Paved parking lots and driveways make our lives easier, but they often create an easy pathway for pollutants to reach underground water sources and alter the natural flow of water back into the ground ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed permeable pavements to reduce the problems caused by storm and runoff water in urban areas. The project also aims to prepare for the higher volumes of rainfall and more ...

It's only one parking space, but Kelli-Nicole Croucher hopes the difference is noticeable next time it rains. A sustainable energy group dug up a parking spot near the Sackville post office and is ...

(San Antonio, June 24, 2019) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Engineering has been selected to receive approximately $2.6 million in City funding to complete three water ...

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 ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced a study that will investigate ways to reduce pollution that can run off paved surfaces and improve how water filters back into the ground. EPA is ...