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How States Are Streamlining Permitting for Ecological Restoration Projects

April 8, 2021 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

By Bailey Troth, Conservation Markets Intern Wetland habitats are critical for biodiversity conservation. They feature a high concentration of plant…

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Posted in: Markets, Restoration

Can This Year’s New Regulatory Sandboxes Inspire Innovation in Conservation?

April 5, 2021 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

Since we last wrote about using the regulatory sandbox tool to improve how we manage conservation in America, some new…

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Posted in: Markets, Restoration Filed under: #innovation, #sandbox

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Embraces Old and New Solutions for Clean Water

April 2, 2021 Maureen Cunningham Leave a comment

By Maureen Cunningham, Katy Hansen, Phoebe Higgins and Sri Vedachalam Politicians, as they say, campaign in poetry and govern in…

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Posted in: Climate, Markets, Restoration, Water Filed under: Biden, lead, PFAS, SRF

Improving the Sustainability of Abandoned Coal Mine Reclamation Efforts

March 26, 2021 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

By Roxana Lagunas As an EPIC intern through the University of California Washington Program (UCDC), I wrote a paper exploring…

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Posted in: Markets, Restoration

New toolkit for funding green stormwater infrastructure in the Great Lakes region

December 1, 2020 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

If you look at your water bill, you will may see a stormwater charge or drainage fee that helps pay…

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Posted in: Markets, Water Filed under: Environmental Impact Bond, Finance, Pay for Success, Public private partnerships, Stormwater

New report: How to help conservation data technology spread

April 23, 2020 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

Before I’d ever heard of “data technology,” I was making loans to commercial fishermen in California where the fishing industry…

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Posted in: Markets, Uncategorized, Water, Wildfire, Wildlife Filed under: #datatech

What Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion pledge makes us think about

February 27, 2020 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

On February 17, 2020, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced he would spend $10 billion to address the climate crisis. Plenty…

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Posted in: Markets, Uncategorized Filed under: #payforperformance, #usda

Conservation Technology: Opportunities for Growth in 2020

January 2, 2020 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

I’m not a tech junkie, but in 2019 my eyes were opened to the incredibly diverse, impressive and rapidly-advancing ways…

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Posted in: Markets, Water, Wildlife Filed under: #datatech, Conservation

Sandboxing Nature: Bringing regulatory flexibility to conservation innovation

October 8, 2019 Phoebe Higgins Leave a comment

Today we’re releasing a new paper, Sandboxing Nature, in which we suggest taking an approach called a “regulatory sandbox”—a flexible…

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Posted in: Markets, Water, Wildlife Filed under: Conservation, Restoration, sandbox

How Much Do We Pay for Conservation Practices on Farms?

June 10, 2019 timothymale Leave a comment

The conservation practices implemented on farms across the country provide ecological benefits, including improved soil health, water quality, and biodiversity…

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