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The food just kept coming: heaps of steaming noodles, pillowy pork buns, glistening spears of Chinese broccoli.

On behalf of the Environmental Finance Center Network (EFCN) through the Capacity Building for Sustainable Communities program, this report presents recommendations for implementing and financing green infrastructure elements of the Mid-South Regional Greenprint Vision Plan so that the region can enhance water quality while simultaneously extending its network of trails for recreation

In 2012, Warrington Township, Pennsylvania passed a voter-approved referendum committing $3 million to open space protection. The EFC worked with Warrington Township to identify ways in which the community could leverage its open space dollars to serve multiple community priorities and gain additional benefits the community had not identified.

Welcome to the UMD Environmental Finance Center’s Green Infrastructure Financing Map!Here you will find incredible green infrastructure financing stories from diverse communities across the country showcased in an interesting and accessible way.

Learn about the innovative financing behind 20 communities’ green infrastructure program. View and download the full collection of infographics featured in our Green Infrastructure Financing Map.Attachments

This paper contains the stories of six watershed organizations considered "successful": the Charles River Watershed Association, South Yuba River's Citizen League, Amigos Bravos, Blackfoot Challenge, Elizabeth River Project, and Friends of the Mississippi River. Success was gauged by the organizations' demonstrated accomplishments and by their growth in members and annual budge

SAGE HAMPTON is a donation funded program managed by Hampton, Virginia's Clean City Commission. The program supports installation of gardens in roads rights-of-way to help slow and filter stormwater runoff entering local waterways. SAGE's goals include beautifying the local streetscape, filtering stormwater, boosting community pride and appreciation, and facilitating&

Written by Brianna Rhodes

This article originally appeared in Maryland Today.The buzz around Tawes Plaza on Monday morning isn’t the sound of students’ cellphones or whizzing electric scooters, it’s what’s underfoot: a vibrant mural of bees floating between black-eyed Susans and sunflowers.

Written by Brianna Rhodes

This story originally appeared in Maryland Today, written by Allison Eatough ’97

Twenty minutes north of Maryland’s bustling downtown Bethesda, Montgomery County’s vast Agricultural Reserve could be another planet.