Green Infrastructure: Free Services Included

This blog post was written by Sarah Mason as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. On my first trip to New Orleans, I did a lot of thinking. Bourbon Street is notorious for hosting a good time, and for good reason. Unfortunately, the cost of a good time includes a lot of abandoned cans, plastic cups, and bottles left in the street. When it rains some of the water joins the neglected…

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How Does Local Knowledge Change Watershed Management?

This blog post was written by Rebecca Parsons as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Picture a big decision being made about stormwater management in your city. What do you envision? A fancy boardroom in a government building, long and nondescript table, figures in suits gathered around it? While this is what many of us imagine, the picture of decision-making in cities across the nation, and across the world, is set to…

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