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The primary version of Sustainable Landscape Construction was launched midway between Y2K, the nice nonevent, and 9-11, an occasion that appeared to vary the whole lot. Since August 2000 a lot has modified and a lot has stayed the identical about sustainability, and the sector of inexperienced constructing particularly. That month, as SLC ’s first version launched, hybrid automobiles had been barely experimental, GPS a novelty, iPods not but invented. Al Gore hadn’t made a movie, not to mention gained an Oscar. Once we first determined to jot down this guide treating panorama building as a value-driven exercise, we weren’t fairly crying within the quickly shrinking wilderness.

 

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