The convention highlights surface water and stormwater techniques of leading manufacturers & suppliers. Stormwater management is a fast-changing discipline and StormCon 09 is the only professional conference and exposition where you can learn about the latest stormwater program management innovations, BMPs performance case studies, research, technology, and services from leading vendors and service providers like AquaBio.

Dive into Blue August! It’s easy to appreciate the pleasures of water during summertime—just ask anyone swimming in a lake, sunning at the beach, or running through a sprinkler—but it’s also easy to take clean, plentiful water and healthy oceans for granted. For the next several weeks, Planet Green takes a look at the beautiful bounty and most pressing issues facing our oceans, lakes, rivers, and streams with Blue August. On-air and online, we’ll feature content such as Focus Earth’s Ocean Special, the documentary Blue Planet, and dozens of articles, slideshows, and quizzes. Now that should give you something to think about next time you hit the beach.

Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.