Green infrastructure and walkability for healthy communities Evidence for what makes healthy communities is mounting. At the heart of healthy neighbourhoods are two commonalities: walkability and green infrastructure. This article on Place Makers...
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This past April the Ministries of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) and Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) released ‘Watershed Planning in Ontario: Guidance for Land Use Planning Authorities’ on the Environmental Registry. The provincial...
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At the recent Canadian Network of Asset Managers Conference in Windsor, Ontario, GIO had the pleasure of presenting, in partnership with York Region, on Green Infrastructure in Municipal Asset Management Planning. Over the course of the...
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1. Community-driven green infrastructure projects can help inspire and ignite neighbourhood revitalization. Bronzville, a neighbourhood in south Chicago that has a rich cultural history but has seen decades of disrepair, is seeing a...
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The 6th Annual Grey to Green Conference is taking place May 15-16, 2018 at the Chestnut Conference Centre in Toronto. Grey to Green focuses on green infrastructure design, research and policy and connects professionals working to integrate...
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The Ontario Ministry of Infrastructure has released a Long Term Infrastructure Plan (LTIP) for Ontario. The LTIP focuses largely on provincially-owned grey infrastructure including a section on the state of provincially owned assets by each...
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Imagine our parklands, gardens, natural heritage features, green roofs and other green infrastructure were appreciated and managed for the services they provide and treated as the community assets that they are. GIO has been advocating for this...
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Paris’ Promenade Plantée: This 3 mile walkway that became a park in 1993 is so beautiful it’s hard to believe it used to be an abandoned viaduct. Seoul’s Skygarden: The capital of South Korea recently converted a 1970s elevated highway into a...
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Last week was world water week. In its honour we are highlighting recent research that relates to green infrastructure and water, including a report on the real estate sector’s role in managing water, a case study on barriers to green...
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New green infrastructure in Delhi Inspired by similar projects in Mexico, Delhi Metro has installed vertical gardens along the pillars in some of the busiest intersections in the city. This new green infrastructure will do more than just beautify...
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A new study examining the use of green infrastructure in 5 communities considered leaders in the field – Singapore, Berlin, Philadelphia, Melbourne and Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city found that all of these geographies face similar...
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The Government of Ontario has recently posted several public notices on the Environmental Registry of the Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) relating to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Two postings speak specifically to the role that...
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