If you have spent any time around our region’s schools and streets after a hard rain, you know stormwater has a way of going wherever it pleases. A free webinar this June looks at one increasingly popular way to manage it: turning paved-over schoolyards into green spaces that soak up runoff while serving the whole community.
Green Schoolyards as a Stormwater and Community Resilience Strategy is a no-cost, one-hour session hosted by the Environmental Finance Center Network (EFCN), with Greenprint Partners and the Trust for Public Land. It kicks off a three-part series on green schoolyards as a high-impact approach to climate resilience, public health, and stormwater compliance.
The Details
- When: Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EDT
- Cost: Free, with a certificate of attendance available to eligible participants
- Host: Environmental Finance Center Network
What You’ll Take Away
- How to build community buy-in around the many benefits of green schoolyards
- Practical steps to plan, implement, and sustain a project, plus how to sidestep common roadblocks
- How water utilities can meet water quality and stormwater requirements through green schoolyard projects
Who Should Tune In
This one is built for the kind of partners H2O Water Network works alongside every day: school district staff and educators, operators of small stormwater systems, water utility decision-makers, consultants, and the community organizations, PTOs, and watershed groups already teaming up with local schools. For communities across the Upper Ohio River Basin, green schoolyards are a practical way to manage runoff and create gathering spaces at the same time.
