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Triple Bottom Line Cost Benefit Analysis Make the Case for Green Infrastructure in Pima County
How an Arizona County Quantified the Business Case for Two Green Infrastructure Development Sites—and Got the Go-Ahead for Even More
Triple Bottom Line Cost Benefit Analysis of Green Infrastructure/Low Impact Development (GI/LID) in Phoenix, AZ
The City of Phoenix Green Infrastructure Cost-Benefit Study is now available online. You can access the report here. Given the importance of heat stress in Phoenix, instead of using historical temperatures Autocase incorporated future climate change in to its...
The Mouse that Roared
On June 1st 2017, the news was that “383 US Climate Mayors commit to adopt, honor and uphold Paris Climate Agreement goals”. These mayors represent 68 million Americans. Here is but one example. The Pima County Board of Supervisors adopted resolutions “which state...
Sponge Cities
Funding Public Private Partnerships (PPP’s) share the same challenges, whether it's China or here in North America. Small projects need to be aggregated to reach the scale required for PPP’s. Large projects struggle to convey that the benefits of outweigh their hefty...
Help Us Understand the Barriers to Green Infrastructure
We'd love your input. Help us understand the barriers to green infrastructure by following this link to a quick questionnaire. We are working with Kirstin Newfield a PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto on "Disciplinary Perspectives on...
Trump, Africa, Climate Change, China, Millennials & Green Infrastructure
I very much enjoyed Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ("global leader, economist, policy maker and thinker on Finance and Economic Development") who was on the BBC World Service - Business Daily, January 20th 2017. She discusses Trump, Africa, Climate Change, China, Millennials,...
Green Infrastructure in Syracuse
Green Infrastructure Saves Greenbacks Syracuse's Onondaga Lake has been badly polluted since the 1800's. Green infrastructure is cleaning sewer water entering the lake, reducing capital spending, and improving social justice according to a recent summary from...
Mr. Trump – Save Our D.C. Swamp!
Mr. Trump has promised to drain the Washington swamp. We ran this through Autocase for Green Infrastructure to see what the value is of this "strategy". We centered the project at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (although we considered running it from Trump’s hotel at 1100...
How Our Clients are Using Autocase for Green Infrastructure
Autocase for Green Infrastructure can be used for determining the value of green infrastructure. It can be used in many ways - city or watershed analysis; large area or parks valuation; street design; site optimization; and, individual green infrastructure feature...
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