Tag archive for ‘Conserv’
Date: August 18th, 2010 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags Association of Conservation Real Estate, Conserv, Georgia Conservation Real Estate, Georgia Ecosystem Services, Georgia market-based conservation, Pam Sunderland
The State of Georgia has approved the formation of the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Conservation Real Estate. Pam Sunderland, Director of the State Chapter as well as the new National Association of Conservation Real Estate, will immediately begin to recruit a state Board of Directors, develop a web site, and create an American [...]
Date: July 24th, 2010 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags American Conservation Broker, Association for Conservation Real Estate, Conserv, Conserv Georgia, Conservation real estate, Pam Sunderland
Georgia resident and former Maryland farm girl Pamela Sunderland has agreed to become Conserv’s first Director of Real Estate. Pam has a strong business background - as a retail owner and environmental consultant, and will be using her talents to move the following Initiatives forward:
A repackaging and refinement of the program to create a Georgia [...]
Date: September 16th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags Bioregional markets to restore ecosystem health, Conserv, Market-based conservation, Rappahannock Exchange, Rappahannock River Basin Commission, Virginia Ecosystem Services
Tomorrow, Conserv will post the briefing presented today to the Rappahannock River Basin Commission on the kickoff symposium for the Rappahannock Exchange on December 9 in Fredericksburg.
Date: September 14th, 2009 | Category: Commentary | Comments (11) | Tags Bioregional economy, Bioregional markets, Conserv, Craig Newmark, Craigslist, craigslist wired, David Smick, Ecosystem health, Ecosystem Services, Entrepreneur, Free Trade, global trade, Hot Flat and Crowded, International Economy Sustainability, Newsweek Robert Samuelson, Obama's first 100 days, Post-industrial economy, Rappahannock Exchange, Space Needle, sustainable economy, Sustainable Entrepreneur, Sustainable Seattle, The International Economy, The Tragedy of Craigslist, The World is Curved, Tom Friedman, wired craigslist
A plane ride to the great northwest state of Washington can be a good thing….
The O’Hare bookstore was filled with goodies, and one in particular caught my eye—The World is Curved, by David M. Smick. Picking it up, then putting it down, thinking it was a flip retort to Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Tom [...]
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: July 14th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags Bioregional marketplace, Carbohydrate economy, Carbon abatement economy, Carbon reduction economy, CO2 reduction economy, Conserv, Conservation marketplace, Green marketplace, Greenhouse gas and Chesapeake Bay, The Rappahannock Exchange, Watershed economy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has recently released some reports helpful to creation of bioregional sustainable economies such as The Rappahannock Exchange. These include the following:
The WBCSD’s Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), representing the collective effort of 18 leading cement companies from around the world, today released the report “Cement Industry Energy [...]
Date: July 12th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (2) | Tags Agriculture and the Old Testament, American Conservation Brokers, Bluegrass music, Christianity and agriculture, Christianity and the environment, climate change, Climate Change and Faith, CO2, Community supported agriculture, Community-based conservation, Conserv, Conservation economy, Ecosystem Services, Environmentalism and the Presbyterian Church, Faith and environment, Food security, Food sustainability, Green design, Hunger, Industrial economy, Interfaith sustainability, Landcare, locavore, Montreat Conference Center, Presbyterian Church Eco-Justice Conference, Presbyterian Church ecology, Sustainable agriculture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable economic development, sustainable economy, Sustainable forestry, The New Economy, Watershed planning
The Presbyterian Church 2009 PRC National Eco-justice Conference was held at Montreat Conference Center in Montreat, North Carolina, this past week. The conference organizers were clearly focusing on sustainability through attention to links between topics such as global warming, human health, and food. Particularly significant from a conservation marketplace perspective were discussions that touched on [...]
Date: June 25th, 2009 | Category: Commentary, News Updates | Comments (4) | Tags American Conservation Brokers, birdwatching, cap and trade, carbon sequestration, Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay Economy, Conserv, conservation, Conservation and private property rights, conservation property, Conservation real estate, ecological economy, Ecosystem Services, Environmental assets, Environmental markets, forestry and water quality, green building, hunting and fishing leases, non-point source nutrient trading, nutrient trading, Rappahannock Exchange, Rappahannock River, Rappahannock River Basin Commission, sustainability, sustainable economy
Yesterday, environmental history was made at the Old Beale Memorial Church in Tappahannock, the oldest documented courthouse in Virginia. Surrounded by Flemish bond brickwork with salt-glazed headers and compass-headed windows, the Rappahannock River Basin Commission took the first step toward moving Virginia into the ranks of the leaders of the worldwide ecosystem services movement.
In a [...]
Date: June 18th, 2009 | Category: Commentary, News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags Biodiversity markets, built infrastructure, Carbon markets, Conserv, Ecosystem Services, enviroment=economy, environmental policy, green infrastructure, MetroMonitor, metropolitan policy, natural infrastructure, nutrient markets, nutrient trading, regional economy, Sally Collins, sustainability, sustainability challenge contract, urban economy, urban policy, USDA Office of Ecosystem Service and Markets, Water markets, Wildlife Habitat Council
My colleague Buck Kline, at the Virginia Department of Forestry, attended the Wildlife Habitat Council 1st Ecosystem Services conference last week in Maryland. He just forwarded me his speaker’s notes for Sally Collins’s presentation. Sally Collins, as folks may know, is the new Director of the USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets.
Ms. Collins’s comments [...]
Date: June 4th, 2009 | Category: News Updates | Comments (0) | Tags Chesapeake Bay Economy, Conserv, Conservation real estate, Ecosystem Services, Environmental assets, Marketplace for conservation, Rappahannock River Basin Commission, Sustainable Design
Conserv and the Rappahannock River Basin Commission, working with other agencies and organizations, will soon make an announcement about a major event to be held later this year.