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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 Sustainable Sites Initiative Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks – Draft 2008 is now available! Public comments are accepted until January 20, 2009. Click here to download the report.

Sustainable Facts

Approximately 30% of the water used daily by a family of four in the U.S. is devoted to outdoor uses such as watering lawns and gardens, and landscape irrigation uses more than 7 billion gallons per day nationwide.
  ~ U.S. EPA, 2007

SUSTAINABLE SITES CASE STUDY:
Queens Botanical Garden Visitor and Administration Center Building and Landscape
Consistent with the vision and philosophy of Queens Botanical Garden (QBG), the decision was made to develop a high performance green facility that would serve to demonstrate sustainable solutions to a broad audience. The QBG redevelopment ...
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