Tag: ecosystem services
Bottoms up! Adapting community development finance for local water infrastructure
February 26, 2013
“I’m … proposing a Partnership to Rebuild America that attracts private capital to upgrade what our businesses need most: modern ports to move our goods; modern pipelines to withstand a storm; modern schools worthy of our children.” – POTUS in 2013 State of the Union Prompted by the flooding brough … Read more
The Economic Benefits of Protecting Healthy Watersheds
June 26, 2012
In 1971 in South Korea, a public official presented a draft enforcement decree for the Pollution Prevention Law to the country’s cabinet. The minister of the Economic Planning Board, also vice prime minister at the time, was not impressed, first calling the official an “idiot” and then further bera … Read more