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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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