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Should Heat Be Legal?

View Web Version | Manage Your Communications Preferences Should Heat Be Legal? "We do not need a separate regulatory universe for heat. Heat can become part of building codes, landscape standards, street design, zoning, capital planning, public procurement, and development review. The pieces already exist. What is missing is the recognition that they are connected," writes Keenan Gibbons. | Read more Revamped Guide for Landscape Architects Offers New Ways to Achieve Zero Emissions by 2040 ASLA releases an updated version of its popular resource – Decarbonizing Specifications: A Guide for Landscape Architects, Specifiers, and Industry Partners – with ten new and revised sections. | Read more The Rights of Nature: How Landscape Architects Can Support a Global Movement “The Rights of Nature movement is an emerging body of law for protecting, restoring, and stabilizing the functional interdependency of Earth’s life and life support systems,” explained Pamela Martin, | Read more Climate & Biodiversity News (August 2026) According to Governing magazine, a recent study by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the San Francisco Estuary Institute found small rain gardens not only successfully captured stormwater but also reduced 21 types of contaminants from entering the Bay, most by more than 90 percent. | Read more ASLA 2026 Explores Action in Design The ASLA 2026 Conference on Landscape Architecture in Los Angeles, September 16-18, brings together the field’s leading voices on climate & biodiversity action. Spend three days in Los Angeles learning strategies you can use in your work. | Read more Go to THE DIRT 636 Eye Street NW Washington, D.C. 20001-3736 202-898-2444 info@asla.org | dirt.asla.org © 2025 American Society of Landscape Architects. All rights reserved Manage Your Communications Preferences | Unsubscribe