Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel<\/a>
Seattle | MIG<\/p>\n\n\n\nClimate change and environmentally-insensitive development in the Pacific Northwest are exacerbating negative impacts on salmon. Grassroots environmental organizations sought to daylight the piped Thornton Creek. A new water quality channel was designed by landscape architects at MIG to clean stormwater runoff from 680 surrounding acres before the water flows into the South Fork of the salmon-bearing Thornton Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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New projects were submitted by ASLA members through an open call ASLA released in 2019. In partnership with the ASLA Climate Action Committee, projects were selected to represent a range of U.S. regions, scales (from residential to county-wide masterplans) and firm types.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2017, ASLA convened a Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change & Resilience, which resulted in a report: Smart Policies for a Changing Climate and a series of lectures and educational sessions at built environment conferences. In 2019, an exhibition outlining 20 cases that exemplify the policy goals outlined in the report opened at the ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture in Washington, D.C., and a companion website was launched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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