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Which approach involves using native and adapted, drought-tolerant plants, trees and turf for landscaping?
Which approach involves using native and adapted, drought-tolerant plants, trees and turf for landscaping?
- Protecting and preserving wetlands
- Developing brownfields
- Using native and adapted, drought-tolerant plants (correct)
- Reusing existing buildings
What does developing grayfields involve?
What does developing grayfields involve?
- Protecting key natural features
- Developing grayfields (correct)
- Developing brownfields
- Reusing existing buildings
What does reusing existing buildings instead of constructing new ones contribute to?
What does reusing existing buildings instead of constructing new ones contribute to?
- Using native and adapted, drought-tolerant plants
- Developing brownfields
- Minimizing the impacts of construction on the site (correct)
- Protecting and preserving wetlands
What is the focus of protecting and preserving wetlands and other features?
What is the focus of protecting and preserving wetlands and other features?
What does minimizing the building footprint and carefully planning construction operations help in achieving?
What does minimizing the building footprint and carefully planning construction operations help in achieving?
What has historically made the process for EPDs difficult to develop?
What has historically made the process for EPDs difficult to develop?
Why have manufacturers historically been resistant to participating in a transparent scheme of product declarations?
Why have manufacturers historically been resistant to participating in a transparent scheme of product declarations?
What do environmental product declarations (EPDs) and environmental building declarations (EBDs) promise to ease past?
What do environmental product declarations (EPDs) and environmental building declarations (EBDs) promise to ease past?
What role do third-party organizations play in the context of product declarations?
What role do third-party organizations play in the context of product declarations?
What do environmental product declarations (EPDs) and environmental building declarations (EBDs) aim to provide for the assessment of products and whole buildings?
What do environmental product declarations (EPDs) and environmental building declarations (EBDs) aim to provide for the assessment of products and whole buildings?
