Green Infrastructure Community-of-Interest

The Green Infrastructure Community-of-Interest is a communication platform for informing British Columbians about a 'design with nature' approach to community development.     (Read more...)

Water Bucket provides 'home' for telling the story of British Columbia's Green Communities Initiative

The Green Communities Initiative provides a framework for helping local governments in British Columbia create more compact, more sustainable and greener communities.     (Read more...)

Green Infrastructure Partnership launches 'Topsoil Primer Set' at Bowker Creek Forum

Just How Do You Obtain a Performing Topsoil Layer, to Advance Rainwater Management and Water Conservation Goals?

The 'Topsoil Primer Set' synthesizes the experience of City of Surrey, the City of Courtenay and the District of North Vancouver in pioneering implementation of absorbent landscape policies and requirements.     (Read more...)

Sewage-powered energy centre serving Southeast False Creek is first of its kind in North America

$30 million False Creek Energy Centre located under the south end of the Cambie Bridge

This is a momentous occasion in Vancouver’s attempt to become a world leader in green energy and in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.     (Read more...)

A British Columbia Perspective: Distinguishing Natural from Engineered Green Infrastructure

Green Infrastructure defined in terms of 'Design with Nature' to create liveable communities & protect stream health

The Green Infrastructure Partnership has gone beyond what Ian McHarg envisioned with 'Design with Nature' by synthesizing Smart Growth principles with an infrastructure way-of-thinking.     (Read more...)