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Other Resources

Upstate Forever Projects

• SAVING LAKE GREENWOOD
  An action plan for restoring and protecting water quality (pdf)

• Special Places Inventory for Greenville County

• Special Places Inventory for Spartanburg County

• Active Living Assessment for Spartanburg
  

• Spartanburg County Rapid Parks Assessment

• Modeling Growth and Predicting Future Developed Land
  in the Upstate of South Carolina
  Report submitted to the Saluda-Reedy Watershed Consortium November 2007, released January 2008
  Craig E. Campbell, Jeffery Allen, and Kang Shou Lu
  Strom Thurmond Institute, Clemson University
  Project Abstract
  Full Study
  Original 8-County Slide Show
  Updated 11-County Slide Show
  Oconee Growth Projections by Dr. Craig Campbell (March 2008)
  Cherokee Growth Projections by Dr. Craig Campbell (2009)
  Union Growth Projections by Dr. Craig Campbell (2010)
  

Upstate Forever Conferences

• An Introduction to Creation Care
  October 24, 2010
  The Upstate: At the Fork in the Road
  by Brad Wyche, Upstate Forever
  Energy Management for Congregations
  by Trish Jerman, SC Energy Office
  Saving Energy in Churches
  by Wade Crow, Wade Crow Engineering
  The Green Sanctuary Program at UUFC
  by Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Clemson

• Creating Partnerships for Healthy Communities:
  The Priority Investment Act & School Facilities Planning
  September 11 and 12, 2008
  (note: conference file is in pdf format 512K in size. Other file sizes are noted within)

• Conservation Agreements: The Voluntary Protection of Land
  September 19, 2007

• Trees: The Care and Protection of a Valuable Upstate Resource
  April 26, 2005

• Dealing With Dirt: The Impact and Control of Erosion in the Upstate
  September 23, 2004

• Affordable Housing in the Upstate: Building for the Future
  September 16, 2003

Upstate Forever Speakers

Water: Securing Our Future Series

• Pond Maintenance & Riparian Buffers 
  John C. Hayes, P.E., PhD, Clemson University
  George M. Dickert, Clemson Cooperative Extension Service
  Rick Huffman, Earth Design
  April 26, 2011
  
  
• Construction Impacts on Stormwater, Part 1 and Part 2
  Brian Wisnewski, SCDHEC
  J.P. Johns, Woolpert, Inc.
  Rick Huffman, Earth Design
  J.R. Stewart, Filtrexx Carolinas
  March 11, 2011
  
  
• Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and 303(d) Impaired Waters
  Jennifer DiMaio, US EPA Region IV
  Mihir Mehta, PE, SC DHEC Bureau of Water
  Flint Holbrook, PE PH, The Woolpert Group
  November 19, 2010

Low Impact Development Speaker Series

• Designing an LID Project for the Upstate -- Benefits and Challenges
  Pickens County Stormwater Solutions Speaker Series Presentation
  Joe Bryant, PE, and Clint Rigsby, Senior Landscape Architect, Seamon Whiteside and Associates
  November 10, 2010

• Landscaping for Shoreline Buffers
  Anderson County Stormwater Speaker Series Presentation
  Rick Huffman, Earth Design and SC Native Plant Society
  October 28, 2010

• The Impacts of Construction on Water Quality
  Pickens County Stormwater Solutions Speaker Series Presentation
  John Smink, Clemson University Institute of Environmental Toxicology
  October 19, 2010

• Environmentally-Sensitive Land Planning as a Stormwater BMP
  Anderson County Stormwater Speaker Series Presentation
  Fred Grogan, Equinox Environmental
  October 12, 2010

• Reducing Cost by Reducing Pavement (pdf)
  Jeff Randolph, The Randolph Group
  October 5, 2009
  
  
• The Use of Native Vegetation for Site Stabilization
  Pickens County Stormwater Solutions Speaker Series Presentation
  JP Johns, The Woolpert Group, and Rick Huffman, Earth Design and SC Native Plant Society
  September 29, 2010
  
  
• Using Rain as a Resource (pdf)
  Cullen Pitts, AIA, LEED AP, McMillan Smith & Partners Architects
  September 14, 2009

• Native Plants: Green Tools for Sustainable Applications (pdf)
  Rick Huffman, Earth Design
  September 14, 2009

