Farming and forestry landowners are looking for additional sources of revenue. In the not too distant future, federal, state, and local governments are going to have far less dollars to operate with. Traditional government conservation program funds are shrinking and some are being eliminated completely.
We exist to help these types of landowners create additional revenue [...]

In just a few weeks, Deep Green Classifieds has found its way to the #1 position on Google search engine for several environmental asset and ecosystem service categories! Tomorrow we will begin a series of articles designed to help rural landowners make money by advertising their environmental assets and ecosystem services on this site.

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I was in my garden and was reflecting how the depleted soil from past years has been renewed with some half-baked cow manure from my buddy Tim Neale’s Beaver Creek Farm out on Mountain Track Road. My mind wandered to the briefing I gave yesterday to a local group on the idea of creating a [...]

Yesterday I was doing some consulting work on trail development in Richmond, Virginia. I had the pleasure of working for Richmond for a few months and during that time became a huge fan of the City—its architecture, topography, and river. I think that the future may be bright for Richmonders if they broaden their concerns [...]

The monetization of Conserv has finally begun. Please bear with us as we begin to implement programs in the months ahead to bring financial stability to the organization. These include targeted site advertising as well as changes in sponsor and membership functionalities.
And thanks to the Ivey Ranch, California PTO Fundraising Website for use of the [...]

In the last post of this five-part series on Deep Green Classifieds, I will offer a Vision for a new type of conservation to begin. This vision is based on the following cultural changes now taking place here in the U.S. perhaps and to varying degrees in some other industrialized countries worldwide:

the rise of the [...]

This blog is focused on issues related to the creation of economies that will maintain and restore environmental assets and ecosystem services. A prior post focused on the three dimensions of an economy, allocation, distribution, and scale/quality, and the appropriate role of government, particularly in the setting of scale/quality for environmental resource stocks. The thinking [...]

I was talking today with my old colleague Jack Marshall. Dr. Marshall is the driving force behind Advocates for A Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP).  Jack was talking to me about the site and said that from reading the Homepage, he didn’t quite understand what Deep Green is about. I told him to imagine if he [...]

We are still working out bugs in the classifieds so, please, bear with us. For now, here are the steps to post an ad:
1. Click on “Deep Green Classifieds” at the top of the homepage.
2. Click on one of the categories on the right hand side of the page.
3. Click on “Add a new Ad [...]

This week we will feature daily posts on Deep Green Classifieds, Conserv’s newest marketplace. Deep Green was launched last week along with an overall upgrade to Version IV of the site. The following are the themes for each article:

Today - Origins and theory of Deep Green
Tuesday - How to use Deep Green
Wednesday - Deep Green [...]

What do all these images have in common? They show people paying for the sustainable use of environmental assets and ecosystem services! Today we launch Version 4 of Conserv featuring a new service, Deep Green Classifieds. The classifieds are a free service for conservation-minded persons to find each other in search of:

Leasing and sale of [...]

As I struggle to get a market-based grant application out the door by COB on Friday, it seems necessary to review the latest information on the Chesapeake—the television programs, columns, and reports. It’s well, just incredible work. There is though a worldview that I belive is at the least, understated, and at most, missing, from [...]

I have been working with the good folks at Simply Logic Technologies and Category 4 in Charlottesville for months to launch the next version of this site. It’s does seem like it’s literally 2 steps backwards for every 3 forward but we’ll get there. The new site has to start bringing home the bacon. I [...]

My brother and I were talking last night about the state of Wicomico County, Md. He has lived on a farm near the Nanticoke River for about a decade and is concerned about the loss of agriculture around him. Since he bought his place, many houses, both on large lot and small, have sprung up [...]

A few weeks ago, we featured a Success Story about former State Senator Doug Barclay and his trout fishing business on his farm on the Salmon River near Port Ontario, N.Y. That story discussed how one family has forged into market-based conservation.
Over this past weekend, my fishing buddy, Chris Mawdsley (owner of CrisCars in Orange) [...]

When I was still Director of Community Development for the Town of Orange, it was appropriate for me to attend meetings of the Rappahannock River Basin Commission (about 1/2 of the Town is in the Rappahannock River Basin, the other half being in the York River Basin). The last meeting I attended, a year or [...]