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Green Girl Land Development Solutions is a sustainability consulting business that helps private and public land development professionals identify opportunities and constraints to integrate more sustainability into site design and construction. The firm was specifically started to help you - the developer, engineer, architect, landscape architect, contractor, maintenance staff, planner, scientist, and others - cut to the chase through an open-source business model that provides you with the information and tools you need to find the best solutions for your particular site and stakeholder conditions.
Services Offered: I can help you implement over 200 best management practices during the master planning, design, construction, and operations & maintenance phases of your project. If I don't know something or can't design it, I'll point you to the person on your team who should know or help you find who you need. I help you make good decisions about where to put your money with decision making documents and resources your whole team can use to build up their library of BMP resources for their deliverables.
Business Model: Green Girl is a one-woman (certified WBE) firm that operates like a temporary agency, except with a background in sustainable civil engineering and land development. I'm knowledgeable and fast and happy to jump in, give you just what you need, and get out. I can be the extra helping hand and fresh perspective that it takes to create as green a project as we can really afford.
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 This is the community building of the Oleson Woods Apartments, which is an affordable housing project chock full of sustainable practices so it can't be THAT expensive! (Click here for a 2007 EPA report on the costs savings of low impact over conventional developments!)
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Informed Advice: I have 14 years experience creating green sites for green buildings and spend a lot of time in professional development keeping up on the latest science and approaches. You won't get that from your average project manager trying to get your permits issued in a hurry. My language will be simple and straightforward and my technical assistance will be provided in an easy to incorporate formats.
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"Here she comes to save the stream!" |
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Postcard from NW Sunday Parkways, Portland, OR
Sunday Parkways is a fun, family-oriented event where 7 miles of roadways are blocked off to traffic so we bike, walk, skateboard, rollerblade, etc through the neighborhoods. Music, creative arts booths, food vendors, bike repair folks and more are at parks along the way. There are a few of these held each summer in different "quadrants" (there are more than four, but that's what we call 'em anyway) of the city.
For the NW Sunday Parkways held yesterday, I dressed up as stormwater superhero "Stormy Sue-er" (no, that's not my hair, Stormy had to be red-head!) to raise awareness about stream health. The best practices bookmark to the left is adapted from the to others I've made previously to include simple things anybody -- including kids -- can do to protect stream health:
- Walk, bike, skateboard or bus instead of using a car.
- Plant a tree.
- Pick up pet waste & trash (including cigarette butts,
they’re not biodegradable!).
- Keep soil off streets & driveways and sweep it up if you see it.
- Don’t dump stuff in drains.
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| Company Overview |
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Green Girl Land Development Solutions is a sustainability consulting firm that provides mentoring, training, and technical assistance to land development professionals and agencies. Armed with the latest science and thinking about best management practices, Green Girl evaluates the opportunities and constraints of not only the physical site, but also the community impacts and economic realities – essentially, providing project-based teaching to incorporate the triple bottom line into everyday thinking and practice. Green Girl offers expertise from the very early stages of planning to the late stages of construction in BMPs related to site design, demolition, grading and erosion control, utility design, stormwater management, and materials choices for both private and public infrastructure. |
| Green Girl Mission Statement ` |
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To reduce the impact of land development by assisting land development teams in the application of sustainable site design principles. |
| Green Girl Core Values |
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Land development and its associated buildings have a tremendous impact on natural resources, both on- and off-site. Seventy-one percent of our energy and 12% of our water on average is used to construct, operate, and maintain American buildings annually. These processes comprise 39% of our CO2 emissions and 65% of our waste stream. In addition, conventional land design and construction practices typically destroy biodiversity; contaminate the air, water, and land; and increase greenhouse gas emissions directly on-site to impact off-site resources even further.
We cannot go for a few weeks without food, a few days without water, or a few minutes without air - these are the basis of survival and represent basic rights for all. Clean land, water, and air should not be sacrificed for the creation of shelter. |
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This web site was designed with a black background and white text because a rumor was spread by Blackle that it reduced greenhouse gas emissions, but that turned out to be a big fat lie debunked by actual experimentation AND... people had trouble reading my website, so I changed it to white. It's still hosted by Dreamhost, a carbon neutral company. Please consider the environment when printing this or mailing me things or traveling to see me for a meeting or... ohhhh, just do your best and change your practices when you learn something new.