Regional Organizations Balance Environment and Economy
Regional development organizations are using creative mechanisms to walk the tightrope with respect to balancing the environment and the economy.
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Rural Land Being Cleaned Up and Revitalized
Obstacles still remain to the cleanup and redevelopment of brownfields in rural areas, but many rural areas are overcoming them, according to a new report recently released by the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation.
Local Governments Join Forces to Recycle
The Land of Sky Regional Council of Governments in Asheville, North Carolina
has been working on a number of projects that address solid waste.
Smart Design Combats Unnecessary Envirnmental Costs
The Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board in Painted
Post, New York has been promoting smart design concepts through workshops at conferences and a Rural Design Clinic in which large landowners work with a landscape architecture class to develop showcase concept designs.
Answering Energy Shortages with Alternative Sources
In the midst of the current energy crisis, Minnesota's Southwest Regional Development Commission has been instrumental in planning for the development of renewable energy industries, including wind and biomass.
Managing Healthy Watersheds
In an effort to eliminate unsafe levels of pollutants in our nation's water supply, regional development organizations are working with state water authorities to develop implementation pans for total maximum daily loads.
Firewise Rural Communities
Regional development organizations are implementing firewise programs to respond to wildfires, reduce the impacts of wildfires on rural communities and ensure safe fire management for the future.
Preserving Rural Farmland
The Farmland Protection Program is a voluntary US Department of Agriculture program, administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, that helps protects working agricultural land from conversion to non-agricultural uses.
Conservation as a Business Venture
Just as more communities' citizens and civic leaders are implementing strategies that call for environmentally sensitive physical development, so too are consumers and business leaders affecting the emergence of conservation-based enterprise development.
Partnership Promotes Business and Forest Health
To reduce devastating forest fires like those that swept the country in 2000, the US Forest Service has funded a pilot program that supports existing revolving loan funds, placing an emphasis on forest products small businesses in the Four Corners region of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
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