Green Resilience: Implementing restoration and green infrastructure in the Greater Saint John Area

Over the 2021 field season, ACAP Saint John worked with the community to incorporate four unique green infrastructure (GI) solutions into the urban environment of Saint John. Throughout the tenure of this project, ACAP Saint John and community volunteers installed a 200m2 rain garden containing over 400 plants, removed 100m2 of asphalt from a community park, naturalized a stormwater retention pond, and planted almost 1,300 trees. This project will help to reduce the impacts of increased rainfall, extreme weather and sea level rise predicted to impact the City of Saint John due to climate change. Through this work, ACAP has had the opportunity to demonstrate that GI is an effective method for climate change adaptation and has generated more discussions with community members, City councillors and institutions to move this work forward in Saint John.