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

Sustainable Facts

Yard and landscape trimmings contribute approximately 32 million tons to the municipal waste stream, representing more than 13 percent of total municipal waste in the United States.
  ~ U.S. EPA, 2006

SUSTAINABLE SITES CASE STUDY:
Rehabilitation of Washington’s Headquarters at Valley Forge
General George Washington made his headquarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania during the Winter Encampment of 1777 and 1778. The historic headquarters building and surrounding area is now part of the Valley Forge National Historical Park wh...
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