:: Our Mission

To assist communities in developing strategies for protecting and conserving their ecological and cultural assets through environmentally-sensitive decisions, lifestyles and planning.

Green infrastructure is the interconnected natural systems and ecological processes that provide clean water, air quality and wildlife habitat. Green infrastructure sustains a community’s social, economic, and environmental health.

:: What's New?

Green Infrastructure Center's New Planning Guides Support Resilient Communities

The GIC has just released two new planning guides "Evaluating and Conserving Green Infrastructure Across the Landscape: A Practitioner's Guide."

There is one version created for Virginia and another for New York. Additional guides will be released later this year for North Carolina and Arkansas.

Based on six years of field testing, the guides show communities how to map their most significant natural resources and make plans to conserve or restore them. While they have been created for specific states, the ideas in the guides can be applied anywhere.

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Also:

• Plan to attend June Watershed and Healthy Communities events in Bellemeade!
• Bellemeade Walkable Watershed receives New Restoration Grants.
• Green Infrastructure: Protecting Our Commonwealth Video now on YouTube! GIC co-authored the script and you can see some of our work.

:: What Can You Do?

• Create a green infrastructure plan in your community.
• Donate today and help support the GIC.