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Getting closer than the pebbles in this stream

Detecting Change in Conservation: The Value of Remote Sensing

Sam Feibel
January 18, 2023
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
The value in land increases when you conserve it- but conserved land grows and moves in many ways. Large and small land-stewardship organizations are investing in remote technology for clearer, more investable pictures of what they're conserving. And investors are learning a new language.
Nobody in conservation finance can fly far who flies alone

Photo by Dhrvaraj S, via Flickr Creative Commons. 

Centering People at the Heart of Nature-Based Carbon Projects

Stanley Tan
December 14, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Habitat
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Oceans
Countries and companies are indeed looking to restore forests and other ecosystems to offset carbon output. Nature-based carbon projects protect or restore ecosystems, like a tropical forest in Indonesia, and generate carbon credits based on the emissions avoided or sequestered. Typically, third-party developers put these projects together for implementation by...
A photo of the Lower Brule reservation, courtesy Jerry Huddleston via Flickr Creative Commons.

Take in the view of the Lower Brule reservation, courtesy Jerry Huddleston via Flickr Creative Commons. 

Yale Forest Forum Highlights: Carbon Projects for Indigenous Forest Owners

Katie Michels
November 14, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
Bryan Van Stippen’s talk started with an assertion: Tribal nations must “not let their natural resource assets benefit others before they benefit their own communities.” The National Indian Carbon Coalition (NICC) views carbon projects as both economic development and natural resource stewardship opportunities in response to historic extraction and theft.
The Connecticut Green Bank sees potential for capital flows from greenspace like this New Haven park.

Connecticut's Green Bank Seeks Leader for Financing Natural Capital

Alec Appelbaum
October 10, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Cities
  • Climate
  • Environmental Justice
  • Forest
  • Fresh Water
  • Habitat
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
States around the nation are changing laws to clarify and speed up financing for natural climate solutions. Now Green Bank CEO Bryan Garcia and his team are looking for a senior team member to crystallize and underwrite the strategy. Garcia says it’d be the first time the green bank has...
The Defense Department helps this Minnesota wolf defend its turf.

The Defense Department helps this Minnesota wolf defend its turf.  (Photo by Julie DeJong, Minnesota DNR, via the US Army Flickr feed.)

Unlocking Partnership, Opening Paths: Inside the REPI Program

Christina Kohler
May 19, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
The United States' military apparatus depends on stable land for security at its sites. A partnership with land trusts and other stewards makes conservation hay from that conviction.
Delaware farm

Farm in Georgetown, Delaware / Michele Dorsey Walfred / CC BY-SA 2.0

Enabling Chesapeake Bay’s Landowners to Benefit from Carbon and Ecosystem Services Through Aggregation

Avery Siler
March 24, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Agriculture
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
Organizations across the country, and across land types, are working to implement aggregation projects to help family forest owners, small farmers, and all those who own smaller parcels of land. These projects serve farmer whose priorities may differ internally and in comparison to commercial operations.
Recovery across the world came before a panel of experts at Yale in January.

The International Society for Tropical Forestry’s 2022 conference at Yale emphasized scale and the importance of COVID-19 recovery efforts for the “Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.”

Financing Tropical Forests: Lessons For Scaling From Yale's Annual Conference

Nadeem Demian
February 16, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Climate
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
In looking at forest restoration finance in a tropical context, three experts at a Yale-sponsored panel spoke of clearer images from space and more inclusive planning on the ground.
BIg Spring Run development site, with wetlands

(Photo by Sam Feibel/Franklin & Marshall College.) This restored wetland brings life back to a Pennsylvania site that once posed a threat to the Chesapeake Bay. 

Removing Sediment to Restore Wetlands Clears Revenue Paths

Sam Feibel
January 24, 2022
  • Topics:
  • Fresh Water
  • Habitat
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
By removing "legacy sediment" from dam diversions, scientists can expand wetlands and their conservation oomph. In Pennsylvania, a commercial real estate firm learned how this wetland protection can create more developable land - and more profit.
Everyone learns in meetings - but what can we learn about how to run meetings?

With the International Land Conservation Network, CFN offers a handbook for handling gatherings to boost impact. 

How to Bring People Together to Unlock Scaled Conservation Impact

Helen Rogers, Leigh Whelpton
November 23, 2021
  • Topics:
  • Blended Finance
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Philanthropy
  • Public Policy
Intractable social and environmental problems require collective action. These challenges demand that we step beyond individual mission statements and business models to craft strategies, chart paths forward, and unlock scaled impact—together. A new guide draws on lessons from convenings around the world to make gatherings more enjoyable and effective.
The Land Trust Alliance's 2021 Rally raised defining questions from start to restart.

What makes a land trust earn its trust? 

Digging In: Our Recharge From Rally

Sawyer Cresap, Katie Michels, Jackson Moller, Helen Rogers, Angela Xue
October 21, 2021
  • Topics:
  • Environmental Justice
  • Impact Investing
  • Land Conservation
  • Public Policy
Every year, the Land Trust Alliance Rally unites practitioners across the conservation finance firmament. The 2021 rally weighed more in our memories, marking an end to isolation and raising our prospects. Our team members reflect below.

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