Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface: The Why, What, and How of the Second Edition -- Why a New Edition? -- What's New in This Edition? -- How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Contacting the Authors -- Introduction: "Sustainability" in Context -- What Is Sustainability: Politics, Ethics, and Semantics -- Landscapes Against Climate Change -- Sustainability, Substance, and Style -- Resources -- Principle 1: Keep Healthy Sites Healthy -- What Is a Healthy Site? -- Take a Role in "Pre-construction" -- Do Your Homework First: Knowledge as Sustainability -- Avoid Survey Damage -- Minimize Utility Damage -- Physically Protect Site During .Construction -- Preserve Healthy Topsoil -- Save Every Possible Existing Tree-Even Just One -- Use Appropriate Construction Machinery -- Related Design and Planning Issues -- Coordination and Follow-up -- Resources -- Principle 2: Heal Injured Sites -- Turn Wastelands to Gardens -- Balance the Environmental Costs and Benefits of Restoration -- Involve the Community in Site Restoration -- Restore Landscapes Structurally -- Restore Damaged Soils On-site -- Restore Regionally Appropriate Vegetation -- Restore Forests and Coexist with Wildfire -- Resources -- Principle 3: Favor Living, Flexible Materials -- Hold Slopes in Place with Biotechnical Erosion Control -- Make Vertical Structures "Habitat-able" with Greenwalls -- Turn Barren Roof Spaces into "Greenroofs" -- Construct for and with Plants -- Evaluate Turf: The Green, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Count on Plants to Sustain -- Resources -- Principle 4: Respect the Waters of Life -- Work with the Site's Water Regime -- Understand, Protect, and Restore Natural Wetlands -- Restore Rivers and Streams to Full Health -- Collect and Conserve Water -- Irrigate Intelligently and Sparingly -- Reuse Graywater.

Purify Water at Every Opportunity -- Test Modern Hardware for Cleaner Piped Stormwater -- Let Constructed Wetlands Treat Water -- Resources -- Principle 5: Pave Less -- Plan and Design to Reduce Paving -- Take Advantage of "Context-sensitive Road Design" -- Use Techniques That Reduce Runoff from Paving -- Use Porous Paving Materials -- Cool Asphalt with Planting and Albedo -- Resources -- Principle 6: Consider Origin and Fate of Materials -- Recall Some Simple Guidelines -- Let Reuse Be Re-inspiration -- Use Local, Salvaged, or Recycled Materials -- Evaluate Environmental Costs When Choosing Suppliers -- Use Sustainably Harvested Renewables -- Avoid Toxic and Nonrenewable Materials -- Know General Toxicity Issues by Material Type -- Avoid Three Controversial Materials -- Prioritize Hazard-reduction Efforts -- Resources -- Principle 7: Know the Costs of Energy over Time -- Understand How Landscape Energy Use Is Different -- Manage Energy for Machines, Tools, and Labor -- Embodied Energy-Why Do We Care? -- Use Life-cycle Costing to Justify Sustainable Design -- Apply Guidelines for Landscape .Energy Conservation -- Resources -- Principle 8: Celebrate Light, Respect Darkness -- Respect the Need for Darkness -- Talk Lighting-a Brief Glossary -- Use Lighting Efficiently -- Try Low-voltage Lighting for Flexibility -- Evaluate Lamp Performance -- Join the LED Lighting Revolution -- Resources -- Principle 9: Quietly Defend Silence -- Understand Noise Terminology -- Be Aware of Damage Caused by Noise -- Don't Rely on Noise "Barriers" in Most Landscapes -- Try Noise-absorbing Barriers -- Modify Pavement to Reduce Road Noise -- Make Noise Invisible -- Fight Noise with Noise -- Push for Quieter Landscape Tools -- Protect "Soundscapes" Through Planning -- Resources -- Principle 10: Maintain to Sustain.

Know the Resource Costs of Conventional Landscape Maintenance -- Plan for Maintainable Spaces -- Expect Change -- Use Appropriate Machinery and Fuels -- Switch to Bio-based Maintenance Products -- Apply Integrated Pest Management -- Use Fertilizers Sustainably -- Don't Waste On-site Resources -- Consider Alternatives to Mowing -- Adapt to Using Native Plants -- Manage Large Public Landscapes Holistically, Too -- Evaluate Life-cycle Costs of Maintenance Options -- Coordinate Design, Construction, and Maintenance -- Resources -- Conclusions and Beginnings -- Learning from the Landscape: Themes and Strategies -- Green Education in Design and Construction -- Landscapes as Public Environmental Education -- Thinking One Hundred Years Ahead -- Notes -- Index.