Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition
Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition

Author: Kim Sorvig

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 161091810X

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Basic principles : "Sustainability" in context -- Principle 1 : Keep healthy sites healthy -- Principle 2 : Heal injured soils and sites -- Principle 3 : Favor living, flexible materials -- Principle 4 : Respect the waters of life -- Principle 5 : Pave less -- Principle 6 : Consider origin and fate of materials -- Principle 7 : Know the costs of energy over time -- Principle 8 : Celebrate light, respect darkness -- Principle 9 : Quietly defend silence -- Principle 10 : Maintain to sustain -- Principle 11 : Demonstrate performance, learn from failure -- Sustaining principles, evolving efforts.

The Greening Pictorial System of Landscape Gardening;
The Greening Pictorial System of Landscape Gardening;

Author: Charles Earnest 1858- Greening

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020480065

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This book is a practical guide to landscape gardening, focusing on the Greening Pictorial System - a method of designing landscapes using pictorial diagrams. Greening's system aims to simplify the planning and execution of landscape designs, while creating beautiful and natural-looking environments. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in landscape design and gardening. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.