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Webinar Description:
Green Infrastructure (GI) is critical to addressing urgent and interrelated water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure challenges. GI has not, however, been widely adapted in U.S. municipalities -- particularly in small, rural, and tribal communities -- due to political barriers, misconceptions, and lack of knowledge or resources to successfully implement GI. In this introductory webinar, we will kick off our 10-part series with an overview of basic GI concepts, terminology, and funding sources; as well as challenges and opportunities facing communities and practitioners in the field of GI.
Learning Objectives:
1. Gain a basic understanding of what Green Infrastructure is and what it does for water quality and public health; particularly in rural, small, and tribal communities.
2. Understand what the Green Infrastructure Webinar Series can offer: resources, deep dives into topics concerning GI and its implementation, a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion and partnerships.
3. Identify some basic challenges and opportunities currently facing practitioners in the implementation of GI.
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.
