New Guide Proposes GSI Climate Resilience Best Practices
GSI is a tool for addressing both the management of stormwater and certain impacts of climate change, like extreme heat, flooding and drought....
Insights
Scaling GSI by Capitalizing Vegetation Establishment Costs
The results of our 2022 State of Public Sector GSI report were crystal clear about these two things: (1) At 10 percent, expenditures on GSI pale in...
Performance-Based Plant Selection: Developing a Bioretention Plant Selection Tool
Performance-Based Plant Selection: Developing a Bioretention Plant Selection Tool For over 20 years, vegetated bioretention systems have been...
A Proposed Scope of Work for a GSI Playbook: 3 Takeaways
At a plenary session of the 2023 Annual Meeting, Rose Jordan of Greenprint Partners presented a draft scope of work for a GSI Playbook. Below are 3...
How the Exchange Can Foster a State of Environmental Justice: 3 Takeaways
As my part of the welcoming plenary session at this year's Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, I offered comments on why the Exchange is uniquely...
The Exchange’s State of Public Sector GSI Report Makes the News
The State of Public Sector GSI, 2022 is a research report created to establish a baseline to better understand the state of local public sector...
Exchange Publishes Community Voices on Equity & Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Heavily quoted in the soon-to-be-released State of Public Sector Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Report, Community Voices reflects the voice...
Making GI Maintenance More Affordable with the GI Exchange Collaborative Grant Program
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago partners with municipalities within its service area (generally, Cook County,...
Connect>Innovate>Scale Up: How This New Book May Inform the Work of the Exchange
In my continuing quest to understand what makes our special breed of nonprofit tick, I read a new book, Connect>Innovate>Scale Up: How...
GI Exchange Collaborative Grant Program Activates Climate Adaptation with the Climate Resilience Resources Guide Part 1
Resilience – “the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change” as defined in the Merriam-Webster. This term can apply to almost...
Bringing the Future into the Present & Addressing It Now
Author Alan Lakein once described planning as “bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” With the support of...
Harnessing Community Involvement in Design & Programming of Public Spaces Helps Propel Community Development & Equity – Both Essential for Our Post-Pandemic Recovery
Parks and other public spaces have played an essential role throughout the pandemic. Recently, the Knight Foundation released a report that...