Did you know that roads and parking lots in the United States cover more than 61 million square miles of the Earth’s surface? TerraFirm Enterprises is working to combat the problem of over-paving with ...

Professors will examine the use of permeable pavements such as interlocking concrete pavers and permeable asphalt to help San Antonio adopt better water infiltration systems and reduce the urban heat ...

Last year, the installation of a concrete driveway became a major spectacle in Victoria, Canada. “It was a real big thing,” said Ron Manuel, the owner of the driveway in the coastal capital city of ...

The Naperville Park District has received a $60,000 grant to assist with replacing a gravel parking lot with permeable pavers at the Ron Ory Community Garden Plots, county and park district officials ...

EDISON, New Jersey, October 30, 2009 (ENS) – Polluted runoff from hard surfaces such as parking lots remains a complicated problem, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is renewing its quest ...

Located in the expansive Novant Cotswold Medical district on Randolph Rd. in Charlotte, N.C., a new office building designed to support a variety of medical services had some special considerations ...

SALISBURY, Md. - Parishioners poured out of Salisbury's Saint Peter's Episcopal Church on Sunday, but they weren't going home. They gathered for the unveiling of the church's new pervious or permeable ...

The depaving movement has become something of a national sport in the Netherlands, with municipalities competing to see who can remove the most paving from their town each year. Stateside the crusade ...

A majority of Park Ridge aldermen say they are still interested in building a so-called “green” parking lot on city-owned property in Uptown, but would like to wait another year to take on the project ...

Rainwater running off of a concrete or asphalt parking lot carries oil and other contaminants into storm drains, fouling waterways. New “permeable pavement” designs from North Carolina State ...

New Orleans is a city often inundated by water and, just as often, a city frustrated in its attempts to deal with it. Now, joining a movement that supporters say will help mitigate flooding and soil ...