Two critical elements of the Phase I Rappahannock River Friendly Demonstration Program have been completed in draft form - River Friendly Yard Incentives and River Friendly Yard Economic Development for the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.
A few of the highlights of these reports include:

A proposed cost offsets and rebate program could achieve a 24% savings on the [...]

Conserv welcomes several new members of the collaborative -
David Hay - is working on the economic development portion of the River Friendly program.
Steve Keach and Barry Long - will both be working on Phase II of the River Friendly program.
Tatyanna Patten - will be working to further develop the Rappahannock Bioenergy program.
 

The landscape designers and engineers and marketing folks have completed a first draft of their work. Designs will be reviewed - environmental lift will be debated - and ways to incentivize conversions will be discussed. A pre-charette team meeting will be held in Charlottesville on Monday - following that meeting, an agenda for the day [...]

The Association of Conservation Real Estate/Conserv Board of Directors has authorized the separation of The Association of Conservation Real Estate from Conserv. This change reflects the organization’s evolution from a conservation real estate trade organization to an environmental/economic development research and development company. The trade organization will be updated and rebranded in 2012/2013, to include new trends in conservation and environmental restoration, while [...]

Conserv, in association with The Center for Sustainable Groundwater, has completed a beta-version of a capital expenditure planning tool for water supply utilities and local governments. The tool, called the Optimal Infrastructure Expenditure (OIE) Capital Planner,allows the user to optimize expenditures for green infrastructure (afforestation and forest conservation easements) and for grey infrastructure (dredging).
The OIE Project is [...]

While the debate in the Virginia General Assembly intensifies about transportation funding - how billions of dollars can possibly be funded for new construction and maintenance - there remains another debate - how billions can also be funded for Chesapeake Bay restoration. The use of the toll mechanism may be a fair means to help pay [...]