Posts under Definitions Category
LEAD… what you need to know to stay protected!
Posted on August 22, 2011 In: Definitions, Environmental Health, Resources
by Taylor Daugherty WHEN did lead first come on the scene? Lead is a heavy metal that has some very attractive qualities: it is super malleable, but highly resistant to corrosion. So it was heavily used in pipes, buildings, etc. to protect from rust. Mixed into paint, lead helped paint dry faster, stay fresh longer, and resist the damaging effects more »
The difference between “green space” and “green infrastructure”
Posted on August 12, 2011 In: Definitions, Green Infrastructure, Planning, Sustainability
by Sandra Yu Found on the City of Lansing’s website for DesignLansing, its Comprehensive Plan process. What’s in a Name? “The term green infrastructure was selected to emphasize its difference from traditional conservation practices and the need to change several popular perceptions about green space planning and protection. Where-as green space is often viewed as something that is nice to more »
Ecosystem Benefits
Posted on August 2, 2011 In: Community Development, Definitions, Green Infrastructure, Sustainability
by Sandra Yu There is a landscape architect in town from Harvard, one of Toni Griffin’s students. I’ll have to sit and get her perspective on the Detroit Works Project, but in an email back-and-forth, she pointed me to the American Society of Landscape Architects 2009 project called “Guidelines and Benchmarks for Sustainable Sites.” It is modeled after LEED – more »
A great definition of Environmental Justice
Posted on July 28, 2011 In: Definitions, Environmental Justice, EPA, Events
Guy Williams, our CEO/President, and I went on a field trip with Jessica Yorko (Lansing City Councilmember and Ingham County Environmental Justice Coordinator) and Sandy Svoboda (Metro Times writer) yesterday to do an environmental justice mini-tour and to visit our green jobs training program over at the Wayne County Community College Eastern campus. I was amazed and happy about a more »
Land Ethic
Posted on July 1, 2011 In: Definitions, Environmental Justice, Land Use
by Sandra Yu The Hornbook Series text on land use law states that Minnesota legislature through its environmental legislation gave the land ethic of conservationist Aldo Leopold the force of law. “All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. his instincts prompt him to compete for more »
Sustainability – definitions and visions
Posted on June 8, 2011 In: Community Development, Definitions, Environmental Justice, Local Policy, Sustainability
I’m going to keep a running list of definitions I love. (There are so many!) Here’s one for today: “A sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy and resilient. It meets challenges through integrated solutions rather than through fragmented approaches that meet one of those goals at the expense of the others. And it takes a more »