Green Infrastructure Digest

Ballard Roadside Rain Gardens, Credit: Seattle Public Utilities The City of Seattle was one of the early pioneers of utilizing green infrastructure as a stormwater best management practice with p...

https://hpigreen.com/2012/01/04/gi-in-seattle-the-importance-of-pilot-project-success-for-all-green-infrastructure/

The American Society of Landscape Architects recently released 479 Green Infrastructure Case Studies. The case studies provide an informative snapshot of the type of green infrastructures are bei...

https://hpigreen.com/2011/09/30/479-green-infrastructure-case-studies-released/

Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters Plan ,submitted to the EPA last September, has been signed by the PA Department of the Environmental Protection (PADEP) and the Philadelphia Water Depart...

https://hpigreen.com/2011/06/03/philly-recieves-approval-for-green-infrastructure-plan/

Pinnacle at Symphony Place Green Roof , Nashville, TN The following is a brief email interview we conducted with Steven Peck, founder and president of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, a non-profit...

https://hpigreen.com/2011/05/20/interview-with-green-roof-for-healthy-cities-founder-steven-peck/

Steven Peck, Hon. ASLA, and Founder and President of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities was recently interviewed by The DIRT while in Washington D.C. for the Living Architecture Symposium, (“Desp...

https://hpigreen.com/2011/05/06/soft-benefits-of-green-roofs/

Earlier this year the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) released the publication “ The Value of Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefi...

https://hpigreen.com/2011/03/23/valuing-green-infrastructure/

Last week, the Economist in an articled titled “Trees grow in Brooklyn” reported on U.S. cities implementing green infrastructure strategies to address the pollution of their waterways from s...

https://hpigreen.com/2010/11/18/nycs-green-infrastructure-master-plan/

Last week I attended the American Society of Landscape Architect’s (ASLA) annual meeting in Washington D.C. It was invigorating to hear about promising green infrastructure related projects bei...

https://hpigreen.com/2010/09/20/funding-green-infrastructure-understanding-a-projects-%E2%80%9Cbenefit-fingerprint%E2%80%9D/

I recently came across this video covering Philadelphia’s Green Infrastructure Efforts. It was created by GreenTreks, an award-winning Philadelphia-based non profit communications organization ...

https://hpigreen.com/2010/09/07/philadelphia-green-infrastructure-video/

Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County’s Green Infrastructure Master Plan is now available on Metro Water Services’ website. The plan was prepared by amec, Hawkins Partners, Urban Blueprint, ...

https://hpigreen.com/2010/09/01/metro-green-infrastructure-master-plan-now-on-line/