This guide provides information on how to implement smaller green roofs.

Introduction to principles of bioretention systems (rain gardens, bioswales) and overview of design and construction. Focuses on visual indicators to assess performance and maintenance needs. Also includes visual indicators for other urban stormwater management practices, including permeable pavement and filter strips.

This document includes an actionable plan to develop a REPI (Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program) resilience project for military installations and project partners using nature based solutions.

This chapter provides in-depth specifications for deciding what tree species to plant. It does not include a species list but explains what to look for at the site to determine what species to consider.

This report includes the Urban Forest Climate and Health Adaptation Menu, which presents information
and ideas for optimizing the climate and human health outcomes of urban forestry projects and provides
professionals who are working at the intersection of climate, public health, and urban forestry with resources
to support climate adaptation planning and activities. Notably, it does not provide specific recommendations or
guidance for any particular place; rather, it offers a range of action opportunities at different scales that can be

Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT) is a tool that assists water sector utilities in assessing climate-related risks to utility assets and operations. Throughout CREAT’s five modules, users consider climate impacts and identify adaptation options to increase resilience. Modules include: climate awareness, scenario development, consequences and assets, daptation planning, and risk assessment. 

This website is organized into 10 chapters describing different elements essential for communities interested in implementing coastal and waterfront smart growth. By clicking on the individual chapters on the left side bar, you will get a description of each Coastal and Waterfront Smart Growth Element, how this relates to the Coastal and Waterfront Issues, Tools and Techniques you can use in your community, and Case Studies of successes.

This storymap provides a brief introduction to the development and potential uses of USGS' CoSMos tool, which makes detailed predictions of storm-induced coastal flooding, erosion, and cliff failures over large geographic scales.

This guide is meant ti inform local governments on community based public-private partnerships and alternative market-based tools for integrated green stormwater infrastructure.

The Conservation Webinar Portal provides live and on-demand webinars on multi-discipline topics by specialists primarily for the East service area states and the Caribbean.

This guide provides information on designing and maintaining green roofs in arid western states. It provides information on when certain types of green roofs are most appropriate and their different benefits.

The Data Access Viewer (DAV) allows a user to search for and download elevation (lidar), imagery, and land cover data for the coastal U.S. and its territories. 

These reforms acknowledge the shared responsibility for disaster response and recovery, aim to reduce the complexity of FEMA, and build the nation’s capacity for the next catastrophic event. The law contains 56 distinct provisions that require FEMA policy or regulation changes for full implementation, and includes discussion on mitigation strategies that include NBS. This page provides an overview of each provision.

Individualized guidance for each US ecoregion detailing the plants appropriate for pollinator gardens in that region.

Individualized guidebooks for each US ecoregion detailing the pollinators and plants appropriate for pollinator gardens in that region.

This document highlights engineering with nature (EWN) principles/projects by providing illustrations and descriptions of constructed projectsaround the contiguous U.S. and globe.

EnviroAtlas data and resources can be used to inform a range of projects, from regional to local scales. This easy to use, interactive mapping application does not require any GIS skills to use and provides ready access to 536 map layers likegreen space per capita, mammal species richness or percent developed area and multiple analysis tools. EPA uses this tool for uses like project implementation (e.g. permitting) and designing targeted outreach strategies, but the site includes a repository of diverse ways this tool can be used in advancing all types of environmental work. 

This resource hub includes several links that EPA has backed to help communities implement green stormwater infrastructure projects. These include links to maps, a green infrastructure scorecard tool, planning/design/and implementation tools and guidbeooks, links to funding opportunities, links to climate modeling tools, collaboration guides/support, and a library of resources specific to implementing green stormwater infrastructure to meet Clean Water Act requirements.

This report contains a literature review that explores the development of a tool that guides the selection, configuration, and location of WRC.

This resource proposes values specific to green infrastrcutre and their associated benefits that can be used to standardize the BCA process for green infrastructure project applicants.