Implementing Green Infrastructure at Multiple Scales
Date: July 16-19, 2012
Location: Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Description: This course focuses on applications and techniques for the implementation of green infrastructure at multiple scales. The four-day course highlights leadership and stakeholder engagement, financing and network management, legal and regulatory issues, and support tools for the optimization of the decision-making process. Sponsors are The Conservation Fund in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration and the US Fish & Wildlife Service.
To register: www.conservationfund.org/course/gi_201_implementing_green_infrastructure_multiple_scales_pilot_course
Strategic Conservation Planning Using the Green Infrastructure Approach
Date: March 5-9, 2012
Location: Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Description: Sponsored by The Conservation Fund, USDA, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, this five-day workshop provides a strategic approach for prioritizing conservation opportunities and a planning framework for conservation and development. Participants will learn how the green infrastructure approach can be used to connect environmental, social, and economic health across urban, suburban, and rural settings.
Learn more: http://www.conservationfund.org/course/strategic_conservation_planning_using_green_infrastructure_approach
Strategic Conservation Planning Using the Green Infrastructure Approach
September 26-30, 2011
National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), Shepherdstown, WV
This introductory course provides participants with a strategic approach for prioritizing conservation opportunities and a planning framework for conservation and development. Participants will learn how the green infrastructure approach can be used to connect environmental, social, and economic health across urban, suburban, and rural settings.
Learn more:
http://www.conservationfund.org/course/strategic_conservation_planning_using_green_infrastructure_approach
Strategic Conservation Planning Using a Green Infrastructure Approach (ECS 3146)
This introductory course provides participants with a strategic approach for prioritizing conservation opportunities and a planning framework for conservation and development – integrating the green and the grey. Through hands-on class projects, lectures, and case studies, participants will experience firsthand how the green infrastructure approach can be used to connect environmental, social, and economic health across urban, suburban, and rural settings. Participants will also learn how green infrastructure planning can serve
as a tool to inform land use decisions and build consensus among diverse interests.
The course will take place at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), Shepherdstown, WV, April 11-15 2011.
For more information visit:http://www.conservationfund.org/node/239/
National Green Infrastructure Conference 2011
The Inaugural 2011 National Green Infrastructure Conference is a gathering of policy-makers, practitioners, and on-the-ground implementers of green infrastructure practices and design from around the country. This is the first official conference of the National Green Infrastructure Community of Practice.
To learn more, visit: http://www.greeninfrastructure.net/GIC2011
Balancing Nature and Commerce in Communities that Neighbor Public Lands
Event Date:
Monday, April 18, 2011
Event Location:
National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV
Event Description:
During this three-day course teams will focus on the economics, natural resources and community character of their areas and learn valuable partnership-building skills. At the end of the course, teams will leave with a specific action plan for implementing a collaborative project when they return home.
More Information:
http://www.conservationfund.org/
Planning for Climate Change Using a Green Infrastructure Approach
| Event Dates: | April 26-28, 2010 |
| Event Location: | National Conservation Training Center Shepherdstown, WV |
| Description: | Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in this pilot offering! Participants will have the opportunity to plan for potential climate change impacts (storm surge/sea level rise, changes in precipitation and temperature) using a green infrastructure approach as a guide for developing effective adaptation and mitigation strategies. Through hands-on class projects using data layers for two coastal communities, and lectures from cutting edge experts and on-the-ground practitioners, participants will learn and experience first hand how Green Infrastructure can facilitate climate change planning. |
| Contact: | http://www.conservationfund.org/ |
| Other Info: | Registration deadline is April 9, 2010. |
Strategic Conservation Planning Using a Green Infrastructure Approach
| Event Dates: | March 8-12, 2010 |
| Event Location: | Shepherdstown, WV |
| Description: | This introductory course provides participants with a strategic approach for prioritizing conservation opportunities and a planning framework for conservation and development ” integrating the green and the grey. Through hands-on class projects, lectures, and case studies, participants will experience firsthand how the green infrastructure approach can be used to connect environmental, social, and economic health across urban, suburban, and rural settings. Participants will also learn how green infrastructure planning can serve as a tool to inform land use decisions and build consensus among diverse interests. |
| Contact: | http://www.conservationfund.org/course/strategic_conservation_planning_using_green_infrastructure_approach |
| Audience: | This event is applicable to individuals from a variety of disciplines, sectors, and scales (i.e., national, regional, statewide, local) who are engaged in land use planning and management. |
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