CTAHR eXchange

Koa Forest Threats

VincentD — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:58:17 GMT

Join CTAHR and NREM faculty JB Friday and Travis Idol as they illustrate the threats to Koa forest at Kokee on Kauai. See the video on YouTube - here:

YouTube Video on the threat of Strawberry Guava

VincentD — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:52:40 GMT

Sam Gon of the Nature Conservancy has prepared a short video about the threat of Strawberry Guava to our native forests. View it on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pAh-At0HdM

New Strawberry Guava Biocontrol Fact Sheet

VincentD — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:53:28 GMT

Resolutions have been introduced into the Hawaii State Legislature requesting a 5 year moratorium on the proposed use of an imported scale insect as a biocontrol agent to slow down the spread of strawberry guava or waiwai. The legislation - HCR249, HR218 and SCR157, SR108 (click on the bills to read the text) have introduced into the 2009 Legislative Session. So far no hearings have been scheduled to date. The Conservation Council of Hawaii has additional information, including a fact sheet on biocontrol of strawberry guava. The Pacific Southwest Research Station of the USDA Forest Service also has information on biocontrol of strawberry guava.

Strawberry Guava Biocontrol Factsheet.

VincentD — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:33:37 GMT

Worldwide airline network and the dispersal of exotic species

VincentD — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:34:23 GMT

Don't make plans for travel in June 2010. In a study to be published in Ecography, Dr. Andrew Tatem of Oxford University has predicted that June 2010 will be a busy month for the movement of invasive alien species. Read the Science Daily report on the study. The published abstract is available from Wiley InterScience and an "early view of the paper, entitled "The worldwide airline network and the dispersal of exotic species: 2007-2010" is available as well. The DOI citation is: doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05588.x

New Maps available from UH Library

VincentD — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:02:16 GMT

In Back in June 2008, I reported that through UH Manoa MAGIS (Maps Aerials Geographic Information System) that quadrangle maps of the state was available. I am pleased to report (actually, through Eileen Herring's Library Stuff blog) that the MAGIS system has been updated and upgraded to include some exciting new stuff (actually historical stuff). Now through the collaborative work of the UH Manoa Hamilton Library, Department of Geography, and the US Geological Survey that historical quadrant maps from 1910 - 1933 are now available.

Change in Indirect Costs Allowances for SCRI

VincentD — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:43:33 GMT

With the passage of the FY 2009 budget, which funded the FY 2009 Specialty Crop Research Initiative, there came with it a change in the cost sharing requirements. So if you are planning to submit a proposal to USDA CSREES to this program by the April 15, 2009 deadline - this information will be useful to you.

Application News and Updates

March 13, 2009

CSREES Modifies Specialty Crop Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program

In accordance with the FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, for the purposes of a grant made under section 412 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998, which established the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI), in-kind support from non-Federal sources in the form of unrecovered indirect costs may be used to meet the matching requirements under 412(e)(3). These indirect costs are those that are not otherwise charged against the grant and must be consistent with the approved indirect cost rate of the organization. This constitutes a change for the program and the SCRI request for applications (RFA) has been modified accordingly. CSREES announced $47.3 million in FY 2009 funds available for the SCRI. The SCRI was established to solve critical industry issues through research and extension activities. Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture. SCRI will give priority to projects that are multistate, multi-institutional or trans-disciplinary, and include explicit mechanisms to communicate results to producers and the public. Applications are due April 15. Please refer to the updated SCRI Matching Fund FAQs and the updated SCRI RFA for more information.

US EPA report: Gauging the effectiveness of riparian buffers

VincentD — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:16:36 GMT

From the EPA Office of Risk Management Research -- A new report: Gauging the Effectiveness of Riparian Buffers has now been released.

From the web site:

Though riparian buffer efficiency varied widely among individual studies, EPA meta-analysis found important trends. While some narrow buffers (up to 25 meters) proved effective, buffers wider than 50 meters more consistently removed significant amounts of nitrogen. Buffers of various vegetation types were equally effective at removing nitrogen, but buffers with grassy vegetation were more effective when wider. Another strong trend in the data showed that subsurface removal of nitrogen was far more efficient than removal at or near the soil surface.

