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Gary Belan
Director, Clean Water Program
Department: Conservation
Area of Focus: Gary works to promote green infrastructure in the United States, a concept that includes specific engineering and policy tools to improve the way communities manage their water resources. Gary works with a variety of groups to achieve this goal, including grassroots environmental organizations, business interests, as well as local, state and federal government agencies. He particularly loves the fact that his work allows him to empower local environmental groups, while simultaneously working on federal policy.
Background: Gary joined American Rivers in May 2003. Prior to American Rivers, he worked as a project engineer for the Clark Construction Group, working on large commercial building projects.
Education: B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia, and M.A. in Environmental Policy from American University
Favorite River: Potomac River
Blog Posts By This Author
Celebrating Green Streets in Maryland
December 15, 2011 | Clean Water, Greening Water Infrastructure, Stormwater & Sewage
Exciting news for everyone on the green infrastructure front! Congresswoman Donna Edwards is hosting an event in Evanston, MD tonight (Thursday, Dec. 15th) to celebrate the innovative green street in the town as well as highlight the report Green for All released with us on green jobs.
Read more »New Report: Investments in Clean Water Could Create Millions of Jobs
October 5, 2011 | Clean Water, Stormwater & Sewage
American Rivers has partnered with Green for All and the Economic Policy Institute to compose the report “Water Works: Rebuilding Infrastructure, Creating Jobs and Greening the Environment”. The results of the research that was put into the report show that investments in our water infrastructure would yield 1.9 million American jobs and add $265 billion to the economy.
Read more »Save it if you’ve got it: The case for water efficiency in the Great Lakes
May 12, 2011 | Greening Water Infrastructure, Clean Water, Water Efficiency, Water Supply
Water efficiency in the Great Lakes is more imortant than you would think. I wrote a guest blog on the Healing our Waters website HealthyLakes.org on the issue.
Read more »Smooth Driving on Green Streets
April 29, 2011 | Clean Water, Greening Water Infrastructure
Today I’m attending the Green Streets Green Jobs forum in Silver Spring, MD. I’m actually speaking on a panel right before lunch about partnerships and funding opportunities for green funding through the EPA’s State Revolving Fund program. For the past several years American Rivers has been working very hard to ensure that money from this fund be used for green projects that improve water quality and protect rivers.
Read more »Great Lakes Restoration Funding
April 21, 2011 | Clean Water, Greening Water Infrastructure, Stormwater & Sewage
Money has been appropriated for this years Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant program. This should have an impact on Green Infrastructure projects being funded.
Read more »Green Infrastructure – It’s not just for environmentalists anymore
December 2, 2010 | Clean Water, Greening Water Infrastructure
Lately I’ve been working with a lot of groups in the green infrastructure community of practice. Basically organizations or companies that are directly involved in the implementation of green roofs, urban trees, permeable pavement and the like. So you can imagine how pleased I was to see that American Rivers was featured in Greenroofs.com week in review video
Read more »EPA Confirms Milwaukee as a Leader on Green Infrastructure
August 23, 2010 | Clean Water, Global Warming, Greening Water Infrastructure Read more »
Go gold with green
February 16, 2010 | Greening Water Infrastructure Read more »
Use Salt Wisely When Thawing Out this Winter
December 16, 2009 | Clean Water, Stormwater & Sewage Read more »
New Green Infrastructure Legislation introduced in Congress
December 10, 2009 | Greening Water Infrastructure, Clean Water Read more »
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