Education as Climate Infrastructure
Community Green trains residents to design, advocate for, and steward green infrastructure in their own neighborhoods.
What Is Green Infastructure?
Green infrastructure is how we weave nature and her systems of water, air and temperature regulation into our cities to cool them, help manage water, and provide healthy outdoor environments that connect us.
Why Do We Need Green Infrastructure?
Connecting People with Nature and Each Other.
Community Green is a nonprofit initiative that introduces a scalable framework for community-led green infrastructure advocacy. It addresses a persistent gap in climate-resilient urban development: while cities increasingly adopt policies and incentives that support green infrastructure, community members are often not equipped to participate meaningfully in the planning and development processes where these solutions are decided.
This disconnect leads to conflict, delays, missed opportunities, and inequitable access to green space — particularly in communities most vulnerable to climate impacts. Community Green treats education as climate infrastructure: building the civic capacity and technical fluency needed to turn communities from passive recipients of green infrastructure into its active co-authors.
The Problem
Conventional urban water systems move water away as fast as possible — externalizing flooding, pollution, and long-term cost. There is a better way.v
The Framework
Community Green aligns education, workforce development, and real-world pilot projects around a central learning hub — creating a self-reinforcing system for scaling green infrastructure.
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