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Sustainable Investment Options for Colleges and Universities
By Mary Sketch. Mary Sketch is a junior at Brown University concentrating in Environmental Studies with a focus in Law and Policy. She is a North Carolina native and has worked with the EFC as…
A New Environmental Education Framework: The Need for Financial Literacy
Lexi Herndon is the Marketing and Outreach Coordinator at the Environmental Finance Center at UNC Chapel Hill. Environmental education (EE) is a big fish these days. Programs are flourishing across the country, large and small,…
Multiple Options for Small Drinking Water System Partnerships
Glenn Barnes is senior project director with the Environmental Finance Center based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-director of the Smart Management for Small Water Systems Project. Drinking…
Addressing Barriers to Green Infrastructure Financing
Stacey Isaac Berahzer is a Senior Project Director for the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina, and works from a satellite office in Georgia. The country is experiencing record breaking temperatures today….
Happy New Year from the UNC Environmental Finance Center!
A $napshot is a graphic revealing an interesting environmental finance finding accompanied by a short post. This $napshot was created by David Tucker, Project Director at the EFC. We wish to offer our sincere thanks…
Finding the Path to the Next Rate Increase
Jeff Hughes is a Faculty member at the UNC School of Government and the Director of the UNC Environmental Finance Center. The EFC carries out a lot of research and produces a number of tools that track and…
Tap dancing around impact fees: Residential connection fees for drinking water and wastewater systems in GA and NC
David R. Tucker is a Project Director at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My work at the UNC Environmental Finance Center frequently centers around the study, benchmarking, and understanding…
$napshot: Utility Rate Increases versus Revenue Increases
A $napshot is a graphic revealing an interesting environmental finance finding accompanied by a short post. This $napshot was created by Shadi Eskaf. While revenues usually rise as water and wastewater rates increase, revenues generally…