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Storm Water Management

To some, it’s a four-letter word for something that costs money and takes up space.  To others, it’s a way to help reduce our impacts on the environment, and restore hydrologic cycles.  To everyone, it’s something that needs to be thought through, worked out, and designed before getting plan approval...

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Stop Treating Soil Like Dirt!

Matt Power, Editor-In-Chief of Green Builder Magazinewrites in the March 2012 issue about how typical construction practices destroy soil ecosystems during development of new buildings.  Stripping and mass grading, “attack(ing) a piece of land the way a three-year-old goes after a lump of Play-Doh”, typically divides the soil into one...

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