The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago partners with municipalities within its service area (generally, Cook County, Illinois) to fund green infrastructure installations. As part of their agreement to receive funding, municipalities must commit...
Lack of access to capital remains a top reason that neighborhoods in historically marginalized communities are often excluded from equitable benefits of green infrastructure projects. In 2022, the GI Leadership Exchange, through its Collaborative Grant Program,...
Yesterday, Exchange members attended the second of four members-only community engagement workshops. Facilitated by Katherine Baer and April Ingle of the River Network, the workshop set out to teach participants how to support the growth of authentic and...
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 any topic, which makes it really handy, but in thinking how a system, like green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), for...
The Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange, in partnership with Earth Economics, recently completed a Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) FAQs to help Exchange members have effective conversations with agency leadership and colleagues about the adoption of GSI,...
What would your day be like if you turned on the tap or flushed the toilet, and nothing happened? While many take water for granted, plenty of Americans live with this grim reality every day. Imagine a Day Without Water, hosted by the US Water Alliance Value of Water...