Publications
Open Space Strategies for Forest, Water and Climate Problems
by James Sipes
Read "Open Space Strategies for Forest, Water and Climate Problems"
What is open space conservation and how does it connect with climate change? Does my community need more? These questions and their connection with open space and water resource protection were the focus of a recent Compact project. In late 2010, the Cumberland River Compact, Climate Solutions University, and renowned author, James Sipes, teamed up to develop a path for natural resource conservation and implementation. With the financial support of World Wildlife Fund we were able to create an incredible tool for community planners. The paper, "Open Space Strategies for Forest, Water and Climate" outlines what open space means to our communities and how we can plan our future with conservation as our focus. This exciting document simply connects our communities to why and how we can protect our future by protecting our open space. With this paper, communities can work to identify key spaces in need of protection, how to find the funding opportunities to make conservation affordable, and how to weave these conservation areas into long-range planning. And to make this document even more useful, you can read about how other communities across the country and in Middle Tennessee are working to protect open space right now. Communities grow and people need places to live and work. But we also need to protect the water we drink and the environment in which we live. This paper can help you and your community realize the goal of development in a way that protects natural resources.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Water Quality Scorecard
Incorporating Green Infrastructure Practices at Municipal, Neighborhood, and Site Scales
The Water Quality Scorecard can be used by local officials, government staff, and development professionals to determine whether or not a community allows for the oppourtunity of green infrastructure and indentifies areas they can enhance or development green infrastructure language in their codes and ordinances.
Read the Water Quality Scorecard here.
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Building Outside the Box:
Sustainable Building Practices for Builders and Homeowners
Awarded the 2006 TN Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award for Building Green
Tennessee Conservationist September/October 2006
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Morgan Park Place, a 72 Unit Urban Infill Development in Historic Germantown, Nashville, TN was analyzed for the costs and benefits of eight water related sustainable building features.
Read the Morgan Park Place Economic Analysis Report here.
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Spraying Rainwater
The Campbell Farm in southern Kentucky harvests 10,000 gallons of rain water per 1 inch rainfall to save water and energy.
Progressive Farmer August 2008.
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This Water Goes a Long Way
Cleaning up 900 feet of a small creek serves as a dramatic example of how to reduce sediment and runoff.
Progressive Farmer March 2009
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Green Communities for Clean Water
Build Green. Save Green. Be Green
Sustainable Building and Low Impact Development for Clean Water
A special edition of River Voices from River Network (2008)
Articles include:
- Green Building 101 by Dr. Gwen Griffith
- Good for Buildings and for Rivers by Margo Farnsworth
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Planting Trees with People in Mind:
The Role of Trees in Climate Change
by Gwen Griffith, Nancy Gilliam and Mekayle Houghton
Tennessee Conservationist Mar/April 2009
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The Carbon Footprint of Water
By Bevans Griffiths-Sattenspeil and Wendy Wilson
A River Network Report 2009
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Cumberland River Compact
P.O. Box 41721
Nashville, TN 37204
615-837-1151
info(at)cumberlandcompact.org
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Know what the major Cumberland River pollutant is? Well, it is the DIRT and
the other "stuff" from our yards, our roofs and our driveways that runs off
every time we have a good rain.
If we all kept our dirt in our own yards, the river would be a lot healthier
and safer for everyone.
Visit the Sediment page to learn more about Muddy Waters and what YOU can do
to keep your dirt at home.
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