Retention Pond Design

I did some research on what every retention pond needs to be successful and some different ways to make them blend in with the environment and have an alternate use (like walking trails, fishing, etc.).
Thick, tall grass plants like cattails are often see by retention ponds because they can help to purify the water. [...]

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my proposal for the final

As an architectural student, I like esalinas500487 and Jennifer’s group idea. I will like to design something for this final project. But I have different approach…
The City of Bryan has his plan to generate avenue. Every thing is legal. The ways they are doing construction are considering “normal” in U.S.A. as well. So, I feel [...]

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Target Ideas

As I’m researching for protests against Target, environmental issues, and so forth the main environmental topic that repeats itself is banning PCP for use at Target stores. I found this to be very interesting because despite all the harm Target does to the environment they are not seeing the bigger picture. Granted, it could be [...]

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Target in Detention

I have an update on what is going on with that huge hole behind target. For starters its not a retention pond like everyone has been referring to is as, the large whole is actually a detention pond. The difference is a retention pond holds water and it doesn’t go anywhere except into the earth [...]

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Morning site visit

Our group was supposed to go back to the site and gather more information, so Ashley and I decided that a morning site visit would be a good way to get pictures of the site in action and maybe talk to some people. We walked up and asked some of the workers if they [...]

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The Scoop on Target

Here are some very interesting articles I found about Target. It has them in the glory light showing that they follow LEED and environmental issues. Although, based off these articles I found the negatives outweight the positives.
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History and Criticism from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Corporation
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Target’s Goal on the use of Environmentally friendly stores:
“Our Goal: high performance, sustainable stores”
Environmental statement: [...]

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the word on the street

ok…so…I was assigned the task of looking up what happened when the Super Walmart in Bryan moved in. Were there any law suits or interesting situations? By what I could find there was not much of anything. Search engines showed me where it was, its hours, and sales. The Eagle told me that it existed [...]

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