Climate Friendly Parks: Best Management Practices

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Climate Friendly Parks Best Management Practices
Pictured Rocks NL, July 2007 Asher Burns-Burg,
ICF International
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Where to start

• Use existing resources
• NPS 100 Best Management Practices Guide
• Climate Friendly Parks Website
• Pacific West Regions Climate Change Site
• Department of the Interiors Greening Site
• Be creative!

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Transportation - Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
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Energy - Zion National Park

• Solar panels provide 30 of the buildings power
• 80 of the structure is lit through natural
  daylight
• No potable water used for irrigation
• Thermal massing  Trombe Wall for heat retention
• Insulation (structural insulated panels in roof,
  blown-in in walls)
• Visitor Displays

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Solid Waste - Yellowstone National Park

• Green Purchasing Filter

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Resources

• Climate Friendly Parks (Mitigation)
• www.nps.gov/climatefriendlyparks/Mitigation
• Inside NPS (Pacific West Region)http//inside.nps
  .gov/regions/region.cfm?rgnPWRlv1
• Greening the Department of the Interior
• http//www.doi.gov/greening/
• EPA (What You Can Do)
• http//www.epa.gov/wycd