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July 2023Land Lines Magazine
Trees are often touted as tools in the climate fight, for their ability to absorb and store carbon. But researchers have begun to document the role of other natural carbon sinks, from coastal salt marshes to microscopic fungi to elephants and other animal species.
Produced annually, the comprehensive 50-state report provides the most meaningful data available to compare property taxes among cities by calculating the effective tax rate: the tax bill as a percentage of a property’s market value.
To advance “green” policymaking and implementation, local governments must build the capacity to integrate three concurrent policy areas: climate resilience, environmental justice, and green economic development.
The Consortium for Scenario Planning has selected four projects from a recent RFP, each of which will use exploratory scenario planning to address housing affordability challenges in communities from Amherst, Massachusetts, to San Diego.
Deep-pocketed corporate investors have long held the upper hand over vulnerable homeowners and the groups trying to protect them, but the Lincoln Institute’s Center for Geospatial Solutions is using data mapping technology to help change that.
As we confront intertwined crises related to equity, affordability, and climate, some conservation land trusts and community land trusts are investigating what they could accomplish by working together.
Clean energy is poised to play a central role in climate mitigation and transform the way we get our power. But standoffs and bottlenecks related to land use and the electric grid are bogging things down on the ground.
