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Spring 2010 Environmental Finance Courses Offered by the University of Maryland School Of Public Policy
The Graduate School of Public policy supported by the Environmental Finance Center and the National Center for Smart Growth, is offering two graduate level Environmental Finance Courses as a part of the University of Maryland’s Spring 2010 semester. "Public Policy and The Environment" will be offered Wednesdays from 5:30 pm to 8 pm at EPA’s Aerial Rios Building in downtown Washington, DC. "Environmental Law and Finance" will be offered Tuesdays from 5:30 pm to 8 pm at EPA’s Aerial Rios Building in downtown Washington, DC.
Financing Renewable Energy in the Mid-AtlanticSeptember 22, 2009, 9am - 4:30pm, Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Financing Your Stormwater Program: Applied Finance and Management TrainingBROCHURE (PDF 77KB) On March 12 & 13th, 2009, a stormwater program planning and finance workshop was offered at WVDEP headquarters in Charleston, WV. This course was taught by experts from the Environmental Finance Center at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and was modeled after similar courses offered in the southeast. It was designed to provide local government managers, finance directors, planners, municipal utility and public works officials with practical in-depth stormwater planning, management and funding information and assistance. The training covered small MS4 stormwater requirements, BMP programs to meet those requirements and their associated costs, and funding mechanisms to cover these costs. The training focused on actual case examples from within and outside West Virginia.
EFC hosts Community Visioning events in the Occoquan DistrictOn Saturday, January 31, EFC hosted the second of two events intended to stimulate innovative thinking by residents of the Occoquan District of Prince William County, VA, about how they would like to see their community develop over the coming years. Links:
EFC hosts successful South River Greenway events!On January 22, the EFC hosted South River Greenway: Land, Water, People in coordination with Biophilia Foundation, the Scenic Rivers Land Trust, and the South River Federation. This kick-off event for the South River Greenway project brought stakeholders together to inform them of the impending threats to the watershed, the steps currently underway to address these challenges, and the opportunities available to be a part of the solution. Councilmember Jamie Benoit welcomed participants to the daytime session at Anne Arundel Community College, which was attended by approximately 70 people and featured guest speaker Frank Marzucco, Director of Anne Arundel County Recreation and Parks. Afternoon breakout sessions were geared toward resource protection specialists, real estate and tax planning professionals, funding organizations, and those interested in public use and participation opportunities.
EFC joins the Watershed Assistance CollaborativeThe EFC is working in partnership with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Chesapeake Bay Trust, and Maryland Sea Grant to provide communities better access to the technical assistance they need to achieve their watershed protection goals. The EFC recently completed its first Collaborative project, working with stakeholders in the Middle Chester watershed in Kent County, Maryland, to develop and sustainably implement a suite of nonpoint source nutrient reduction plans that include agricultural, septic, and restoration projects. The final report is available on our Publications website. For more information, please contact Jennifer Cotting at jcotting@umd.edu. The EFC has begun work on our second Collaborative project in the Sassafras watershed where we will be assisting the Sassafras River Association with prioritizing and identifying sustainable implementation strategies for selected watershed protection and restoration efforts in the watershed. For more information, contact Megan Hughes at mhughes3@umd.edu. For more on the WAC, visit www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/czm/2010tfs.html.
EFC to launch Delaware Foodtrader and Agtrader websitesEFC launches the Delaware Farm Market and Agriculture Exchange websites sponsored by the Delaware Department of Agriculture, the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension, and Delaware Technical College.
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