When it comes to something as large and as opaque as a city’s stormwater management system, municipalities often struggle to create pathways for meaningful public participation. Particularly for agencies with small staffs and budgets, municipalities can find it difficult to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s requirement that every municipality with a combined sewer… Continue reading Green Infrastructure In Our Backyards
Topic: Green Infrastructure/Stormwater Management
Three Questions for Elizabeth Fassman-Beck
It’s been an exciting summer for Elizabeth Fassman-Beck, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Fassman-Beck, a leading expert on green roofs and co-author of Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems, is overseeing the construction of a Living Laboratory for green infrastructure (GI) research. The… Continue reading Three Questions for Elizabeth Fassman-Beck
Harvesting the Value of Water: Stormwater, Green Infrastructure, and Real Estate
This report analyzes the stormwater policy landscape and summarizes various real estate developments that have arisen in response. Real estate case studies from across the country demonstrate a range of stormwater policies, featuring management innovations as well as positive financial, operational or design outcomes.
Opportunities for Municipal Clean Water Utilities to Advance Environmental Justice & Community Service
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies prepared this report to increase awareness of the many benefits America’s clean water utilities provide to their communities. The projects in this compendium represent efforts by NACWA members to reach beyond the traditional model of simply conveying and treating wastewater and stormwater, to become assets and partners in their… Continue reading Opportunities for Municipal Clean Water Utilities to Advance Environmental Justice & Community Service
Spurring Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Stormwater Markets
This paper from Natural Resources Defense Council summarizes NRDC’s review of Philadelphia Water Department’s Greened Acre Retrofit Program (GARP). GARP encourages contractors or design and construction firms to compete for limited public grant funding by aggregating and presenting the lowest-cost retrofit opportunities available on private land. The availability of public dollars through GARP is intended… Continue reading Spurring Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Stormwater Markets
Green Infrastructure in Parks: A Guide to Collaboration, Funding, and Community Engagement
The green infrastructure guide from the Environmental Protection Agency provides a stepwise approach for building partnerships between stormwater managers and park managers, including information on how to identify and engage partners, build relationships, involve the community, leverage funding opportunities, and identify green infrastructure opportunities. It includes recommendations on the types of projects that are most… Continue reading Green Infrastructure in Parks: A Guide to Collaboration, Funding, and Community Engagement
New Jersey Developers’ Green Infrastructure Guide
The New Jersey Developers’ Green Infrastructure Guide, put together by New Jersey Future and the New Jersey Builders Association addresses basic questions about green stormwater infrastructure: what it is, how it works, what are its costs and benefits, and why it makes good business sense. Green infrastructure is not the perfect solution for every setting or… Continue reading New Jersey Developers’ Green Infrastructure Guide
Presentations from Workshop: “Fostering Municipal and Utility Partnerships for Water Quality Management”
At the “Fostering Municipal and Utility Partnerships for Water Quality Management” Workshop on Feb. 7, 2017, audience members learned about new best practices that will help municipal governments, working in partnership with their utilities, conduct/implement water loss audits, utility asset management and green infrastructure planning and implementation. The workshop was presented in partnership with the… Continue reading Presentations from Workshop: “Fostering Municipal and Utility Partnerships for Water Quality Management”
The Green Infrastructure Exchange Has Launched!
The Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange is a new practitioner network that supports, via accelerating peer learning, innovation and implementation, managers of public green infrastructure programs seeking to adopt and grow green stormwater infrastructure programs.
One Water Roadmap: The Sustainable Management of Life’s Most Essential Resource
This report from the U.S. Water Alliance makes a case for the One Water approach and highlights successful strategies and real-world examples in practice.