:: Green Infrastructure Resources and Publications

Below are a variety of available green infrastructure resources and publications, sorted by category. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, available as a free download here, to view some of the links on this page.

Recent Green Infrastructure Presentations

Karen Firehock. Urban Trees = Clean Water: Managing Community Forests for Community Water. Green Infrastructure Center. Presentation to the National Arbor Day Foundation. November 16, 2011.

Karen Firehock. Making the Case for Incoporating Natural Assets into Conservation Planning. Green Infrastructure Center. Presentation to the Virginia Conservation Network. September 17, 2011.

Karen Firehock. Using Green Infrastructure Planning to Conserve Native Plant Communities. The Virginia Native Plant Society 2011 Annual Meeting. September 17, 2011.

Karen Firehock. Conserving Northern Virginia’s Green Infrastructure. Green Infrastructure Center and the Northern Virginia Regional Commission. Discussion with Northern Virginia Land Trusts and Conservation Groups. September 7, 2011.

Karen Firehock. Green Infrastructure Models in the USFS Southern Region. Prepared for the Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service by the Green Infrastructure Center Inc. June 2011.

Karen Firehock. Green Infrastructure: Regional and Social Connections at Multiple Scales. Green Infrastructure Center. N. Va. Urban Forestry Quarterly Roundtable. May 5, 2011.

Karen Firehock. Green Assets in Nelson County. Green Infrastructure Center. Wintergreen Resort, Nelson County, VA. April 23, 2011.

Karen Firehock. Richmond City's Green Infrastructure Assessment. Green Infrastructure Center. City of Richmond. February 14, 2011.

Karen Firehock. Richmond City's Green Infrastructure Assessment. Green Infrastructure Center. Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens Winter Symposium - Shades of Green. February 2, 2011. Co-presenter: Mike Mather, City of Richmond Arborist.

Karen Firehock. Identifying and Sustaining Green Assets in Your Community. Green Infrastructure Center. 2010 Commonwealth Land Use and Zoning Conference. October 11, 2010.

Karen Firehock. A Green Infrastructure Approach to Restoring the Urban Forest. Green Infrastructure Center. MAC-ISA 2010 Annual Meeting. October 5, 2010.

Karen Firehock. Green Infrastructure Planning. Green Infrastructure Center. Nelson County, Virginia. July 15, 2010.

Karen Firehock. Blue/Green Infrastructure Study Accomack County, VA: Final Report. Green Infrastructure Center. Accomack County, Virginia. May 19, 2010.

Karen Firehock. Connecting Communities with Green Infrastructure Planning. Green Infrastructure Center. 9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference. Seattle, Washington. February 2010.

If you would like a copy of a presentation not listed here, please contact info@gicinc.org.

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Green Infrastructure Curriculum Guide

Karen Firehock. Green Infrastructure Curriculum Guide. Green Infrastructure Center. December 31, 2007, updated January 2012.

This guide was published with funding from the Virginia Department of Forestry through a grant from the USDA Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program and updated with support from VaDOF and the Chesapeake Bay Program. The guide was written by Karen Firehock who is adjunct lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia and Executive Director of the Green Infrastructure Center Inc.

This guide may be reproduced by anyone and nothing within the guide is copy written. It is requested that credit be given to the University of Virginia and the Green Infrastructure Center Inc. To make suggestions or corrections, please email info@gicinc.org.