The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues (AAAS EPI Center) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (EPA OW) invite you to join a panelist conversation featuring representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and communities working on green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. Panelists will share their experiences accessing and utilizing federal resources for green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. Additionally, panelists will share opportunities, challenges, barriers, and lessons-learned from the design and planning to implementation to operations and maintenance of green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. This facilitated discussion is the first in a series that will explore NGO and community perspectives on accessing and utilizing federal resources for green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. The second event will feature state perspectives. This virtual event is open to federal employees and contractors, NGO staff working on research, programs, and policies relevant to green infrastructure and nature-based solutions and interested community members.

The two-hour event will map the critical, science-based issues and decisions officials are contending with regarding green infrastructure and nature-based solutions and the extent to which existing federal support for those installations is accessible and useful, and where it is inaccessible and why. The NGO and community discussion will focus on the following topics: Leveraging Evidence, Expertise, and Tools for Advancing Resiliency, Accessing and Utilizing Federal Funding Sources, and Centering Equity and the Needs of Frontline Communities.

Panelists

• Angela Chalk, Founder and Executive Director, Healthy Community Services
• Paula Conolly, Director, Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange
• Harriet Festing, Executive Director, Anthropocene Alliance
• Caroline Koch, Water Policy Director, WaterNow Alliance