GreenScaping and Sustainable Sites
 

EZ-FLO supports easier ways to have a greener, healthier landscape using sustainable site practices.  Using EZ-FLO means you can cut down on fertilizer used and fertilizer runoff.  You also save water.  And you can reduce or eliminate potential toxic herbicides and pesticides from your landscape without sacrificing the look and quality that you want!

Please join with us in supporting both the Environmental Protection Agency's "GreenScapes Alliance Program" and the "Sustainable Sites Initiative", a partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden in their endeavors.


    

GreenScaping

EZ-FLO's products and corporate focus aligns very closely with the EPA's GreenScaping Initiative. EZ-FLO belongs to the EPA's GreenScapes Alliance Program to help preserve natural resources and prevent waste and pollution by encouraging companies, government agencies, and other entities to make more holistic decisions about the use of the land, water, pesticides, and energy. 

 

 

 

Using EZ-FLO Fertilizing Systems on landscapes:

  • Virtually eliminates fertilizer runoff

  • Reduces fertilizer used (70-90%)

  • Saves water (20-50%)

  • Reduces the need for herbicides and pesticides
     

To see the Environmental benefits you get from EZ-FLO, use the pulldown menus at the top of this page or click on this link.  Environmental Benefits



Sustainable Sites™ Initiative

"Site design can be improved to protect and regenerate the landscape’s ability to regulate the climate, clean air and water, and improve our quality of life." - Sustainable Sites Initiative

There are standards for the building of sustainable (green) buildings under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Program, but up until now, there are no meaningful standards in LEED to guide the building of sustainable landscapes.  But that's about to change!

The Sustainable Sites Initiative www.sustainablesites.org  is an interdisciplinary partnership between the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the United States Botanic Garden and a diverse group of stakeholder organizations to develop guidelines and standards for landscape sustainability. The motivation behind this initiative stems from the desire to protect and enhance the ability of landscapes to provide services such as climate regulation, clean air and water, and improved quality of life. Sustainable Sites™ is a cooperative effort with the intention of supplementing existing green building and landscape guidelines as well as becoming a stand-alone tool for site sustainability.

LEED has recognized that it does not adequately address sustainable landscapes in its guidelines and the US Green Building Council will be adopting the guidelines developed by the Sustainable Sites Initiative in further iterations of LEED.

To download the Preliminary Report that is open for public comment, click here.

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