A mile-long trail featuring a raised boardwalk now offers the public access to a nature-focused amenity in Ocean Springs thanks to a partnership between Mississippi State’s Gulf Coast Community Design Studio and the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain.
“Rethinking Public Housing” was submitted by David Perkes and Kelsey Johnson.
The schoolyard garden is one of the products of several years of watershed education and outreach around Magnolia Bayou Watershed.
One of 12 recipients of the program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, funds will be used to kick-start three local place-based projects
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The Mississippi State University Gulf Coast Community Design Studio is collaborating with the Gulf Coast Community Foundation for an event that will include presentations by 3 Gulf Coast teams who can receive up to $4,000 each to kick-start their project ideas. Additionally, we’ll be joined by a stellar advisory panel who will be engaging the candidate project teams in meaningful dialogue around their projects:
The Panel of Speakers will include:
As part of an outreach/education project sponsored by Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio has produced the LID Gulf Coast Story Map.
The 12-week training will provide hands-on experience with researchers who are making a difference in their communities.
Elizabeth Englebretson represented the studio and Plastic-Free Gulf Coast.
She is program manager of the Gulf Coast Healthy Communities Collaborative and the Healthy Families, Mothers and Babies Initiative.
The Krewe is a partnership of the Mississippi Coastal Cleanup and the GCCDS's Plastic-Free Gulf Coast, a grassroots movement led by Elizabeth Englebretson.