Green Infrastructure Accelerator Project
Share your ideas for a resilient community!
The team at Miami Waterkeeper has been working with community members like yourself to understand local needs and priorities. We are on our way to identifying 6-8 underutilized open spaces that could be revitalized to reduce flooding, heat, and habitat loss. Our project focuses primarily on public land in areas with the greatest potential to advance equity.
As we identify sites, we are asking YOU, the residents and stakeholders of Miami-Dade, to give us feedback on proposed design and green infrastructure strategies to make sure they truly meet community needs and priorities.
What is Green Infrastructure?
Our communities can be redesigned to work with nature, providing flood protection, shade, habitat, water filtration, and green space. This is called "green infrastructure", which falls under a larger umbrella of nature based solutions (NBS). Some examples of green infrastructure solutions include:
- Living shorelines and streets
- Rain gardens
- Wetlands
- Urban forests
By implementing green infrastructure, we can manage climate risk and enhance quality of life for all who live in Miami-Dade. Miami Waterkeeper, in collaboration with community partners, is investigating green infrastructure opportunities in Miami-Dade County’s built environment.
Share your ideas for a resilient community!
We are looking for underutilized open spaces that could be revitalized to reduce flooding, heat, and habitat loss. Our project focuses primarily on public land in areas with the greatest potential to advance equity. Feedback will guide the selection of locations for a range of green infrastructure design solutions across Miami-Dade County. We are asking YOU, the residents and stakeholders of Miami-Dade, to suggest sites that you think can benefit from a green infrastructure project through our Community Input Tool
Community Input Tool About the Partners About the Funders
Share Your Input - Community Input Tool
Share your ideas for a resilient community through our online interactive map! This can be:
- Underused green space
- Parking lots and vacant lots
- Stretch of street that has no shade
- Area that always floods
- Schools, parks, trails, libraries, etc.
Go to our Community Input Tool to add your suggested locations for green infrastructure design projects.
About the Partners
Miami Waterkeeper (MWK) is a nonprofit organization that develops local solutions to global challenges. As a leading environmental advocate in South Florida, Miami Waterkeeper focuses on sustainable solutions for clean water and resilience against sea level rise.
Florida International University Wetland Ecosystems Research Lab (FIU) will analyze two existing GI projects to measure their effectiveness in reducing stormwater runoff and removing contaminants and nutrients. This research will help to inform communities about the effectiveness of local GI projects and will be presented at the Community Town Halls.
Local Office Landscape and Urban Design is a research-based design firm building innovative, resilient, and environmentally just landscapes.
One Water Academy is a nonprofit organization that seeks to equip governments, utilities, industry, academia, nonprofits, and the community with the skills and knowledge needed to prepare, respond, and recover from shocks and stresses for One Water resilience.
University of Miami College of Engineering (COE) is focused on educating the next generation of engineers to prepare societal leaders with strong scientific and technical skills combined with an ethical and moral outlook to impact academia, business, government and/or the non-profit sector.
People's Economic & Environmental Resilience (P.E.E.R.) Group is a nonprofit law firm that partners with communities and clients to develop evidence-based policies rooted in equity, resilience, and sustainability
University of Miami School of Law Environmental Justice Clinic (EJC) advocates for and empowers marginalized communities by combining civil rights, environmental, poverty, and public health law with community lawyering principles.
Everglades Law Center is a nonprofit law firm dedicated to representing the public interest in environmental and land use matters. The ELC will advocate for improved stormwater management policies, including green infrastructure, and regulations that speak to today's changing environmental conditions and tomorrow's climate future.
About the Funders
This project would not be possible without the generous support from our funders!
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded project funding through the South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program, which provides competitive grants to address the immediate and emerging ecological pressures and threats to nearshore waters, bays, estuaries, beaches, and coral reefs central to South Florida's economic well-being.
Pisces Foundation
The Pisces Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations to accelerate to a world where people and nature thrive together. The foundation supports early movers, innovative ideas, and bold leaders and organizations, adapting based on lessons learned. Pisces Foundation collaborates and creates purposeful networks, knowing that connection, joint priorities, and collective action accelerate progress and produce greater results.
