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EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities hosts a variety of webinars on smart growth topics. If you have questions about upcoming webinars, please email smartgrowth@epa.gov.

Green Infrastructure: Achieving Stormwater Management, Neighborhood Stabilization, and Complete Streets Using Formula Funds

Partnership for Sustainable Communities Fourth Anniversary Webinar Series

The Partnership for Sustainable Communities invites you to attend a webinar on green infrastructure on Tuesday, July 16, from 2:30-3:45 Eastern.

The Partnership for Sustainable Communities—a collaboration of the U.S. Department and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—coordinates federal investments in infrastructure, facilities, and services to get better results for communities and use taxpayer money more efficiently. In celebration of its fourth anniversary on June 16, 2013, the Partnership is sponsoring a series of events, including a summer webinar series on housing, transportation, and the environment.

Experts from HUD, DOT, EPA, and the city of Indianapolis will discuss ways communities can use green infrastructure to manage stormwater, help revitalize neighborhoods, and create complete streets, and how federal formula funds can be used to finance green infrastructure.

Green infrastructure involves using landscape features to store, infiltrate, and evaporate stormwater. This reduces the amount of water draining into sewers and helps reduce the discharge of pollut¬ants into water bodies. Examples of green infrastructure include rain gardens, swales, constructed wetlands, and permeable pavements. Green infrastructure solutions can cost less than typical grey infrastructure solutions, such as installing large drainage pipes, and can be equally effective.

To learn about other webinars in the series, visit http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov.

Who Should Attend
Engineers, community leaders, state, local, and federal staff, and others interested in cost-effectively addressing stormwater management problems.

Webinar Details
Tuesday, July 16, from 2:30-3:45 Eastern

No pre-registration is required.
Click on https://epa.connectsolutions.com/epasmartgrowth. Log in as a guest.
Please test your computer before attending the meeting at http://admin.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm

The Connection Test checks your computer to make sure all system requirements are met. If you pass the first three steps of the test, then you are ready to participate in a meeting.
If you do not pass the test, perform the suggested actions and run the test again.

There is no conference call. Participants will hear the webinar through their computer speakers. Please check to be sure your speakers are turned on.

Our Built and Natural Environments

Current patterns of land use, building, and travel behavior have affected the environment in many ways. EPA's Smart Growth Program invites you to participate in a webinar on Wednesday, July 24, from 2:00 - 3:00 Eastern that examines how we could reduce those impacts as our nation's population grows.

The webinar will provide an overview of EPA's recent report, Our Built and Natural Environments: A Technical Review of the Interactions among Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Quality. Dr. Melissa Kramer, the report's author, and John Frece, director of EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities, will discuss how development affects human health and the environment and land use and transportation strategies that yield better environmental results.

Webinar Details
Wednesday, July 24, 2:00-3:00 Eastern

No pre-registration is required.
Click on https://epa.connectsolutions.com/epasmartgrowth . Log in as a guest.
Please test your computer before attending the meeting at http://admin.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm
- The Connection Test checks your computer to make sure all system requirements are met. If you pass the first three steps of the test, then you are ready to participate in a meeting.
- If you do not pass the test, perform the suggested actions and run the test again.

There is no conference call. Participants will hear the webinar through their computer speakers. Please check to be sure your speakers are turned on.

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EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities has supported the National Building Museum's Smart Growth Speaker Series since 2008. Visit the National Building Museum's Smart Growth page for audio recordings from these events.