ASLA Receives NEA Grant

The American Society of Landscape Architects Library and Education Advocacy Fund announced it will receive a $22,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The ASLA will use the funds for an exhibit, a student workbook, and a discovery program to help raise awareness of how green roofs improve air and water quality, reduce the urban heat island effect, manage stormwater run-off, replace bio-habitat and provide esthetic amenities to tenants and neighbors and economic benefits to developers and building owners. ASLA completed its green roof demonstration project for its headquarters in Washington, D.C. in April 2006.