Thursday, June 30, 2011
A wet pond at Central Market in Austin, Texas. City of Austin photo.
The cityscape of the future will be much greener and more useful, if landscape ecologists have their way. Even business properties in tomorrow’s deliberately planned urban landscape will use nature’s full potential to provide elegant solutions for a host of urban problems — among them energy waste, excess carbon, the heat-island effect, and polluted air and water. And even better, landscape ecosystems can actually help businesses save money.
Read more on cityscapes at Texas Enterprise.org.
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Tags: cityscape, ecology, ecosystem, green building, Landscape, LEEDS
By Tim Green
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