The ASLA 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 new initiative is similar to LEED accreditation but it focuses on the site, which is not a big focus in current green building/development accreditation programs.

Sherwood is involved in several current projects that have submitted applications for the 2-year pilot program. We will be notified in late April whether these projects have been accepted and will of course keep you apprised as to what happens. Until then we encourage you to learn more about the program.

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