Pew 35d ago

What if some of our best infrastructure solutions were already built into nature? 🌿 In Athens, Georgia, Mike Wharton from the Athens-Clarke County Sustainability Office is working with nature — not against it — to help manage flooding, reduce heat, improve water quality, and create spaces people actually want to spend time in. That’s the idea behind nature-based solutions: using things like greenways, river buffers, and urban forests to help communities become more connected and resilient as weather patterns change. And as Mike puts it, this is common sense: It’s about making communities safer, cooler, healthier and better places to live.