 6: Consider Origin and Fate of Materials The Devil is in the Details Recall Some Simple Guidelines Let Reuse Be Re-inspiration Use Local, Salvaged, or Recycled Materials Evaluate Environmental Costs When Choosing Suppliers Use Sustainably Harvested Renewables Use Nonrenewable Materials Sparingly Avoid Toxic Materials Know General Toxicity Issues by Material Type Avoid Three Controversial Materials Prioritize Hazard-reductions Efforts Principle 7: Know the Costs of Energy over Time Understand How Landscape Energy Use Is Different Manage Energy for Machines, Tools, and Labor Embodied Energy-- Why Do We Care? Use Life-cycle Costing to Justify Sustainable Design Apply Guidelines for Landscape Energy Conservation Principle 8: Celebrate Light, Respect Darkness Respect the Need for Darkness Talk Lighting-- a Brief Glossary Use Lighting Efficiently Try Low-voltage Lighting for Flexibility Use Solar Lighting Evaluate Lamp Performance Join the LED Lighting Revolution Priciple 9: Quietly Defend Silence Understand Noise Terminology Be Aware of Damaged Caused by Noise Don't Rely on Noise "Barriers" in Most Landscapes Try Noise-absorbing Materials Modify Pavement to Reduce Road Noise Make Noise Invisible Fight Noise with Noise Push for Quieter Landscape Tools Protect "Soundscapes" Through Planning Principle 10: Maintain to Sustain Know the Resource Costs of Conventional Landscape M aintenance Plan for Maintainable Spaces Expect Change Evauate Bio-based Maintenance Products with Care Apply Intregrated Pest Management Use Fertilizers Sustainably Don't Waste On-site Resources Consider Alernatives to Mowing Adapt to Using Native Plants Manage Large Public Landscapes Holistically, Too Evaluate Life-cycle Costs of Maintenance Options Use Innovative Funding Coordinate Design, Construction, and Maintenance Principle 11: Demonstrate Performance, Learn from Failure Anatomy of a Certification System Landscape Certification Programs Better Measures Landscape Forensics and Learning (or Not) from Failure Sustaining Principles, Evolving Efforts Learning from the Landscape: Themes and Strategies Green Education in Design and Construction Landscapes as Public Environmental Education Thinking One Hundred Years Ahead Notes Index IP Board of Directors