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    <description>&lt;p&gt;The American Society of Interior Designers is the leading organization for interior design professionals.  From corporate boardrooms to home offices, hotel suites to health care facilities, ASID designers create the places where we live, work, play, heal and worship.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <short-description>Through education, knowledge sharing, advocacy, community building and outreach, the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) strives to advance the interior design profession and, in the process, to demonstrate and celebrate the power of design to positively change people's lives.</short-description>
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    <description>Founded in 1899, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is the national professional association representing landscape architects. Beginning with 11 original members, ASLA has grown to more than 18,000 members and 48 chapters, representing all 50 states, U.S. territories, and 68 countries around the world. ASLA promotes the landscape architecture profession and advances the practice through advocacy, education, communication, and fellowship.

What is Landscape Architecture?

Landscape architecture encompasses the analysis, planning, design, management, and stewardship of the natural and built environments. Types of projects include:

Academic campuses 
Conservation 
Corporate and commercial 
Gardens and arboreta 
Historic preservation and restoration 
Hospitality and resorts 
Institutional 
Interior landscapes 
Land planning 
Landscape art and earth sculpture 
Monuments 
Parks and recreation 
Reclamation 
Residential 
Security design 
Streetscapes and public spaces 
Therapeutic gardens 
Transportation corridors and facilities 
Urban design 
Water resources. 
Landscape architects have advanced education and professional training and are licensed in 49 states.

Public Relations and Advocacy

ASLA works to increase the public&#8217;s awareness of and appreciation for the profession of landscape architecture. ASLA is an active advocate for the profession at the local, state and national levels on public policy issues including licensure, livable communities, sustainable design, surface transportation, the environment, historic preservation, small business issues, and more. 

Information Resources and Services

Other key ASLA programs and services include Landscape Architecture magazine; the ASLA Web site,www.asla.org, featuring information and services for the profession and the general public, such as Firm Finder, an online directory of landscape architects; LAND Online e-newsletter and The Dirt online blog; ASLA Annual Meeting and Exposition sites; Sweets Landscape Architecture Directory, the official product guide of the ASLA; the Professional Practice Networks; LATIS, the Landscape Architects Technical Information Series; JobLink, an online employment site; the ASLA Awards Program; and many more.</description>
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    <short-description>The Society's mission is to lead, to educate, and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environments.</short-description>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Big Green Initiative is a group of people that has as its main tenet, ethical practice and total respect for humankind and the biosphere it inhabits. It looks at educating and influencing people and through cooperation with other organizations create momentum to reach its ultimate goal to gain a world that is truly one we want future generations to inherit. The time for talk is over, action is what counts. It is time that the throne, corporations and puppet governments have enjoyed at the expense of raping mother Earth is usurped by a planetary revolution of peace and mutual respect for all citizens - Humans, animals and plants.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Therefore, with all this in mind, our commitment to mission zero is one of assistance in reducing our affect on the environment through education and the promotion of science.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <name>Big Green Initiative</name>
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    <short-description>Big Green Initiative - A group aimed at changing opinion and attitude and giving momentum to a safer greener world for generations to come.</short-description>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Bright Green Talent&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;Carpet America Recovery Effort&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <name>Carpet America Recovery Effort</name>
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    <short-description>Carpet America Recovery Effort</short-description>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Our mission is bold -- to integrate sustainability into capital markets for the health of the planet and its people. We believe collaboration across many constituencies is critical to solve complex sustainability problems. &amp;nbsp;We are participating in MissionZero.org to explore new ways to tie committed individuals, companies and organizations together in dialogues that help drive action. &amp;nbsp;We're looking to inspire and be inspired as we share challenges and opportunities via a dynamic platform for communication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <short-description>Ceres is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change.   </short-description>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;CoolCompute:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This Group is targeted at addressing three branches of sustainability:&amp;nbsp; 1)&amp;nbsp; Eliminating the manufacture of material good by using computer based virtualization or simulation technology as a replacement.&amp;nbsp; 2) Making computing itself sustainable via resource optimization. 3)&amp;nbsp;Facilitating a sustainable&amp;nbsp;computing hardware lifecycle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While the group has been&amp;nbsp;launched, I am still formulating the goals, objectives and approach - please&amp;nbsp;chill for a&amp;nbsp;bit.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Andy&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <short-description>This Group is targets three branches of sustainability:  1)  Eliminating the manufacture of material good via computer based virtualization or simulation technology.  2) Making computing itself sustainable via resource optimization. 3) Facilitating a sustainable computing hardware lifecycle.</short-description>
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&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin-left: 8px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digitalscientists.com&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://missionzero.s3.amazonaws.com/groups/DigitalScientists/m0-group-main-street.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Main Street&quot; width=&quot;596&quot; height=&quot;177&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; We are opening a new office in Alpharetta, Georgia. And we're going to do our best to reduce our environmental footprint.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin-left: 8px;&quot;&gt;We have made a good start, already, because we are going to clean up and inhabit a building that's stood on Main Street (that's the real street name) since 1834.&amp;nbsp; You can read all about our experience in the blog posts at the bottom of this page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 13px; margin-left: 8px;&quot;&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/34294536@N03/3330433253/&quot;&gt;general store&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a title=&quot;digital marketing&quot; href=&quot;http://digitalscientists.com&quot;&gt;digital marketing&lt;/a&gt; planning, &lt;a title=&quot;web design atlanta&quot; href=&quot;http://digitalscientists.com/services/design_development/web-design/&quot;&gt;web design&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a title=&quot;iPhone app development&quot; href=&quot;http://digitalscientists.com/services/design_development/mobile-applications/&quot;&gt;iPhone apps&lt;/a&gt; in less than two centuries . . .&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <short-description>Working hand in hand with Interface, Digital Scientists had the honor of designing and building MissionZero.org. The firm helps companies of all sizes use the new science of marketing to realize their ambition. Services include strategy, web application development, web design, advertising, and search marketing.</short-description>
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