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Green Infrastructure Approach

The Conservation Fund’s Strategic Conservation Program uses a green infrastructure approach — simultaneously focusing on the best lands to conserve and the best lands to accommodate development — to help communities balance environmental and economic goals through strategies that lead to smarter, sustainable land uses. Every community is unique, with varying natural resources and needs. The Conservation Fund draws from its strategic conservation toolkit to help city and county planners, regional and watershed organizations, natural resource agencies and nonprofits design comprehensive and customized strategies that balance land protection and development.

Partners

We work with a variety of partners in our work. For a list of other organizations utilizing the green infrastructure approach, see our Partners page.

Leadership

From its hallmark book Green Infrastructure and its Better Models publications to professional training courses offered through the Conservation Leadership Network, The Conservation Fund brings the nation’s foremost strategic conservation specialists to America’s towns, counties and states.

America’s Best Results

From Kona, Hawaii, and Houston, Texas, to Baltimore County, Maryland,
and Spartanburg, South Carolina, The Conservation Fund is helping communities nationwide maintain connected networks of conservation lands while accommodating development.

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The Green Infrastructure Community of Practice is a collaborative network of organizations and agencies that are actively involved in the strategic green infrastructure approach to conservation and environmental protection or restoration. Learn more>

Spotlight
Green Infrastructure book cover
Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities by Mark A. Benedict and Edward T. McMahon is an illustrative review of advances in smart land conservation and large scale thinking that provides a green solution to many of the problems associated with sprawling development.
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