• Assessing Water Quality Through Structural Design Practices:
  A Case for Bioretention (pdf)
  Calvin B. Sawyer, Ph.D., Clemson University
  July 30, 2009

• An Introduction to Low Impact Development (pdf)
  Don Alexander, PE, The Woolpert Group
  June 25, 2009

• Designing Effective Bioretention Systems (pdf)
  Frank Hahne, PE, Civil Engineering Consultant
  July 24, 2008

• No-Cost Strategies for Reducing Runoff (pdf)
  Jeff Randolph, The Randolph Group
  June 26, 2008

• The Truth About LID (pdf)
  Jennifer Bitting, PE, The Low Impact Development Center
  May 22, 2008

• Making Stormwater Facilities Functional AND Attractive (pdf)
  Turner Simkins, Hammond's Ferry and Dr. Gene Eidson, Clemson University Restoration Institute
  July 10, 2007

• An Introduction to Innovative Stormwater Management Techniques (pdf)
  John Darrohn, Seamon, Whiteside & Associates
  June 5, 2007

• Using Hydrology as a Framework for Development (pdf)
  John Knott, The Noisette Company
  April 3, 2007

• Building Outside the Box: Sustainable Building Practices for Water Quality and Quantity (pdf)
  Margo Farnsworth, Cumberland River Compact
  March 6, 2007

Other Upstate Forever Publications

• Comments on DOT's I-85 Corridor Study
  May 16, 2011

• Assessing Upstate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation Sources Under Changing Land Use Patterns
  by Jeff Hennessy and John Tynan, December 2010

• Identifying and Prioritizing Areas Critical to Water Quality in the Upstate of South Carolina
  by Laura L. Garrett, February 2010
  One page summary and map (pdf)
  Full report (pdf)

• The Best of Upstate Forever: Articles & Essays from our First Decade
  2009

Keeping the Green in Greenville
Browse the Keeping the Green in Greenville newsletters, listed below in reverse chronological order (pdf file format).

• January 25, 2008
• January 15, 2008
• January 3, 2008
• November 13, 2007
• November 1, 2007
• October 1, 2007
• August 2, 2007
• February 15, 2007
• September 7, 2006
• August 14, 2006
• July 16, 2006
• June 19, 2006
• June 5, 2006
• May 19, 2006
• May 11, 2006
• April 26, 2006
• April 10, 2006
• March 27, 2006
• March 13, 2006
• Greenville County Tree Ordinance
• Point: Save the Trees
  May-June 2008
  by Nancy Fitzer in the Greenville Magazine
• Greenville County 2009 Comprehensive Plan
  Comments on Greenville County Comprehensive Land Use Plan
  March 4, 2009
  Comments on Greenville County Comprehensive Land Use Plan
  November 11, 2009
  Action Alert November 12, 2009
  Action Alert December 1, 2009
  
• Economic Prosperity and Environmental Protection:
  We Can Have it Both Ways by Brad Wyche
• Natural Capitalism The Path to a Sustainable World (Address by Brad Wyche Opening Convocation Furman University Spetember 13, 2006)

General Interest:

• Climate, Energy and Commerce Advisory Committee
  Final CECAC Report
• Urban Form and Extreme Heat Events: Are Sprawling Cities More Vulnerable to Climate Change than Compact Cities?
  Brian Stone, Jeremy J. Hess, Howard Frumkin
  Environmental Health Perspectives, 2010 (pdf)
• Urban Forestry SouthWatershed Forestry Manual - Part I
• Smart Growth for Clean Water: Helping Communities Address the Water Quality Impacts of Sprawl
  National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals
• Efficient Vehicles Versus Efficient Transportation
  Comparing Transportation Energy Conservation Strategies (pdf)
• DRIVEN TO SPEND:
  Pumping Dollars out of Our Households and Communities
  Surface Transportation Policy Project (pdf)
• Air Quality and Smart Growth:
  Planning for Cleaner Air
  Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (pdf)
• Suburban sprawl eats more than its share of taxes (pdf)
• Clean Air for the Upstate, Southern Environmental Law Center (website)
• Light Imprint New Urbanism: A Case Study Comparison
  Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., a case study of Griffin Park TND in Greenville County (pdf)
• Slowing Stormwater: Improving Water Quality by Imitating Nature
  by John H. Tibbets in Coastal Heritage, Spring 2008