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Biophilia and Biophilic Design: Incorporating Sustainability Into The Built Environment

Green Business Bureau

Biophilic urbanism is more capable of optimizing the health of a city in different ways such as improving the city environment, providing economic growth for the municipality through stormwater management, and nurturing the mental health of society.[6] Credit: Ginkgo Sustainability. References: [1] Fromm, E. Greenwich, CT. [2] 2] Wilson, E.

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Net-Zero Town Homes Benefit From Solar Garden Roof

Green Roof Technology

Their problem was stormwater management: Rules in Prince George’s County, Maryland, required them to detain the runoff from heavy rainstorms on-site, rather than divert it into municipal storm drains. ” The roof is also effective as a stormwater management system. “The solar green roof is designed to detain between 1.8

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New York Sustainability: Tax Credits, Grants and Green Funding

Green Business Bureau

The program was launched to beautify the city landscape, ease vehicle traffic, improve pedestrian traffic, facilitate the water-bearing capacity of the ground, and increase biodiversity. The paper reported green roofs cover less than 0.1% Energy Efficiency : Using less energy for water quality projects. The credit is equal to $0.1

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From golf to gardens: Houston’s new botanical garden opens

AGreenLiving

Garden supporters had to raise $20 million by the end of 2017 to claim the city-owned property. The staff’s 30-year master plan includes conserving water, promoting biodiversity and providing habitat for butterflies, birds and other wildlife. The garden has been built from the ground up.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

Northeast are especially at risk, and the region’s aging stormwater and sewage infrastructure only makes matters worse. million acres of exceptionally biodiverse land since 1985, and more than a million people have moved to Florida alone since 2018. Its cities have gobbled up more than 1.3 Virgin Islands.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . million residents. LinkedIn . Meg Wilcox.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. In 2017, Katie participated in EDF’s Climate Advocacy Training program and in 2018 was awarded EDF’s William K. Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo.