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The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary effort
by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden
to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction
and maintenance practices.

The nation’s first rating system for sustainable landscapes is available for download. Click here to learn more.

Sustainable Facts

Sediment runoff rates from construction sites can be up to 20 times greater than agricultural sediment loss rates and 1,000 to 2,000 greater than those of forested lands.
  ~ U.S. EPA, 2005

SUSTAINABLE SITES CASE STUDY:
Archer-McNamara Blitz Build
The Archer - McNamara Blitz Build project, principally sponsored by Detroit's Habitat for Humanity affiliate, consisted of building twenty new homes in six days (June 22-28, 1997).  Design of the site was greatly dictated...
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