Green Shores for Homes (GSH) in Atlantic Canada
Coastal Action team is helping to pilot GSH in Nova Scotia
The Climate Change team at Coastal Action connected with the Stewardship Centre for BC at the Coastal Zone Canada conference in 2018 over similar interests and initiatives in coastal adaptation in Atlantic Canada. Since then, Coastal Action has received Green Shores training and has had a living shoreline installation project featured as a case study in the new Green Shores for Shoreline Development guide for Atlantic Canada.
More recently, their team has visited coastal properties across Southwest Nova Scotia to help pilot the newly-adapted Green Shores for Homes accreditation system. Their work has involved testing and reviewing credits related to setback/impact avoidance, nature-based solutions, species at risk habitat and migratory birds, riparian and emergent vegetation, invasive species, organic material, and overwater structures. This fieldwork and a written report developed by Coastal Action will help contribute valuable insight into how to best adapt the GSH guide for Atlantic Canadian provinces like Nova Scotia.
Click below to watch a video of the Coastal Action team collecting measurements and testing out a newly-adapted Green Shores for Homes credits system in Nova Scotia. The video was taken by Coastal Action in Heckman’s Island in 2021.
