Spongy Parking Lots and Sustainability v1 | EarthSayers.tv
- 9 years ago
It takes a drought sometimes for a fresh approach to catch on.
An NPR Morning Edition program (January 2015) was about the urban planners in Los Angeles seeing the need to view the city as a sponge, absorbing water, rather than corralling, then whisking it away down the drain and into our waterways. “Engineering water into submission” is how they talked about it on NPR and it dates back to the Romans and aqueducts. It also is how I got to the idea of retrofitting existing surface parking lots to be spongy ones as part of my neighborhood work as a sustainability advocate.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1NW3mxq
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An NPR Morning Edition program (January 2015) was about the urban planners in Los Angeles seeing the need to view the city as a sponge, absorbing water, rather than corralling, then whisking it away down the drain and into our waterways. “Engineering water into submission” is how they talked about it on NPR and it dates back to the Romans and aqueducts. It also is how I got to the idea of retrofitting existing surface parking lots to be spongy ones as part of my neighborhood work as a sustainability advocate.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1NW3mxq
? 2015 | 3BL Media/EarthSayers.tv | All Rights Reserved