Sentences with phrase «other green infrastructure»

Portland uses green streets, ecoroofs, trees, and other green infrastructure to manage stormwater, protect water quality and improve watershed health.

Grey to Green is the leading forum for designers, policy makers, manufacturers, growers, landscapers, and other green infrastructure professionals to discuss the benefits of the green infrastructure industry, and how to grow it even further.

This comprehensive review highlights that trees and hedges, as well as other green infrastructure, must be used strategically to help create healthier, less polluted cities that are also more pleasant for everyone to live and work in.

This is why we need to protect buildings as well as humans in cities in future urban planning, so the strategic placing of hedges, trees and other green infrastructure can have a direct benefit as an air pollution control measure in cities.»

Not exact matches

Targeting infrastructure dollars to clean energy (p. 122 and 149): Last fall, the government included clean energy as potential investments under its $ 21 - billion, 11 - year green infrastructure fund — but the list of other options for those dollars was long.

If the economics were the issue, the real «green» lunch would be the school lunch — it's cheap, it uses a central infrastructure (dishes / trays etc. at the school), and with pressure from parents and other interested parties, can be made from healthy, local and organic foods.

In addition to a massive transition to renewable energy, the Green New Deal would invest in other public infrastructure, including mass transit, public housing, and a pubic broadband utility, as well as public services, including education, health care, and environmental protection.

Apart from air pollution reduction, other benefits of urban green infrastructure include urban heat island mitigation, the potential reduction in energy consumption, better stormwater management, and climate change mitigation.

William and Stillwell chose to study green roofs over other forms of green infrastructure for a very simple reason: There was one on campus fitted with the instrumentation needed to measure soil moisture, rainfall amount, temperature, humidity and many other variables that are plugged into their fragility curve model.

Many localities using green infrastructure and other conservation measures have saved money over time, she said.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

The description of Tokyo as a large group of urban villages connected by transit shows the way, but Tokyo itself misses the other piece: green infrastructure around the villages.

Iran's wind build - out will be a result of an «improving financing environment» with market growth post-2020, while in Jordan the nation's Green Corridor Project will spur growth of «more wind power capacity in 2018 than any other country in the Middle East», according to MAKE, with Green Corridor Project II underpinning the long - term outlook with the construction of necessary grid infrastructure for the expansion.

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has an ambitious plan to scale up green infrastructure, using green roofs, land conservation, permeable pavement and other approaches to help slow and absorb water during the extreme precipitation events that are becoming more common with climate change.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311, 303

Starting with reduction and donation, Global Green's team is partnering with urban planners, city agencies and community groups to evaluate how food scraps from a specific neighborhoods can be recovered most efficiently through «Distributed Food Scrap Processing Infrastructure» and increasing the use of compost and other products made from food waste.

Green infrastructure investments boost the economy, enhance community health and safety, and provide recreation, wildlife, and other benefits.

Linda Dobson and Emily Hauth from Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services led a fascinating tour of Portland's green streets, ecoroofs, bioswales, and several other examples of natural infrastructure and biocarbon solutions that capture CO2, save money, create jobs, and enhance our communities.

My only hope is that landscape architects, and the ASLA, will reach out to other professionals in the green industry, such as landscape contractors, landscape designers, forestry professionals, arborists and other green industry builders, in order to obtain a well rounded approach to development of this infrastructure.

We conducted research across the country to demonstrate what others are doing, and then we developed two feasibility assessments for green stormwater infrastructure implementation as part of the Livable Centers Initiative vision.

Continuing this history, the Katoomba Marketplace Latin America meeting will explore opportunities for investment in green infrastructure through funds managed by water utilities by bringing experts from around world to share financing models from the water and other environmental sectors, and to discuss the potential for scaling investment in green infrastructure in Latin America.

To address practical challenges for developers of green infrastructure projects as well as decision - makers, Forest Trends, together with other leading non-governmental organizations in this field and water sector professionals, is working on a robust evidence base that better quantifies and communicates the hydrological and economic benefits of green infrastructure.

The PEN 70 million investment is more than any other Latin American city or water utility has ever committed to green infrastructure.

Localities have authority over the built environment (e.g. through zoning and building codes); they can implement smart growth initiatives and increase public transportation alternatives; they act as first responders for climate impacts; they deploy green infrastructure such as increasing land for open space and parks; and they drive green economies by offering tax relief and other incentives.

Modern Movement — a group campaigning, amongst other things, for 21st century transport infrastructure — is mobilising against the moralisation of cheap flights and the «cheap» people (in the eyes of Greens) who take them.

DEP offers funding for the design and construction for rain gardens, green roofs, permeable pavers, and other types of green infrastructure on private property.

Overall, the Clean Power Plan is far from the ideal response to the climate crisis favored by Slocum and other greens: a progressive carbon tax capable of funding renewable energy infrastructure.

Stormwater Retention Credit Trading Program: property owners that voluntarily incorporate green infrastructure can sell credits to other property owners to meet minimum requirements.

We've covered Better Place a number of times, sometimes accompanied by a lot of well - founded skepticism, and other times with admiration for the technology and infrastructure being developed by the company, but now it's time to bite the bullet and take a good hard look at the lessons that can be learned from a failed green venture.

UKIP and The Green Party have opted in their manifestos to not support and instead find other areas to invest in infrastructure.

The announcement has followed other recent commitments from political parties that address physical inactivity, including the Coalition's pledge to provide an extra $ 60m for the Sporting Schools program, Labor commitment to an «active ageing fund» and an extra $ 21m to the ABC to provide greater coverage of women's sport; and the Greens $ 250m plan for cycling and walking infrastructure.

Returning streams to the open restores their function as green infrastructure — the concept of using natural processes to cleanse runoff, curb storm surges and perform other environmental services — and recaptures a lost public amenity.