Who We Are

The Conservation Fund’s Green Infrastructure Leadership Program was created in 1999 to build the capacity of land conservation professionals and their partners to undertake strategic conservation activities that are proactive, systematic, well integrated and applied at multiple scales. The program is a cooperative effort of the Fund and multiple public and private partners.

Greeninfrastructure.net was developed by The Conservation Fund with funding provided by USDA Cooperative Forestry and the Surdna Foundation.

Support also was provided by the Green Infrastructure Work Group, a collection of local, state and federal government agencies and non-governmental organizations that originally came together in August 1999 to begin developing a training program that would help communities and their partners make green infrastructure an integral part of local and regional plans and community decisions.

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North Carolina Conservation Based Affordable Housing

 

The Community of Practice is a virtual hub of knowledge and ideas – shared among peers – to promote the application of green infrastructure concepts and principles to the nation’s conservation priorities. Learn more »

Featured Resource

 

Series of ten case studies featuring green infrastructure success stories from around the country.

 


 

 

Green Infrastructure book cover
Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities by Mark A. Benedict and Edward T. McMahon is an illustrative review of advances in smart land conservation and large scale thinking that provides a green solution to many of the problems associated with sprawling development.