Articles and Publications
Nearly 450 registrants, 30 exhibitors, community leaders and participants united on April 25 to discuss opportunities and strategies to make Kansas City "America's Greenest City."
Disconnecting our downspouts from the sewer system and reconnecting them to rain barrels is an important method for reducing runoff and improving water quality.
Published June 2008· Kansas City Gardener
On April 25, 2008, the City of Kansas City, Missouri will host KC Green Summit 2008.
Published April 2008· City Manager's Insight E-newsletter
Let it rain. Then let your neighbors admire the beauty and environmental efficiency of your rain garden, a wondrous meld of form and function.
Published March/April 2008· Greenability
Kansas City's civic, business and educational leaders are plotting to make us "America's Green Region."
Published April 2008· Kansas City Gardener
Gardeners and landscape professionals across the metro area and beyond have made quite a splash with rain gardens and bioswales. Now that dirty work may yield some pay dirt.
Published March 2008· Kansas City Gardener
Green solutions offer cost-effective ways to manage storm water.
· Your Voice
Team Fire helps build rain garden for area man.
· The Johnson County Sun
Scouts plant rain garden as part of a community project on the grounds of the Jackson County Public Works Technology Center, 303 W. Walnut St. in Independence.
· The Examiner, Eastern Jackson County
The steps can be simple or very complex, but the returns are just great, these families say.
· Kansas City Star
A garden that became a haven for butterflies and birds -- and a sponge for water flowing off the rooftops of two homes -- has replaced a dense mat of lawn in one Highlands neighborhood.
· The Courier-Journal
Work began in Spring 2007 and was completed in time for the start of the next school year thanks to a $1,000 Missouri Department of Conservation grant, private donations and hard work from volunteers and staff.
· Kansas City Star
Goodbye "Rain Thicket," those branching metal tubes in Oppenstein Park. They used to spray water on passers-by, but the fountain has been inoperative for years.
Come summer, the pocket park at 12th and Walnut, owned by Jackson County, is getting a makeover, courtesy of Art in the Loop, the nonprofit foundation behind the recently erected Loop Artwall and the aluminum figures of bus riders at the KCATA Transit Plaza.
· Kansas City Star
Booming urban growth, and the concrete that comes with it, has pushed storm drainage to its limits. Rain gardens and other green solutions can help solve the crisis.
Published March/April 2007· Natural Home
An eco-friendly stormwater management initiative launched by Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes and other regional leaders in November 2005 is being heralded in the February issue of House & Garden magazine as "the most ambitious horticultural project in the United States."
Published January 22, 2007 · U.S. Conference of Mayors
10,000 Rain Gardens initiative receives national praise as an innovative way to address runoff pollution. Read full article in House & Garden
Published February 2007· House & Garden
Kansas City Art Institute works with area businesses to create rain garden a Theis Park.
· Kansas City Star
State Street Bank partners with KC Habitat ReStore to create rain garden.
· Kansas City Star
Rain gardens consist of native plants planted in shallow basins. The plants' deep roots allow water to infiltrate the soil. A well-designed rain garden can trap and retain a significant percentage of pollutants common in stormwater runoff, thereby improving water quality, according to a news release from engineering, consulting, and construction company Black & Veatch (Kansas City, Mo.).
Published July/August 2007· Water Environment Foundation
Review current articles from the Kansas City Star on environmental issues.
Published Plants & Gardens News Volume 1· Brooklyn Botanic Garden