The National Association of Regional Councils, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, recognized the Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission in Green Bay, WI as a Regional Center of Excellence for their green infrastructure program focused on land conservation and natural resource protection in May 2009.
Read more>To reverse the decline in quality as well as quantity of natural assets and improve the public perception of central Indiana as a desirable place to live and work, the Central Indiana Land Trust invited The Conservation Fund to guide the public through the green infrastructure planning process.
Read more>The Cuyahoga County Greenprint is a vision for Cuyahoga County which serves as an organizing framework for our county, linking communities to each other and to our environment. It builds off previous park and environmental planning efforts and identifies new opportunities for open space protection and the creation of connections.
Read more>A community-driven regional effort to coordinate non-motorized transportation in the Downriver area, just south of the City of Detroit.
Read more>"Paint the Town Green" - A Plan for Open Space Reinvestment in Wisconsin's Communities
Read more>In March, 2004, the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) and Openlands Project (Openlands), two Chicago-based civic organizations, completed the creation of a geospatial database green infrastructure resources in a 14-county region of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.
Read more>Green Topeka views stormwater projects holistically and is using the experience to develop a set of Best Management Practices (BMPs) to address stormwater concerns and to increase green infrastructure throughout the community.
Read more>Growing Greener in Southwest Michigan is a multi-jurisdictional (regional) initiative, encompassing Berrien, Cass and Van Buren Counties, which seeks to create a vision of green infrastructure based on science and public input. This vision can be used as a tool for more sustainable economic and community development in southwest Michigan.
Read more>The Metro Greenways program was launched in 1998 in response to Metro Greenprint, a citizens report that called for stronger efforts to protect nature in the face of urban growth. Since then the program has been working successfully with communities across the region to preserve and restore our vital natural heritage while we still can.
Read more>MetroGreen® is a proposed 1,144-mile interconnected system of public and private open spaces, greenways and trails designed to link seven counties in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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