Summary
The Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and Earth Genome have developed a decision-support tool called the Green Infrastructure Support Tool. GIST has been designed to assist corporate decision-making about sustainable water use. This web-based, data-driven tool helps water-intensive corporations make better decisions about how much and where to invest in green infrastructure in order to deliver better storage, higher quality water and flood control.
The pilot tool focuses on helping Dow Chemical screen potential sites in a Texas river basin where the company can restore river-floodplain connectivity and wetlands to enhance upstream storage and offset the need for more expensive gray alternatives.
Our goal includes scalability of the tool for the U. S. and India.
Partners
- CH2M Hill
- Dow Chemical
- Earth Genome
- PepsiCo
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development - Water Cluster
- World Wildlife Fund
Personnel
Benjamin Ruddell
Hongkai Gao
Glen Low
John Sabo
Funding
Earth Genome