INSITE Director John Surdyk recently spoke at the Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development on building and maintaining infrastructure. In a panel with the MIchael Pagano, Dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois - Chicago, Surdyk identified many of the elements of green infrastructure projects for dozens of newly elected MIdwestern and Canadian legislators. The panel explored the types of public benefits provided by different technologies and the complementary and potentially positive interactions between "gray" and "green" infrastructure when deployed with strategic intent at a regional level. The confluence of demographic pressures, aging roadways and sewerage systems, and energy needs are driving the adoption of green public works projects and sustainable real estate developments in places from Kansas City to Toronto. The challenges intriduced by these pressures also present opportunities worth billions of dollars for social entrepreneurs and creative nonprofit, government and business leaders who can deliver social AND economic value.
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