The excellent Green Building 101 series continues today on Inhabitat.
Nicki Mellado and Kyle Martin have done a splendid job of distilling the dense wording of the LEED standards into easily understandable text that clearly conveys the spirit of LEED and sustainability in building.
This week they look further into sites and site planning and they give us five key measures that can be taken to make a site more sustainable. They are 1. keep the land as close as possible to how it was, 2. use local vegetation, 3. shade, shade, shade, 4. manage water run off, and 5. avoid pesticides, consider instead using organic methods.
