April 25th, 2012
Save it! is a campaign sponsored by the City of Lancaster in partnership with LIVE Green. This Web site is intended to serve as a community resource to help residents and commercial property owners conserve water, prevent pollution and encourage efforts to “soak it up” using various forms of green infrastructure. Information is presented along a continuum of effort from low to high in terms of time and cost. Everyone can do something to “save it.” Please visit the site and share it with your neighbors and friends. www.saveitlancaster.org
January 19th, 2012
Lancaster Cities Green Infrastructure program is featured in this NPR segment that aired in Baltimore during November 2011.
Big Green Sponge (listen to the 4 minute segment here)
Cities and towns across the Chesapeake Bay region are struggling with how to reduce stormwater runoff pollution and meet new federal pollution limits. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is proposing an interesting idea: to rebuild itself into a “big green sponge” to absorb rainwater. Questions remain, however, about whether building water-permeable parking lots, alleys, and parks will solve the city’s chronic sewage overflow problems.
January 17th, 2012
The Lancaster County Conservation District and LIVE Green announce the Lancaster County Treevitalize Metros program. TreeVitalize Metros has a goal of increasing tree canopy cover in the metropolitan areas of Pennsylvania. The program provides technical assistance and matching grants to communities for tree-planting to help establish urban forest management programs. For more information click here.
December 27th, 2011
Cities and towns across the region are wrestling with how to reduce stormwater runoff and meet new pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an artsy and hip little city surrounded by Amish farmland, has come up with an interesting ideas….click here to read the article published in the Chesapeake Bay Foundations Bay Daily.
Tellus 360 – 24 E King St. – green roof
December 27th, 2011
Lancaster city is moving ahead with projects aimed at keeping 1 million gallons of stormwater from flowing into sewer system. click here to read the full article from the Lancaster Intell.
December 27th, 2011
City’s plan: Thousands of new trees to meet clean water rules for Bay
Click here to read full article in Lancaster Intell
August 26th, 2011
Next ComposTumbler workshop is Saturday September 17 from 9-11am at the Lancaster Environmental Center in the County Park, Click here for more details (PDF).
April 8th, 2011
Join building owners and local contractors from the building design and landscape industries for a comprehensive workshop providing information on green roof technologies currently on the market and how your business can participate in this emerging field. For all the details click here (PDF).
February 6th, 2011
If you work on row homes, this workshop is for you ! Row homes are charming, but they also have particular structural details that can make performing quality improvements to comfort and energy efficiency challenging.
Learn how to stop drafts, increase conformt, reduce energy sue and improve indoor air quality using proven techniqies. click here (PDF) for more details and for information about how to register.
January 19th, 2011
Join the Lancaster County Clean Water Initiative
for its new Water Quality Series.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
7:30-11:30am
Farm and Home Center
For landscape architects, landscape designers, engineers, planners and code officials, site contractors, developers, builders, and real estate professionals.
Topics revolve around “best practices” ideas in support of the County watershed plans oriented to green infrastructure.
For more information click here (PDF)
January 19th, 2011
Woods in Your Backyard Workshop
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Lancaster Farm and Home Center, Lancaster, PA
Do you have woods in your backyard? Live near a forest? Would you like to reduce lawn mowing and invite wildlife to your suburban lot? Creating a yardscape that welcomes wildlife, reduces mowing, and creates a backyard forest and learning the wildlife of this region will help you understand the importance of planning and management.
For more information click here (PDF)
January 5th, 2011
LIVE Green is proud to co-sponsor this upcoming workshop for lawn care professionals, building managers, golf course managers, and nursery professionals. Topics will include: sustainable lawn care practices; rain gardens, meadows and turf; fertilizers; native landscaping and much more.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011; 7:30am – 11:30am
click here for more details
