Go to LandscapeWebinars.org for the latest courses to earn CEUs. Join Southwest Environmental Finance Center, project manager, Joni Palmer on August 15th at 11am PDT for a live and recorded webinar on the funding of Green Infrastructure and how implement within your state.

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Webinar Description:
In order to implement Green Infrastructure, obtaining and effectively managing funding is essential. In this webinar, you will learn about funding sources for Green Infrastructure at both the federal and state levels. Federal funding includes the 319-grant program and the New EPA Grant OSG Program (Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grant Program). At the state level, funding opportunities include the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, as well as other state-specific incentives. In addition to obtaining funding, managing and utilizing funding effectively is required for ensuring the long-term life of Green Infrastructure. In this webinar, you will be introduced to benefit analysis, the triple bottom line, and cost comparisons. Finally, this webinar will explore methods for achieving the longevity and sustainability of GI through smart planning and thinking about the entire infrastructure lifecycle.

Joni Palmer
For over thirty years, joni's professional life has been a blend of practice and academia. She has worked for municipal, state, and federal government, and private design and planning firms in Albuquerque, Denver/Boulder, Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco. Her practice realms include: research consultation, community outreach and engagement strategist, community and environmental planning, and arts and cultural planning. And, she has taught at universities across the country, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Colorado-Boulder, and the University of New Mexico.

She joined the Southwest Environmental Finance Center as a Project Director in January 2020. Her work at the SWEFC draws on her experience in qualitative methods and research design, landscape architecture, and community and regional planning. She is interested in social, cultural, and financial aspects of water, especially in small to mid-sized communities, and rural and disadvantaged communities. Joni is currently exploring how arts and culture can be incorporated into water workforce development projects, and she is developing an approach to bringing workforce development, integrated asset management, and environmental justice into green infrastructure conversations.

Dr. palmer received a Bachelor of Science in City & Regional Planning and Design & Environmental Analysis from Cornell University, a Master of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is a member of the American Association of Geographers (specialty group member: cultural geography, landscape studies, water resources), American Planning Association (member of the Water Planning Network, president of the NM state chapter), and the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about funding opportunities at the federal and state level and identify the best fit for your specific project.
2. Understand the concepts of benefit analysis, triple bottom line and cost comparisons in the context of Green Infrastructure.
3. Review the Infrastructure Lifecycle and how to achieve sustainability in Green Infrastructure design.

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