Resources
Valuing the Ecosystem Service Benefits from Regenerative Agriculture Practices
The report summarizes the social and environmental impacts of Farmland LP’s investment management practices. Farmland LP buys and converts conventionally farmed land to certified organic farmland using regenerative farm management methods, to generate competitive financial returns and achieve positive environmental and social impacts. The USDA funded this study for the partners to generate a new, […]
Brownfields Marketability Scoring Tool
A structured scoring framework to prioritize brownfield redevelopment by evaluating ownership, site use, land traits, community context, incentives, infrastructure, environmental risk, and building characteristics.
2018 NCA Resources for Midwest Region
This project started in Cleveland in 2023 with the launch of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Trees Initiative. The Trees Initiative aims to plant 250 million trees across the Great Lakes region by 2033. Maximizing the health benefits of trees and planting trees in neighborhoods that need more tree canopy is a major focus of […]
State Policy Opportunity Tracker
SPOT synthesizes existing information related to 37 clean energy policies at the state level and documents whether a given state policy exists and where it stands related to 3 – 6 policy components. This resource is not a state scorecard. It is a planning tool for states as they develop their clean energy policy roadmaps. […]
Organizations
Omaha-Council Bluffs
The Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan region’s planning partnership that produced a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) under EPA’s CPRG program.
Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy
Nebraska’s state agency responsible for environmental protection and energy programs, including statewide climate planning deliverables such as the Priority Climate Action Plan.
Clean Air Task Force
Clean Air Task Force is an international nonprofit organization working to accelerate the development and deployment of low-carbon technologies and science-based climate policy. The organization focuses heavily on carbon capture, methane reduction, clean fuels, and decarbonizing heavy industry.
City of Lincoln, Nebraska
Municipal government leading climate mitigation and transportation electrification planning.
Environmental Protection Network
The Environmental Protection Network harnesses the expertise of over 650 former EPA career staff and political appointees from across the country to serve as a trusted resource, answering calls for objective analysis, scientific rigor, and a vision for a transformed 21st century EPA.