You may recall we wrote about the ASLA Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) last month. Today we are pleased to report that SITES has announced the selection of three Sherwood Projects to be among the first landscapes to participate in a new program testing the nation’s first rating system for green landscape design, construction and maintenance.

The three projects – Penn Treaty Park, Boeddeker Park and Meadow Residence in Santa Cruz – will join more than 150 other projects from 34 states as well as from Canada, Iceland and Spain as part of an international pilot project program to evaluate the new SITES rating system for sustainable landscapes, with and without buildings. Sustainable landscapes include clean water, reduce pollution and restore habitats, while providing significant economic and social benefits to land owners and municipalities.

SITES, a partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the United States Botanic Garden, selected these Sherwood projects based on their extensive environmentally friendly elements. Our projects join the Smithsonian Institution’s African American History & Culture museum, a New Orleans’ project to absorb storm water on the streets of the Lower Ninth Ward flooded during Hurricane Katrina, and other pilot projects that include academic and corporate campuses, public parks with hundreds of acres, transportation corridors and private residences of less than one acre.

We are pleased to have been selected and proud to be a part of the ASLA Sustainable Sites Initiative!

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