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Why We Need Green Infrastructure

Green infrastructure is increasingly recognized as a way to address the environmental challenges of our expanding cities. This approach involves building (and often rebuilding) cities to work with natural processes while mitigating environmental problems and improving quality of life.

New York Restoration Project’s parks, gardens, and constructed wetlands are a kind of green infrastructure. As these projects are scaled up to make meaningful environmental improvements though, how do they affect different communities? Can they be designed to address the legacies of environmental injustice? What do we mean by “resilient cities,” and what is the role of green infrastructure in building them?

Join us on Zoom as we host scientist Peter Groffman for a presentation and discussion on how emerging research on urban ecosystems can inform the design and implementation of the next generation of green infrastructure. This conversation will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube. Refer to this page for updates.

Peter Groffman, Ph.D. is a professor at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and Brooklyn College Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. His career of trans-disciplinary research ranges from the forest soils of New Hampshire to the streams and lawns of Baltimore. His work has shown how cities can have surprisingly high levels of ecosystem function and often in unexpected ways. Groffman was a Convening Lead Author for the 2013 U.S. National Climate Assessment Chapter on Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and a lead author for the Second (Wetlands) and Third (North America) Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Program on Climate Change (IPCC).

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When: Wed., Jun. 24, 2020 at 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm

Green infrastructure is increasingly recognized as a way to address the environmental challenges of our expanding cities. This approach involves building (and often rebuilding) cities to work with natural processes while mitigating environmental problems and improving quality of life.

New York Restoration Project’s parks, gardens, and constructed wetlands are a kind of green infrastructure. As these projects are scaled up to make meaningful environmental improvements though, how do they affect different communities? Can they be designed to address the legacies of environmental injustice? What do we mean by “resilient cities,” and what is the role of green infrastructure in building them?

Join us on Zoom as we host scientist Peter Groffman for a presentation and discussion on how emerging research on urban ecosystems can inform the design and implementation of the next generation of green infrastructure. This conversation will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube. Refer to this page for updates.

Peter Groffman, Ph.D. is a professor at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and Brooklyn College Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. His career of trans-disciplinary research ranges from the forest soils of New Hampshire to the streams and lawns of Baltimore. His work has shown how cities can have surprisingly high levels of ecosystem function and often in unexpected ways. Groffman was a Convening Lead Author for the 2013 U.S. National Climate Assessment Chapter on Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and a lead author for the Second (Wetlands) and Third (North America) Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Program on Climate Change (IPCC).

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