It’s Easy Being Green: Green Infrastructure as a Sustainable Solution to Urban Stormwater Management

This five part blog series will investigate green infrastructure, what it is, how it works, and how it is applied to stormwater management in cities. Part 1 will introduce some basic concepts of what stormwater is and why it needs to be managed, Part 2 will look at some of the issues with stormwater in cities and some of the environmental and public health risks of improper management, Part 3 presents current techniques in America for traditional stormwater management and some of their failings, Part 4 provides some practical examples of green infrastructure and how it can be applied in practice, and finally Part 5 concludes on the use of green infrastructure as a sustainable solution to stormwater management.