Sustainability organization, volunteers build green infrastructure in Phoenix, Arizona
Volunteers installed retrofits in downtown Phoenix. WMG, Phoenix Hostel & Cultural Center, Roosevelt Row and the city of Phoenix combined efforts for the environmental and beautification project. (Photo acknowledgment: Courtney Wadzita/DD)
Green Streets – Green Neighborhoods
In state of Arizona, the non-profit Watershed Management Group (WMG) aims to ensure long-term positive environmental resources for people and their neighborhoods as well as other areas,
Through its Green Streets – Green Neighborhoods program, WMG works with neighborhoods, homeowners’ associations, businesses, institutions, and informal community groups to promote and install green infrastructure practices to improve community livability.
This program provides citizens with the skills and resources to problem-solve and take action on issues of flooding, stormwater pollution, urban heat island effect, alternative transportation, and neighborhood beautification in their own neighborhoods.
A Green Street Retrofit in Downtown Phoenix
Watershed Management Group collaborated with Phoenix Hostel & Cultural Center, Roosevelt Row and the City of Phoenix to incorporate green infrastructure in a Phoenix neighborhood just east of downtown at a public volunteer workshop that was held on a Sunday.
“In five hours this area was transformed into something beautiful,” said Ryan Wood, WMG Phoenix co-op coordinator. “Approximately 30 volunteers gathered to install retrofits along Ninth Street between Portland and Roosevelt streets. The green infrastructures use curb cores to convey storm water from the street to bio-retention basins. In addition, they beautify the neighborhood.”
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