Indiana
List of Sustainability-Focused Extension Programs
Program: Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces
Institution: Purdue University
Category: Land
Range: Indiana statewide
Description: Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces addresses public spaces and their role in enhancing the quality of place by helping regions, communities, and neighborhoods plan and prepare for a sustainable future. The program provides a framework for collecting data on community assets and using that data to design a high-quality plan that can guide impactful improvements on public spaces.
Program Offerings: Face-to-face trainings, Website, Information
Program: Tipping Points and Indicators
Institution: Purdue University
Category: Land
Range: Regional
Description: Tipping Points and Indicators helps local decision makers, including watershed management groups and planning entities, identify impacts of land-based activities that threaten the sustainability of ecosystems in their watershed. The program includes a web-based decision support system and facilitated community forum to explore policy and management interventions necessary to keep coastal ecosystems from reaching critical tipping points and moving to unstable conditions.
Program Offerings: Face-to-face trainings, Website, Information
Program: Purdue Rainscaping Education Program
Institution: Purdue University
Category: Land, Water
Range: Indiana statewide
Description: The Purdue Rainscaping Education Program provides rain garden training on planning, installation, and maintenance for Purdue Master Gardeners, conservation agencies and organizations, stormwater professionals, and landscape companies and consultants. Participants are encouraged to attend as a community team to support the implementation of public education programs and provide technical assistance to homeowners upon completion of the training.
Program Offerings: Face-to-face trainings, Website, Information, Certification
