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Green Streets - Green Neighborhoods

Green Infrastructure for Southwestern Neighborhoods
Green Infrastructure manual

Through Green Streets - Green Neighborhoods, WMG works with neighborhoods, homeowners' associations, businesses, institutions, and informal community groups to promote and install green infrastructure practices to improve community livability. Our 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.

 

NEWLY UPDATED — Green Infrastructure for Southwestern Neighborhoods Available for Free Download

Watershed Management Group's updated Green Infrastructure for Southwestern Neighborhoods manual is available for download online.

Green Infrastructure for Southwest Neighborhoods manual

Your Support Needed: Green Streets Policy for City of Tucson Nearly Complete!

Green Streets water harvesting basin with flowersFor the past year, Watershed Management Group has been leading a collaborative process between the City of Tucson Department of Transportation and many other stakeholders to develop a Green Streets policy.

The policy would require that stormwater harvesting features (such as vegetated streetside basins) be integrated into publicly-funded roadway development and re-development projects. These features would be included from the beginning of the design process in order to ensure their effectiveness. We already know how to design roadways to promote water conservation and enhance our urban forest. Now, the City of Tucson is taking the necessary steps to integrate this knowledge into new projects to promote a more livable Tucson and a healthy urban watershed.Green Streets water harvesting basin

Mayor and Council will consider this policy at a study session on May 29.  Please voice your support for this policy by writing or calling Mayor Rothschild and your City Council representative before this meeting!  For more information, download the Green Streets policy fact sheet or contact Tory Syracuse at tsyracuse@watershedmg.org or 520-396-3266, ext. 6.

Video: Sierra Vista residents transform park with green infrastructure

Watershed Management Group has partnered with the City of Sierra Vista, Ariz., to help green the city while conserving water through the use of green infrastructure.  This video, made by the Cochise Water Project, shows great footage from two recent WMG workshops in which volunteers turned a community-funded park into a stormwater-capturing green oasis for the community.  

Green Infrastructure Webinar Series Complete and Available

In June, WMG completed our webinar series on green infrastructure.  All three webinars were recorded and are available here.  Topics include:

  • Green Infrastructure Case Studies
  • Community-Based Green Infrastructure
  • Green for All: Green Infrastructure and Jobs

 

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