All Posts Tagged With: "land perservation"

“The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is the only independent organization dedicated solely to restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers”, its primary goal to improve water quality by reducing pollution. The foundation “fights for strong and effective laws and regulations while working cooperatively with government, business, and citizens in partnership to protect and restore the bay.”

Baltimore Landmark Homes is an integrated development and homebuilding firm “committed to building high quality homes that protect the environment, honor local history, and respect the surrounding community.” A leader in the field of high efficiency, environmentally friendly development, the firm’s designs incorporate urban amenities with an environmentally conscious lifestyle.

The Parks and People Foundation works to improve the quality of life in Baltimore’s neighborhoods by enhancing the health and beauty of its communities and parks. Through community networks, greening activities, and enriching youth programs, the foundation helps to improve the physical, social, and environmental quality of neighborhoods.

Clean Water Action is a national organization that works to assure supplies of clean, safe, and affordable water, prevent health-threatening pollution, build an economy of environmentally safe jobs and businesses, and empower people to take charge of our environmental future. It organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and campaigns to solve environmental and community problems, and to elect progressive and pro-environment candidates at an entry level.

Permaforest Trust is a not-for-profit organization specializing in sustainability education, networking and creating open source resources for ecological, cultural and personal transition to a lower carbon future. Providing you with skills and strategies for peak oil, climate change and other challenges associated with limits to growth, Permaforest Trust, in partnership with National Environment Center Campus of Riverina Institute of TAFE, offers Certificate IV and Diploma level Accredited Permaculture Training (TM) with a focus on training post-carbon professionals. Our approach combines traditional training in hands-on permaculture skills and design techniques with the latest in community development and project management. We focus on post carbon strategies such as Energy Descent Action Planning, relocalisation and bioregional planning, community sustainability initiatives, food security and community gardens.

Study amongst the spectacular surrounds of the Byron Bay and hinterland bioregion in lush, subtropical Northern NSW, Australia. For more information about the work of the Permaforest Trust, and for free multimedia talks and presentations from the Trust’s Accredited Permaculture please visit our website.