The American experience provides a frame of reference for comparing the effectiveness of a top-down regulatory approach with the 'bottom-up' educational approach in British Columbia.
Sustainable Dubuque (Iowa) – report cover (360p)
The District will stay within its rainfall budget, approach carbon balance, create sustainable jobs and housing, and reinforce the importance of connectivity and diversity within the city.
“Two complementary strategies can ‘green’ a community and its infrastructure: first, preserving as much as possible of the natural green infrastructure; and secondly, promoting designs that soften the footprint of development,” explains Kim Stephens.
“Experience shows that intra-region communication among local government practitioners is the exception rather than the rule. Showcasing Innovation creates opportunities to have conversations where learning takes place,” stated Paul Ham.
APEGBC6 – Susan Rutherford (120p)
The philosophical underpinning of the green infrastructure approach is a design with nature way-of-thinking and acting. This is very intuitive. It is about ensuring that when we plan our communities, we keep the ecological systems that we rely upon in the forefront of our thinking.
Emphasis is on educating stakeholders regarding the benefits of a design with nature approach to community planning and land development, and facilitating adoption of this approach.
The coming together of a group of change agents in October 1997 set in motion a chain of events that has reverberated through time.
The seminar informed local government and land use practitioners about senior government expectations for applying a Beyond the Guidebook approach to implement ‘green solutions’ that actually protect stream health.
The Green Infrastructure Wiki is an open source movement. It is providing a conceptual framework that can accommodate the range of scales and functions described by the green infrastructure term.
Green Streets Canada is the flagship program of the Tree Canada Foundation, which is a national organization dedicated to raising awareness among Canadians of the importance of Canada’s urban forests.
