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Addressing Barriers to Green Infrastructure Financing

January 7, 2014

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. Here in Atlanta for example, … Read more

Financing Urban Forestry

August 9, 2013

Lexi Kay is the Marketing and Outreach Coordinator at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina. Before joining the staff at the Environmental Finance Center at UNC, I spent a lot of my time in graduate school … Read more

The Universe of Stormwater Utilities in Georgia

August 6, 2013

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. Stormwater utilities are an interesting finance tool for addressing nonpoint sources of water … Read more

Tools for Multi-jurisdictional Approaches to Water Quality

July 18, 2013

  By Caroline Simpson Caroline Simpson is a graduate student with the UNC School of Information and Library Science and works as a Research Assistant with the Environmental Finance Center. When the North Carolina Legislature instated  House Bill 448, Regionalization … Read more

Wetland Program Plans as a Sustainable Finance Tool

April 2, 2013

Glenn Barnes is a senior project director at the Environmental Finance Center at The University of North Carolina and is director of the Sustainable Finance for Wetland Programs project. EPA is encouraging all states and tribes to create wetland program … Read more

Generating Carbon Credits from Wetlands

January 22, 2013

Glenn Barnes is a senior project director at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina.  Glenn is the project manager of the Sustainable Finance for Wetland Programs project funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carbon offsets … Read more

Engaging Local Governments in Wetland Programs

December 12, 2012

Glenn Barnes is a senior project director at the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina.  Glenn is the project manager of the Sustainable Finance for Wetland Programs project funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Most government-operated … Read more

New Challenges Lead to New Stormwater Utility Models

November 29, 2012

Jeff Hughes is the Director of the Environmental Finance Center. Remember the good ‘ole days when a billion dollar price tag for addressing a local environmental problem was relatively rare?  Those days appear to be gone and much to the … Read more