How Investments in Natural Resource Assets Can Strengthen Your Community’s Bottom Line and Make It Safer and Healthier
Date: October 4, 2018
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Webinar access info is below
The natural resources in your community not only help maintain the life support systems for people and wildlife, they also provide services that complement municipal and state budgets. This webinar will help you better understand and identify the natural assets in your own community and how to protect and restore them for improved water quality, flood resiliency, recreational opportunities and many other benefits. We’ll look at the concept of “ecosystem services” and how they can help save money and avoid potential costs. Through examples of natural infrastructure projects (also known as nature based solutions) from around the country and Vermont, we’ll explore how communities can fully engage their natural landscape to provide multiple co-benefits to communities and residents – often at a fraction of the cost of grey infrastructure. This presentation is designed for audiences who may be new to these concepts, including town conservation commissioners, town planners and planning commissioners, and anyone interested building a resilient Vermont where both people and nature thrive.
Hosted by The Nature Conservancy, the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Institute at UVM, and the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
The webinar will be recorded and available online afterwards.
Webinar Access Information
To Join, click the URL: https://zoom.us/j/289959345
Please use your computer’s audio delivered through Zoom.
Or Telephone audio:
Dial:
US: 646-876-9923 or 669-900-6833
Meeting ID: 289 959 345
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US: +16468769923,,980427756# or +16699006833,,980427756#
Hope you can join us!
Marc
Marc Companion
Green Infrastructure Outreach
Lake Champlain Sea Grant Institute – University of Vermont, and
Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
Marc.Companion@uvm.edu | cell: 802-373-0250