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Sustainability: Environment articles

  • Building a Green Roof to promote environmental responsibility
  • Aug 2012
  • Students and public works collaborate to keep one small city (and the rest of the world) clean
  • Aug 2012
  • APWA announces the 2012 Public Works Projects of the Year
  • Jul 2012
  • Rebuilding our nation's infrastructure: a golden opportunity for civil engineering
  • Sep 2009
  • The Pineywoods Mitigation Bank
  • Sep 2009
  • Fayetteville's biodiesel experience
  • Aug 2009
  • Testing hydrogen generators to boost fuel efficiency
  • Aug 2009
  • City of Beloit, Wisconsin: Homegrown experiment on its way to saving city dollars
  • Aug 2009
  • Hoover's police cars are fueling America's future
  • Aug 2009
  • Sustainability practices: We need to set the standard
  • Apr 2009
  • Climate change and preparedness planning
  • Jan 2009
  • Washington Insight
  • Jun 2008
  • International Idea Exchange
  • Jun 2008
  • President's Message
  • Apr 2008
  • Restoration of historic regional parks lays groundwork for Pittsburgh's Green Web
  • Apr 2008
  • Environmental Due Diligence
  • Mar 2008
  • Landfills as an economic resource
  • Sep 2007
  • Clean Roads to Clean Air
  • Sep 2007
  • Implementation of an Electronic Permitting System (a.k.a. Mission Impossible?)
  • Sep 2007
  • Wildlife Action Plans: A new tool for utilities
  • Sep 2007
  • Twenty tips to combat global warming for public works professionals
  • Aug 2007
  • Main Street Bridge: Naperville, Illinois
  • Jul 2007
  • Washington Insight
  • Apr 2007
  • International Idea Exchange
  • Apr 2007
  • Technical Committee News
  • Mar 2007
  • Biomass and alternative energy in St. Paul
  • Mar 2007
  • Managing water resource investments for the next generation
  • Feb 2007
  • Washington Insight
  • Dec 2006
  • Municipalities take the LEED
  • Sep 2006
  • Innovative parking garage boasts a number of "firsts"
  • Sep 2006
  • Integrating Context-Sensitive Solutions into your transportation program
  • Sep 2006
  • Clean Diesel: Funding opportunities for cleaning your fleet and community
  • Aug 2006
  • Nitrogen tire inflation, a worthwhile alternative
  • Aug 2006
  • A complete remodeling of our urban fabric
  • Jul 2006
  • Project Memorandum Writer: A new way to do environmental review
  • Jun 2006
  • Constructing a new Department of Public Works Field Headquarters
  • Apr 2006
  • President's Message
  • Mar 2006
  • Washington Insight
  • Mar 2006
  • Washington Insight
  • Dec 2005
  • Pinpointing your environmental weak spots
  • Oct 2005
  • Turning trash to cash: The green waste recycling story
  • Sep 2005
  • President's Message
  • Aug 2005
  • Ford Allen Park Clay Mine Landfill - Fairlane Green Redevelopment
  • Jun 2005
  • The 2005 Top Ten Public Works Leaders of the Year
  • May 2005
  • Garden in the air
  • Apr 2005
  • A successful operation: EMS implementation in Eugene, Oregon
  • Mar 2005
  • Low Impact Development: Moving towards economically sound environmental asset management
  • Feb 2005
  • APWA announces new initiative to promote efficient environmental management
  • Dec 2004
  • Technical Committee News
  • Sep 2004
  • Technical Committee News
  • Jul 2004
  • The 2004 Top Ten Public Works Leaders of the Year
  • May 2004
  • Keep it green
  • Apr 2004
  • The Talk Show at the North American Snow Conference
  • Mar 2004
  • Waste tire management efforts in Missouri, Virginia and California
  • Mar 2004
  • Local utility helps fund a microturbine to provide emergency power and peak-load shedding
  • Dec/Jan 2003
  • Educational sessions at Congress
  • Oct 2003
  • Dry emergency gas scrubbers: The dream machine for removing chlorine
  • Aug 2003
  • Document retention post-Arthur Anderson: The ultimate risk-benefit analysis
  • Aug 2003
  • Washington Insight
  • Apr 2003
  • APWA Board of Directors
  • Apr 2003
  • The challenge of restoring the beneficial reuse of our filled lands
  • Mar 2003
  • Single stream recycling: Could be coming to a theatre near you
  • Mar 2003
  • Electronic recycling/product stewardship
  • Mar 2003
  • County tackles e-waste problem
  • Mar 2003
  • Telecom bankruptcies could create opportunities for municipalities
  • Dec/Jan 2002
  • President's Message
  • Nov 2002
  • Technical Committee News
  • Nov 2002
  • Pavement Degradation: How other cities are dealing with it
  • Sep 2002
  • ASCE Policy 465: Academic prerequisites for licensure and professional practice
  • Sep 2002
  • The GASB 34 Chronicles: Land, right-of-way, and easement valuation
  • Sep 2002
  • Detectable warning surfaces now required in curb ramp installations
  • Jul 2002
  • President's Message
  • Apr 2002
  • A guide to logistics streamlining in municipal organizations
  • Apr 2002
  • Solid Waste Management Committee
  • Mar 2002
  • Can't play the game anymore? Just change the rules!
  • Mar 2002
  • A salute to the New York City Sanitation Department
  • Mar 2002
  • Should solid waste workers be concerned about anthrax?
  • Mar 2002
  • From ashes to cottonwoods
  • Mar 2002
  • Best practices in brownfields redevelopment and environmental justice
  • Mar 2002
  • Awesome!
  • Feb 2002
  • APWA endorses Groundhog Job Shadow Day 2001
  • Dec/Jan 2001
  • Unconventional work force: Cleaning major canals with prison labor
  • Dec/Jan 2001
  • From dead camels to E. coli
  • Sep 2001
  • President's Message
  • Aug 2001
  • Cost saving strategies using synthetic oil
  • Aug 2001
  • Public Works: Preparing for and responding to terrorism/weapons of mass destruction
  • Jul 2001
  • Corporate Directory online
  • Apr 2001
  • The role of public works in urban search and rescue teams
  • Apr 2001
  • Hot dog dirt
  • Mar 2001
  • Cleaning up the mess
  • Mar 2001
  • Waste or treasure?
  • Mar 2001
  • Turning brownfields into dreamfields
  • Mar 2001
  • The new generation of environmental issues: extended producer responsibility
  • Mar 2001
  • Charleston County public information and education
  • Mar 2001
  • Selection of sewer system modeling software products
  • Feb 2001
  • Past APWA President, Max Whitman, dies
  • Jul 2000
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