The Greenprint Resource Hub is designed to help planners, policymakers, and the public learn about greenprints and how they can be utilized for conservation.
Greenprint Benefits
Greenprinting helps identify nature-based solutions to address challenges facing communities.
These solutions can range from conserving natural lands to protect drinking water, preserving working lands to support rural economies, restoring habitat to protect wildlife, and expanding urban forests and creating parks to improve community health.
Learn about greenprints
A greenprint is a plan or tool that reveals the range of benefits provided by natural infrastructure in community planning. The collaborative process brings together people and science early in the planning stage to identify the economic and social benefits of nature-based solutions.
Greenprints in numbers
These conservation initiatives are sprouting worldwide to shape a greener future.
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95
Number of greenprints completed or in progress
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33
US states with greenprints
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10
Landscape types covered by greenprints
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5
Countries with greenprints
Featured Stories
Chennai Greenprint
Urban planning framework with emphasis on blending landscape/watershed level conservation planning and urban development process to identify situations where development and conservation may conflict.
Pajaro Compass
Highlights the multiple benefits of the Pajaro River watershed focusing on six themes: water resources, biodiversity, agriculture, carbon and soil health, recreation and community.
Maryland Greenprint
This assessment ranked the components of the green infrastructure network for their relative ecological value, protection of fisheries, agriculture and vulnerability to development.