Archive for August, 2009
Date: August 31st, 2009 | Category: Commentary | Comments (0) | Tags Biomimicry, Bioregional, Bioregional markets, Bioregionalism, carbon footprint, Ecological footprinting, Ecosystem Services, Green economy, Holistic health care, Rappahannock Exchange, Sustainable economic development, Sustainable macroeconomic theory, Time dollars, Whole system design and facilitation
In the weeks ahead, as we plan for the launch of the Rappahannock Exchange, we will offer up occasional briefings on the pillars of future bioregional markets to enhance ecosystem health of keystone environmental assets. These include:
Creation-care ministries of faith and ethics communities
Biomimicry
Ecosystem health goal setting
Ecological footprinting
Holistic health care
Bioregionalism
Currency diversity
Ecosystem services
Sustainable macroeconomic theory
Whole system design [...]
Date: August 29th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | Comments (0) | Tags Fishing in the piedmont for smallmouth bass, Piedmont stream water quality, Piedmont Virginia fishing, Rappahannock Exchange, Rappahannock River Basin, Robinson River, Virginia
With the pending launch of the Rappahannock River Exchange this coming December, I tell myself that it is essential to pull myself away from the office to viscerally experience the waters of the basin through the drudgery of fishing the lower Robinson. Hey, it’s a tough job but somebody’s got to do it.
I’m crazy for [...]
Date: August 27th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (1) | Tags Deer hunter's insurance, Hunter's insurance, Hunting Club insurance, Hunting lease insurance, hunting property, Quality Deer Management Association
We have had some calls recently about the best liability insurance for hunting leases. Troy Langan at Farmer’s National recommends Quality Deer Management Association as one of the most reputable groups.
Some information from their website:
QDMA Hunting Club Insurance
Click here to view an application [...]
Date: August 21st, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags Albemarle County watershed management, Charlottesville, Charlottesville environment, Charlottesville watershed management, Ecosystem Services, Payment for ecosystem services, Rivanna River, Rivanna River basin, Rivanna River nutrient, Rivanna River resilience, Rivanna River sediment, Rivanna River watershed
Conserv, working with The Virginia Department of Forestry, will submit a proposal to pilot a payment for ecosystem services program in the Rivanna River watershed near Charlottesville, Virginia. The intent of the grant is to reduce sediment and nutrients through a market-based conservation platform. More details forthcoming.
Thanks to Black and White, Photography from the Chesapeake [...]
Date: August 17th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags Bioregional markets, Conservation real estate, Ecosystem services community supported agriculture, Market-based conservation, Payment for ecosystem services, Rappahannock Ecosystem Services Council, Rappahannock Exchange, Rappahannock Exchange Symposium, Rappahannock River Basin Commission, Virginia 21st century economy, Virginia alternative energy, Virginia carbon footprinting, Virginia eco-labels, Virginia ecolabeling, Virginia economic development, Virginia green design, Virginia green products, Virginia hunting and fishing leases, Virginia sustainable forestry, Virginia time dollars, Virginia woody biomass
Today, the Rappahannock Exchange Symposium/Ecosystem Services Council Kick-off Steering Committee set Wednesday, December 9 for the day-long meeting. The agenda for this historic gathering, to be held at a soon-to-be announced location in Fredericksburg, may include:
Goals of a 21st-century marketplace
Mini-briefings on emering Chesapeake Bay and greenhouse gas reduction - friendly market demand opportunities including:
Carbon footprinting [...]
Date: August 13th, 2009 | Category: Commentary, Uncategorized | Comments (0) | Tags Business eco-metrics, George Meyer, Green government, Green manufacturing, Greening of government, Joe Starinchak, Lean manufacturing, Robert "Doc" Hall, Sustainable business practice, Sustainable government administrative structure, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Joe Starinchak, Outreach Coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently sent to me a copy of a decade old paper authored by George Meyer, the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Titled A Green Tier for Greater Environmental Protection, the work was focused on a new conceptual paradigm for government environmental [...]
Date: August 12th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags alternative septic real estate broker, American Conservation Broker, Broker training on alternative septic system maintenanc, Broker training on easements and conservation stewardsh, Broker training on rainwater harvesting, Broker training on stormwater, Conserv, rainwater real estate broker, real estate broker conservation training, stormwater real estate broker
Conserv will soon begin work on an overhaul of the 2009 American Conservation Broker curriculum for 2010. American Conservation Broker: 2010, will feature the following new modules designed to prepare brokers and sales agents for the latest emerging environmental challenges, including:
- Alternative septic system design and maintenance awareness training, including companies to call to assist [...]
Date: August 11th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags Conserv, Forestry estate planning, Inherited lands for forestry, Virginia forest landowners, Virginia private forestlands estate planning, Virginia sustainable forestry
A story on WVTF public radio today about the plight of Virginia’s private forestlands…
Threat’s to Virginia’s Private Forestlands
These new landowners need to find ways to generate revenue, sustainably, from their inherited family forest lands.
A meeting will be held tomorrow at the Virginia Department of Forestry in
Charlottesville for estate planning for forest landowners….
Estate Planning Workshop
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Date: August 7th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | Comments (3) | Tags bioregional currency, ecological economy currency, green currency, local currency, The New Economy
As energies for the consideration of ecosystem markets gather here in the mid-atlantic, the search for demand drivers for some types of these services intensifies. While there has been significant resources devoted to the creation of supply side models and metrics (which are essential), without robust demand, market-based conservation is a daydream. Although the following [...]
Date: August 5th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (1) | Tags Albemarle County hydrogeology, carbon footprint, Charlottesville groundwater ecosystem services, ecological footprint, Ecosystem Services, groundwater ecosystem services, groundwater sustainability, optimal sustainable population size, piedmont groundwater ecosystem services, sustainable groundwater, sustainable management of groundwater, U.S. groundwater ecosystem services, Virginia Groundwater ecosystem services
Conserv is working with Virginia Groundwater, LLC to prepare a report titled Underground Albemarle revised: How do groundwater ecosystem services impact optimal sustainable population size for the Charlottesville/Albemarle community? for the organization Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population. Virginia Groundwater is preparing the hydrogeology portion of the study with Conserv focused on groundwater ecosystem services [...]
Date: August 4th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags American Conservation Broker, California American Conservation Broker, California conservation and real estate, California conservation real estate sales
Teri L. Gordon, with PJ deHaas Properties in Lake Hughes, California recently completed the American Conservation Broker curriculum, and is the first real estate professional to receive the certification in the State of California.
More to come on Teri and her future plans for integrating conservation with her day to day real estate practice.
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