Experts Online Archive: Using Green Infrastructure to Building Healthy, Livable Communities
Date Published: 02/16/2011
Archived webcast from 02/02/11
Overview
Sustainable, healthy, livable communities are hot topic amongst planners and practitioners working to improve the quality of life in cities and towns today. As we look for ways to green our communities and make them safer, healthier places to live, green infrastructure emerges as a powerful solution to simultaneously accomplish ecological, social, and economic goals.
Green infrastructure- or, low impact development (LID)- entails sustainable, innovative ways to manage storm water and address water conservation, while often also reducing heating, cooling, and water management costs. From rain gardens and bioswales to green roofs and permeable pavement, green infrastructure offers great opportunity to help protect and restore naturally functioning ecosystems while also providing a strong framework for urban development (think less street and park flooding, more birds and greenery, and lower utility costs).
Speakers Virignia Lee (United States EPA), Kathryn Gwilym (SVR Design) and Brian Sullivan (Seattle Housing Authority) will share insights on where green infrastructure has been implemented, how to assemble a strong design and engineering team, and what lessons have been learned in the decade proceeding the development of one of the nation's most notable and longstanding green infrastructure projects (High Point in Seattle).
Presenters
- Virginia Lee, Program Manager of the US EPA's WaterSense Program
- Kathryn Gwilym,PE, LEED, SVR Design Company
- Brian Sullivan, Senior Development Manager, Seattle Housing Authority
- Madeline Fraser-Cook, Director of the Green Development Center, LISC
Archive Recording:
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Topic: --Green Development
Type: Archived Webcast - Experts Online