This webinar was hosted with the Urban Waters Learning Network and recorded on January 13, 2016.

Description: In this recorded webinar, you’ll learn about Baltimore’s Green Pattern Book, a tool created as part of the city’s Growing Green Initiative to help guide the greening of vacant land by city agencies, nonprofit organizations and individual residents. This tool outlines eight green project patterns (e.g. stormwater management, green parking, etc.) and provides site-selection criteria and installation/maintenance guidance for each. The tool provides a very useful template for other urban areas to follow. You’ll also learn about the Green Registry, a publicly accessible, interactive mapping tool that allows users to register and map their own greening activities on vacant land. The Green Registry is a project of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance (BNIA-JFI) and currently includes components for stormwater management and community-managed open space projects. BNIA-JFI is the Baltimore partner of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership, an effort led by the Urban Institute to build neighborhood information systems to support local policymaking and community building that is active in over 30 cities across the U.S.

Presenters: Mike Galvin, Urban Waters Federal Partnership Ambassador; J. Morgan Grove, USFS Baltimore Field Station Team Leader; Seema Iyer, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute Associate Director.