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Here's a tip about a great resource that may be disappearing. Researching green stormwater management I found a site with lots of useful information. Apart from good information on forests, green infrastructure, ecosystem services and stormwater management, it has...

"Canada’s aging infrastructure has and will increasingly fail in part due to the increased strain from the loss of green infrastructure ...The retention, creation and enhancement of natural infrastructure is an important component of any strategy to mitigate ......

Competing for Resources The OECD estimates USD 53 trillion in investment or the equivalent of an annual 2.5% of global GDP by the year 2030, to meet demand for infrastructure investment by 2030. [1] According to ACEC, a $3.6 trillion investment is needed by the year...

Steph Larocque (ii's COO) and I had an article published in the Sustainability (May 2016) issue of APWA Reporter ("Monetizing the value of resiliency", May 2016, p. 56. On the cover: Mission Creek Park, San Francisco (photo by John C. Parker) Here is a link to the...

Next week I'll be participating in a workshop to explore harmonization of value-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methodologies for use in sustainability decision-making. The workshop is to be held Monday, May 16. 2016, 7:30 am to noon in conjunction with...

I got my feet wet today. Cycling through the Don Valley to work today the trail was flooded. The obvious cause was the thunderstorm we had last night. The less obvious reason is that we have constrained the Don River and stopped it from going where it wants. By...

While some of us at Impact Infrastructure are a long way away from our University years the school year plays a big part in the company's calendar. With Spring sprung, our student interns have flown the coop (we still have our co-op student though). Natalie making her...

Infrastructure. Everyone says it is crumbling. North American infrastructure has suffered from years of neglect and under-investment. While the U.S. economy is very slowly recovering, the Canadian economy is in an economic slump. Half of North America is calling for...

Ben Rommelaere will be presenting a paper at the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (ICTD 2016 June 26-29 2016). The two of us wrote the paper and I'll post a link to the published paper after the conference in July. In the meantime here...

Spring is Sprung and Flowers are Popping Up Everywhere In May I'll be attending a workshop to explore harmonization of methodologies to assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of an investment. Hosted by Lise Laurin, CEO, of EarthShift Global, LLC, Lise...