Green Infrastructure Soak Up the Rain Webinars

EPA recognizes that fulfilling our mission of protecting human health and the environment depends on our ability to protect and lift-up communities with environmental justice concerns that have been overburdened by pollution and as a result are more vulnerable to climate change. Green infrastructure can help to reduce the disproportionate impacts of stormwater and flooding on these communities especially in the era of climate change.

Green infrastructure can also provide additional benefits to communities:

  • Increased access to green space.
  • Cooling and relief from the sun.
  • Traffic-calming.
  • Community gathering spaces and natural beauty.

Using green infrastructure practices can help to remedy inequities in access to these amenities that exist between neighborhoods or between demographic groups.

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    Upcoming Webinars

    Igniting Community Imagination: Advancing Green Infrastructure Implementation Through Arts and Culture

    Webinar presenters will explore the role of arts and culture in green infrastructure planning and implementation and how artists can act as “trusted messengers” in communities where implementing green infrastructure may be met with skepticism.

    Winter 2025 -- Details coming soon.

    Past Webinars

    Date Title Keywords
    2024/11/08 EPA's 11th Campus Rainworks Challenge competition, winners, University of Oregon
    2024/10/17 Conserving Rural Landscapes: Green Infrastructure, Climate Resilience and Indigenous Knowledge rivers, wetland management, agriculture, soil management, conservation, place-making

    2024/06/06

    		 Planting for the Future: Native Plants, Green Jobs, and Equitable Climate Resilience environmental justice, best practices, land conservation, water sense, biodiversity
    2024/04/09 Creating Age-Friendly Communities with Green Infrastructure: How Addressing Needs of Children and Older Adults Benefits All climate resilience, planning, schools
    2023/07/26 Off-site Stormwater Management to Promote Green Infrastructure post-construction, planning, case studies
    2023/03/02 Using Green Infrastructure to Prevent Flooding from Intensified Storms in New York and New Jersey environmental justice, flood, resilience, stormwater
    2023/01/25 Green Infrastructure and the MS4 Permit: A Compendium of Case Studies compliance, permitting, planning, requirements, stormwater
    2022/10/27 Growing a Green Infrastructure Workforce benefits, jobs, maintenance, O&M, partnerships, training
    2022/06/14 Stormwater Asset Management: Letting Your Green Infrastructure Assets Work for You funding, life cycle, municipality, planning
    2022/04/28 Going Green for Good: Long-Term Considerations for Operations and Maintenance of Green Infrastructure benefits, best practices, implementation, O&M, planning
    2021/08/05 The Pathway to Green and Complete Streets: Steps, Success Stories, and Lessons Learned benefits, green streets, urban heat islands
    2021/05/12 Financing Green Infrastructure: Best Practices from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund CWSRF, funding, planning, stormwater, water quality
    2021/02/03 EPA's Transportation Stormwater Permit (MS4) Compendium permitting, phase I, phase II, runoff, stormwater
    2020/09/03 EPA's 9th Annual Campus RainWorks Challenge benefits, design, higher education, outreach, student
    2020/03/24 Resilient Design Assistance in the Mid-Atlantic hazard mitigation, planning, policy, resilience, stakeholders
    2020/01/21 The Straight Scoop on Integrated Planning CWA, municipality, state, WIIA
    2019/12/17 Integrating Water Quality and Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning management, program integration, resilience, states
    2019/10/03 Modernizing Compliance: Best Practices and Technologies for Performance Based Stormwater Management MS4, reporting, requirements, technology
    2019/08/07 Going Wild: the Conservation Co-benefits of Green Infrastructure benefits, habitat, runoff, stormwater, wildlife
    2019/05/15 Green Infrastructure: A Triple Bottom Line Approach to Environmental Justice benefits, EJ, stormwater
    2018/12/18 Coloring Superfund Green: Select Case Studies on the Revitalization of Contaminated Sites with Green Infrastructure contaminants, implementation, resilience, stormwater
    2018/12/12 Reclaiming Lost Lands: Revitalizing Brownfields with Green Infrastructure benefits, contaminants, stormwater
    2018/03/01 Building Resilient Communities With Green Infrastructure and Hazard Mitigation Planning benefits, co-benefits, resilience, stormwater, watershed
    2017/11/08 Growing New Jobs With Green Infrastructure benefits, training, workforce
    2017/10/11 Teach, Learn, Grow: The Value of Green Infrastructure in Schoolyards benefits, education, habitat, student
    2017/08/09 Exploring the Link Between Green Infrastructure and Air Quality benefits, emissions, health, pollution, urban heat islands
    2017/05/23 2016 Campus RainWorks Winners design, stormwater, student
    2017/03/29 EPA STAR Grants: Moving Green Infrastructure Forward funding, GIS, implementation, performance, STAR
    2016/11/15 Building the Case for Green Infrastructure: Outreach and Education engagement, funding, water quality
    2016/08/16 Lessons Learned in Green Infrastructure best practices, implementation, practitioners
    2016/04/12 Greening Your Backyard: Water Efficiency and Stormwater Solutions for Homeowners and Communities conservation, education, outreach, rainwater
    2016/02/09 Greening Vacant Lots benefits, implementation, rainwater, stormwater
    2015/12/08 Ahead of the Curve – Implementing Green Infrastructure in Rural and Growing Communities benefits, implementation, MS4, stormwater
    2015/08/13 Paying for Stormwater - The Benefits of a Utility financing, funding, planning, stormwater, utility
    2015/05/05 Getting More Green from your Stormwater Infrastructure benefits, cost, savings, valuing
    2015/03/24 Green Infrastructure for Arid Communities benefits, conservation, water supply
    2014/12/02 Green Infrastructure for Localized Flood Management benefits, flooding, resilience
    2014/11/04 Innovative Financing for Green Infrastructure CWSRF, funding, implementation, planning
    2014/09/03 Green Infrastructure and Smart Growth community development, planning
    2014/07/22 Building Climate Resiliency with Green Infrastructure adaptation, benefits, climate change, planning, resilience
    2014/05/06 More Bang for the Buck: Integrating Green Infrastructure into Existing Public Works Projects funding, implementation, lessons learned, planning
    2014/03/04 Case Studies: Implementing Green Infrastructure under Enforcement Orders benefits, CSO, CWA, enforcement, requirements
    2014/01/07 Winter Weather O&M for Green Infrastructure best practices, cold climates, maintenance
    2014/01/07 O&M and Green: Best Practices for Green Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance incentives, lessons learned, maintenance, regulations

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