Events Resilience Soil Stormwater 
The Environmental Blog
AUGUST 2, 2024
This initiative is part of China’s broader effort to create resilient and sustainable urban environments. The sponge city concept is an innovative urban planning and design approach aimed at enhancing a city’s resilience to climate change and managing urban water challenges. What is the Sponge City Concept?
Greenability Magazine
APRIL 13, 2021
This Earth Day will be bigger than ever, offering the public the opportunity to join events around the world as it will be mostly virtual again in response to COVID-19. Earth Day will be celebrated with live, interactive events in Kansas City and worldwide. Events are listed below by sponsoring organizations. Sunday, April 18.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Greenability Magazine
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Deep Roots KC and its partners will host this second annual event featuring keynote speakers: Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer and MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. Margo Farnsworth, author of Biomimicry and Business: How Companies are Using Nature’s Strategies to Succeed.
Greenability Magazine
MAY 10, 2021
Both a rain garden and bioswale retain or slow the movement of water from the property, decreasing stormwater runoff. Water leaving your property carries particles of soil and organic debris with it. Rain gardens and bioswales slow the movement allowing it to soak into the soil and reduce flash flooding issues.
Unsustainable
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
inches of runoff water, according to the project specs from the Florida Stormwater Associations 2018 Winter Conference. Beneath the soil beds are pipes and water storage containers to manage the runoff. The bioswales are designed to manage runoff and capture the initial 1.5
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
However, the farming sector can tackle micropollutants by minimising runoff through cover cropping and soil conservation, and optimising pesticide management to reduce leaching and emissions. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration.
Grist
MARCH 29, 2023
Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
78 
Let's personalize your content