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UVA Lecture - Badlands

March 22
Charlottesville

Julie Bargmann, UVA Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, will present "Badlands," a lecture about her design work at DIRT Studio on the post-industrial American landscape. This lecture is sponsored by the Student Chapter of the ASLA and is an open to VA ASLA members and the general public.

Stormwater Workshop: From the Rooftop to the Bay

March 9-11, 2010
Staunton, VA

Registration deadline is February 5, 2010. Designed for public and private sector stormwater professionals to strengthen design, construction, and maintenance skills for a wide range of innovative stormwater practices; Understand and apply a new generation of stormwater regulations in the Chesapeake Bay states; Exchange ideas with other stormwater professionals.

Concurrent "tracks" will be available. Registration is limited to 150 participants and includes: instruction, training materials, Continuing Education Units (if requested), etc. Visit http://www.cwp.org/Calendar/RTB10/RTB10.html for more information and for registration and payment information. Sponsored by the Center for Watershed Protection.

New Sustainable Sites Guidelines Released

To download a PDF of the new Sustainable Sites Initiative guidelines go to www.sustainablesites.org/report/.

For over four years LASN has been reporting on the progress of the Sustainable Sites Initiative, an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the U.S. Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance standards for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices.