Ricardo Bayon wrote an article for the Ecosystem Marketplace this week making the completely sane point that we should rebuild ‘green’ infrastructure while we rebuild ‘grey’ infrastructure (the built environment). Totally sensible, completely defensible. I would also ask the next question. How do we develop a plan? Americans certainly have a huge list of built [...]
Archive for the ‘Ecosystem Service Tools’ Category
Rebuilding Infrastructure
Posted in Ecosystem Service Information, Ecosystem Service Tools, U.S. Economy on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Measuring Up: Synchronizing Biodiversity Measurement Systems for Markets and Other Incentive Programs
Posted in Community-based Markets, Ecosystem Service Tools on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Report by the Willamette Partnership I’ve not yet read this…more comments at a later date.
Sustainable Livelihood
Posted in Carbon Markets, Community-based Markets, Ecosystem Service Tools on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many times over the past few years I’ve referred to our land use and environmental work in terms of their improvements to health and livelihood of communities. We have never methodically developed indicators or measures of “healthy, sustainable livelihood”…but think it is critically important. Attached is a white paper that begins to take the issues [...]
A User-friendly EPA
Posted in Ecosystem Service Tools on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The US Environmental Protection Agency has restructured their website. It’s oriented toward user groups…has redeveloped data sources toward practical uses…and thought innovatively about how to recast databases so that they might give meaningful environmental, political and economic insight (check out the zip code organized information on electricity generation, watershed conditions, etc.) www.epa.gov
USDA CEAP
Posted in Ecosystem Service Information, Ecosystem Service Tools on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In 2003 the USDA began the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) to quantify the environmental benefits from conservation practices on private lands. Andy Manale, a Senior Analyst at USEPA, has been working on the team and has spoken well of CEAPs work. They have been working on a number of pilots that carefully quantify environmental [...]
Getting the Water Right
Posted in Climate Change, Ecosystem Service Information, Ecosystem Service Tools on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Getting the Water Right Andy Manale (EPA) and I met after the Katoomba Meetings. During our discussion, we spoke about a number of the critical water supply and water quality issues confronting us….in the very near term. Attached is the announcement of a meeting taking place in Tucson late in July organized by the Soil and Water Conservation Society. [...]
2008 Global Katoomba Meeting
Posted in Carbon Markets, Climate Change, Ecosystem Service Tools on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just returned this morning from the 2008 Global Katoomba Meeting themed “Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet”….felt a bit like Pat Coady who said to me after the meeting “I have enough trouble trying to save 10 acres in our local land trust and now they want us to save the planet”. It [...]
Virginia Forestry and Ecosystem Service Initiatives
Posted in Ecosystem Service Tools, tagged Add new tag on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
virginia-forestry-presentation An interesting presentation on forestry ecosystem services and a related tools development initiative.
