Nature’s Revenue Streams: turning ‘green’ into ‘gold’
Creating Our Future
A highlight of the 2007 Annual Conference of the Association of Vancouver Island Coastal Communities was a pre-conference session titled Creating Our Future: Convening for Action on Vancouver Island (CAVI).
The pre-conference session was organized in three parts and was delivered by a presentation team comprising Tim Pringle (Executive Director, Real Estate Foundation of BC), Kim Stephens (Program Coordinator, Water Sustainability Action Plan for BC), and Patrick Lucey (Nature’s Revenue Streams).
To Learn More:
To read the complete story, click on ‘Convening for Action on Vancouver Island’ Resonates with Elected Officials at Qualicum Beach Conference.
Nature’s Revenue Streams
Nature’s Revenue Streams is a 3-year public-private pilot project, based in Saanich BC, that will show how urban development can be used as an opportunity to 
improve watershed and stream health, build/restore aquatic habitat and reduce infrastructure costs for developers and the municipality while also addressing rainwater runoff.
Patrick Lucey opened his presentation by stating that, “Nature has spent millions of year to keep water on the land; mankind has spent the last couple of generations figuring out ways to get water off the land as possible.” He then reviewed three case studies to demonstrate that ‘designing with nature’ has financial rewards.
To Learn More:
To download a copy of Patrick’s part of the presentation, click on this link to Designing with Nature: turning “green” into “gold”.
Convening for Action on Vancouver Island Partnership
The CAVI Partnership includes the British Columbia Water & Waste Association, the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia, the provincial Ministries of Environment and Community Services, and the Green Infrastructure Partnership.
