Meetings for the Green Infrastructure Working Group will be the first Wednesday of each month from 12PM to 1:30PM. The location will change from month to month–please check the triadsustainability.org calendar.
Work Group mission statement:
Our mission is to assist Piedmont Triad communities develop a regional vision and establish local strategies and policies for the protection, restoration, and stewardship of an interconnected network of natural and agricultural resources that serve essential functions for healthy ecosystems, economies and citizens.
Integrating the region’s natural, agricultural, and open space assets. This innovative strategy provides an ecologically based infrastructure surrounding and within our built environment to preserve natural service functions and the associated economic benefits. Such infrastructure maintains regional vitality and character and is a core element of sustainability. The green infrastructure will incorporate conservation, recreational and working lands as well as urban green-spaces to offer regional green connectivity. The environmental dimension of the triple bottom line will be maximized through this element to identify environmental conservation and open space priorities.
Work Group Leader: Kyle Laird with Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation at kylel@partnc.org
What is Green Infrastructure?
Examples of Green Infrastructure in the Piedmont Triad:
Hay fields and wooded area--Western Surry County
Riparian buffer with native vegitation--Ararat River, Surry County
Bathabara Park wetlands--Winston-Salem
Farmland and forest--Colfax, NC
Highrock Waterfowl Impoundment--Caswell Gameland, Caswell County, NC
Examples of Urban Green Infrastructure:
Street Side Bio-retention Swale
Green Roof
Green Infrastructure Working Group meeting agendas:
June 6, 2011
July 6, 2011
August 3, 2011
Green Infrastructure Working Group meeting notes:
July 6, 2011
August 3, 2011
October 5, 2011
November 2, 2011
March 14, 2012
May 9, 2012
Glad to see this work being done.
Thanks Linda. If you are interested in joining a work group, just let us know. Also please visit http://www.piedmontvoice.org to read, start and/or join conversations with other PT residents.
Kyle
Thank you so much for the very informative webinar of yesterday. Do you have a record of it so I can share it with others. Thanks so much!
Thanks Veronica. I hope that you received an email I sent out to attendees about the links on the Piedmont Together website. If not, please look on the home page of this website or on http://triadsustainability.org/educate/what-is-green-infrastructure/