Training A Green Infrastructure Workforce

by | Dec 8, 2015

Recorded webinar describing Civic Works’ and the Center for Watershed Protection’s efforts to create a certification-based stormwater training. Baltimore’s underserved residents with careers in the emerging stormwater industry, and Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s (PHS) experience training municipal employees, under‐skilled landscape laborers and at-risk youth in order to encourage and increase local capacity to implement and maintain green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) practices. Presenters include: Eli Allen, Director of Retrofit Baltimore (Civic Works); Hye Yeong Kwon, Executive Director (Center for Watershed Protection); and Glen Abrams, Director of Sustainable Communities (Pennsylvania Horticultural Society).