Using ‘Living’ Green Infrastructure to Build a Resilient Community - The Wellington County ‘Green Legacy’ Story

This session will explore green infrastructure in rural communities based on recent research at the University of Guelph. Examples presented will illustrate how green infrastructure is a cost effective tool that can address many challenges that rural communities face, as well as broader societal issues such as climate change impacts and biodiversity loss. Low-impact development stormwater management innovations in rural non-point source water protection will be highlighted. The session will also focus on the Wellington County Green Legacy Program, through which over 2-million trees have been planted since 2004. These are helping to increase forest cover, build resilience to anticipated climate change impacts, increase community capacity around a nurtured land ethic and create new economic activity.

 

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