GC 2011

Welcome to the 2011 National Green Infrastructure Post-Conference Resources Page! On this page, you will find all resources associated with the conference including PowerPoint presentations provided by speakers as well as videos of keynote and plenary talks at the conference.  You will also find the compiled results of the Action Planning discussions that took place during the conference. These resources are being provided for download as part of the continued commitment to the sharing of resources among those who practice green infrastructure planning.

Action Planning

The audience attending the Action Planning portions of the 2011 National Green Infrastructure Conference was asked to provide their opinion to statements in an effort to seek consensus on broad-scale principles related to process and application issues associated with green infrastructure.  As while not overly scientific, we believe the audience was representative of green infrastructure practitioners in the US and encourage you to use the data as appropriate for your work and organization (download Action Planning results).

Speaker Presentations

The 2011 National Green Infrastructure Conference was an outstanding success due to the high-caliber cadre of presenters demonstrating real-world examples of the implementation of green infrastructure at a multitude of scales, applications, and geographies to achieve multiple benefits and on-the-ground results.

Below you will find presentations from the February 23-25, 2011 conference. They are organized according to the sessions presented each day (download agenda).

Keynote Presentation: Welcoming Address--Larry Selzer, President & CEO, The Conservation Fund (link to video)

Plenary Session 1: Applications of Green Infrastructure

• GI and Energy Infrastructure--John Shafer, Principal, NiSource (download PDF) (link to video)
•  GI and Transportation--Neil Pedersen, Administrator, Maryland State Highway Administration (download PDF) (link to video)
• GI and the Greening of US Ports--Kurt Nagle, CEO, Association of American Port Authorities (download PDF of presentation) (link to video)
• Question & Answer with the audience (link to video)  

Plenary Session 2: International Perspective on Green Infrastructure

• GI and the European Union Commission--Marco Fritz, Policy Officer, European Union Commission DG Environment (download PDF) (link to video)
• GI and the United Arab Emirates--Hazem Qawasmeh, Advisor, Abu Dhabi Municipality (download PDF) (link to video)
• Question & Answer with the audience (link to video)

Concurrent Sessions: Valuing and Communicating the Benefits of Green Infrastructure

• Session 3a: Valuing GI—Ecosystem Services and Practical Application to GI (Todd download), (Wolf download), (Campbell download)
• Session 3b: Communicating Benefits of GI—Strategies for Engaging Traditional and Non-Traditional Partners when Developing Leadership Groups (Williamson download), (Robinson download), (Boland download)
• Session 3c: Corporate Sustainability: What is it, Why do it, and What’s the Benefit? (Holmbeck download), (Coogan download)

Plenary Session 4: GI and Quality of Life

• GI and Livability--Beth Osborne, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy, US Department of Transportation (download PDF)
• GI and Sustainability Planning--Chuck Flink, President, Greenways Inc. (download PDF) (link to video) 
• GI and Home(Town) Security--Majora Carter, President, Majora Carter Group (link to video)
• Question & Answer with the audience (link to video) 

Keynote Presentation: “Nashville – Naturally”--The Honorable Karl Dean, Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee (link to video)

Concurrent Sessions: The Scales of GI

• Session 5a: GI at the Urban Scale (Shafer download), (Robertson download), (Lammers download)
• Session 5b: GI at the Regional Scale (Allen download), (Krupovage coming soon), (Henszey download)
• Session 5c: GI at the Landscape Scale (Darden download), (Magnuson download), (Ruther download)

Concurrent Sessions: Financing, Management and Liability

• Session 6a: Long-Term Management Considerations of GI (Goodno download), (Stewart download), (Macmillan download)
• Session 6b: Methods for Financing GI (Amundsen download), (Connelly download), (Everett download)
• Session 6c: Legal/Liability Issues associated with GI (Abdella & Hansen download)
• Session 6d: GI and Urban Forestry (Hinrichs download), (Rosen download), (Rouse download), (O’Donnell download)

Plenary Session 7: Looking to the Future

• GI and Climate Change--Dr. Thomas Armstrong, Senior Advisor for Climate Change, U.S. DOI (Armstrong download) (link to video)

• Landscape-Level Planning and the Power of Partnerships--Major General Carl Jensen, Marine Corps Installations East (Jensen download) (link to video)