Low Impact Development (LID) Urban Design Tools Website

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Low Impact Development (LID) Urban Design Tools Website

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The site provides watershed managers with a new set of tools and techniques that can be used to meet regulatory and receiving water protection program goals for urban retrofits, re-development projects, and new development sites. LID technology is an alternative comprehensive approach to stormwater management. It can be used to address a wide range of Wet Weather Flow (WWF) issues, including Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs), National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Stormwater Phase II permits, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) permits, Nonpoint Source Program goals, and other Water Quality Standards.

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Low Impact Development (LID)

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Low Impact Development (LID)

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This is an U.S. EPA site about Low Impact Development. LID is an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible. LID employs principles such as preserving and recreating natural landscape features, minimizing effective imperviousness to create functional and appealing site drainage that treat stormwater as a resource rather than a waste product. There are many practices that have been used to adhere to these principles such as bioretention facilities, rain gardens, vegetated rooftops, rain barrels, and permeable pavements. By implementing LID principles and practices, water can be managed in a way that reduces the impact of built areas and promotes the natural movement of water within an ecosystem or watershed. Applied on a broad scale, LID can maintain or restore a watershed's hydrologic and ecological functions. LID has been characterized as a sustainable stormwater practice by the Water Environment Research Foundation and others.

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Low Impact Hydropower Institute

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Low Impact Hydropower Institute

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The Low Impact Hydropower Institute (LIHI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing the impacts of hydropower generation through the certification of hydropower projects that have avoided or reduced their environmental impacts pursuant to the Low Impact Hydropower Institute’s criteria. There are thousands of hydropower dams in the United States located on many of our most important rivers and streams. These dams can create pollution-free energy, but they can also produce significant adverse impacts on fish and wildlife and other resources.

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Low Impact Development Center

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Low Impact Development Center

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A non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Low Impact Development technology. Low Impact Development is a new, comprehensive land planning and engineering design approach with a goal of maintaining and enhancing the pre-development hydrologic regime of urban and developing watersheds. The Low Impact Development Center was established to develop and provide information to individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the environment and our water resources through proper site design techniques that replicate pre-existing hydrologic site conditions.

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Low impact living initiative

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Low impact living initiative

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Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun and save money.

They have an online forum, offer a long list of books, offer courses, etc, related to low impact living.

Low-impact living is a way of behaving and thinking that aims to reduce our impact on the ecology of our planet, on resources and on each other.

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Low Impact Housing

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Low Impact Housing

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Their goal is to identify and document outstanding examples low energy, low environmental impact housing. The survey is open to the full range of housing forms from single detached to multi-unit projects, community and subdivision developments, from owner-built to custom-designed demonstration projects.

Apparently it is a questionnaire style survey about different low impact housing projects.

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New Society Publishers

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New Society Publishers

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New Society Publishers - the activist publisher focused on solutions and social change. Our Books are tools to Build a New Society. They help you to know the talk, and walk the talk. New Society Publishers' mission is to publish books that contribute in fundamental ways to building an ecologically sustainable and just society, and to do so with the least possible impact on the environment, in a manner that models this vision. They walk the talk in several ways like printing on forest-friendly paper.

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