In this feature, an area in southern Ontario is reviewed to illustrate the important collaboration between ecologists and landscape architects to produce ecologically-informed landscape plans that can increase the biodiversity of the site, among other benefits. The project priorities are to retain ecology, restore habitats, replace habitats, and to recover species at risk.

Learn about GRHC's new Installation and Maintenance training and certification, developed over 3 years by an expert committee.

The Landscape Architecture Foundation has released IGNITE, a scholarship-internship-mentorship program for Black, Indigenous and people of color to increase their participation as Landscape Architecture professionals.  

The performance requirements of the soil/growing medium on rooftop farms are complex. Learn more about the different requirements from the experts at rooflite.  

Here is the most comprehensive list of rooftop and urban farms in North America ever assembled.

This article describes the detailed methods used to conduct a Green Infrastructure Charrette at CitiesAlive in Philadelphia in order to create a vision of a healthier, more sustainable community using Green Infrastructure and conduct a cost/benefit analysis of the proposals.

Come up to speed on the literature surrounding mycorrhizae and green roof plants and learn about their performance enhancing mutualistic relationships and what you can do to encourage them.

New scientific evidence suggests the need to add to the 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design. This article by William Browning and Catherine Ryan of Terrapin Bright Green explains what it means to experience Awe in the built environment through biophilic design and provides multiple of examples from architecture and nature.

Learn about the many benefits of creatively using gabion baskets in your landscape designs from improved waste material management to creating new opportunities to support biodiversity.

This article explores the important role of sound in our evolution and how incorporating soundscaping into our designs can result in healthier, more productive building occupants, taking biophilic design to another level.

This article reviews some of the challenges of conducting Electronic Leak Detection for Quality Assurance of membranes, and presents some of the new standards and innovative new products that facilitate greater accuracy of the results.

Biophilic Holism is the application of biophilic design principles in a holistic or integrated way, as exemplified by this article on the magical nature of river camps in New Orleans.

For forty years Herbert Dreiseitl has created beautiful integrated Blue/Green Infrastructure projects around the world. Here he reflects upon his work and the need for greater changes to make cities healthier for their citizens, more resilient to climate change and more moliveable.

Biodiversity should not be viewed as a project afterthought but should be at the forefront of all city and project planning. Green roofs should be as biodiverse as possible given project constraints.