Featured First ‘Bayou Greenway Day’ highlights Houston’s waterways (Katherine Driessen – Houston Chronicle, 4/4/2015) “For the Houston Parks Board and city officials, the first-ever Bayou Greenway Day offered a glimpse of the 150-mile network of bike and cycling paths they hope will weave through Houston’s nine bayous by 2020. Voters approved a bond package in 2012 that will provide $100…
Featured HARC launches project to encourage more energy efficiency in buildings (Katie Haugland – HARC, 3/30/2015) “Texas ranks first among the states as the biggest commercial and residential energy consumer and is outpaced by only other five states per-capita energy consumption, according to federal statistics. At the same time, state policies and programs for energy efficiency receive just middling grades…
Featured In the garden with Urban Harvest: Stormwater management takes many forms in urban landscape (Chris LaChance – Houston Chronicle, 3/27/2015) “Detention ponds are required by developers when natural systems such as native prairies, wetlands, and woodlands are paved over to build roads, homes, parking lots and malls. They were designed as an attempt to make up for the natural…