The full report: "Riparian Buffer Width, Vegetative Cover, and Nitrogen Removal Effectiveness: A Review of Current Science and Regulations" can be downloaded. A related report published in 2007 in the journal, Journal of Environmental Quality, entitled "Meta-Analysis of Nitrogen Removal in Riparian Buffers" can also be downloaded. The Journal of Environmental Quality can be accessed electronically through the UH Hamilton Library

Enhancing Ecosystem Servics From Agricultural Lands: Management, Quantification and Decision Support Tools

VincentD — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:34:40 GMT

This is new program, a joint effort between EPA's National Center for Environmental Research and USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. Enhancing Ecosystem Services from Agricultural Lands: Management, Quantification, and Developing Decision Support Tools. Proposals are due May 26, 2009.

NSF Dear Colleague Letter on Environment, Society and the Economy

VincentD — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:36:09 GMT

Looks like there will be new funding opportunities via NSF according to the recent Dear Colleague letter:

February 2009

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Directorate for Geosciences
NSF 09-031

Dear Colleague:

The Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) and the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) seek to increase collaboration between the geosciences and the social and behavioral sciences by augmenting funding for interdisciplinary research related to Environment, Society, and the Economy.

Human systems have contributed to environmental changes, and human systems will need to respond and adapt to both predicted and unexpected environmental changes. A number of unresolved issues remain, including, but not limited to, the following. The role, pace, and impact of predicted regional and local environmental change will need to be factored into human decision processes with careful attention paid to uncertainties. Strategies need to be identified and assessed that are best suited to cover replacement costs for lost services or recover from the effects of natural hazards under specific scenarios. It will be important to compare the impacts of various carbon management efforts, such as “cap and trade.” It might be possible to factor valuation of ecosystem services into economic activities in such a way as to inform decisions about land and water use. There may be ways to include environmental risks or impacts in cost structures. New methods to manage the differential effects of global change on national economies may be developed.

These emerging and challenging problems require integration of concepts, observations, and modeling across diverse fields. GEO and SBE seek to promote research that links the geosciences and the social and behavioral sciences in new and vital ways. They seek to support proposals that generate intellectual excitement in the participating disciplinary communities. Also encouraged are proposals that have broad educational, societal, or infrastructure impacts that capitalize on this interdisciplinary opportunity.

Climate change will have significant impacts on many aspects of earth systems. These include carbon sequestration, water and air purification, fisheries and agricultural production, and species habitat. Some climate-induced changes will occur gradually; other changes will be abrupt. Models show that changes in climate will directly affect coastal regions, many of which have large urban populations. Climate change also is expected to increase the intensity of storms and alter their patterns. Rising sea levels will change deposition and erosion along beaches, affecting coastal communities. Climate change may alter the duration and magnitude of monsoonal rainfalls and river flooding, and communities will have to respond appropriately to these new stresses. Landslide hazards may be affected by changes in wildfire frequency or the intensity of rainfall. Warming temperatures also are expected to increase energy requirements for cooling, and changes in precipitation could affect hydropower production and sustainability of water supplies. These effects and many others not cited here have direct bearing on economic policies and decisions that confront individuals, groups, firms, and governments at local, regional, national, and global levels.

GEO and SBE will consider proposals that describe new research efforts relating to the integrated study of environment, society, and economics. Interdisciplinary teams of researchers are strongly encouraged. Projects are expected to involve researchers in the geosciences and social and behavioral sciences, but they may also include other disciplines.

Prospective topics of interest in the general area of Environment, Society, and the Economy include, but are not limited to, the following:

Decision-making strategies related to ongoing or predicted global, regional, and local environmental changes;
Economic and geosciences evaluation of technology and practices linked to climate change;
Impacts and adaptation of economic systems;
Pathways to successful application of geoscience research findings;
Development and implementation of mitigation strategies within political and economic constraints;
Interplay of environmental change and inequality of income, access to resources, etc.;
Role of incentives in human behavior;
Politics and economics of resource agreements;
Environmental change and its impact on the evolution of human behavior; and
Capacity building.

Relevant proposals must be submitted to an existing SBE or GEO program according to the program’s regular target or deadline dates. This is not a special competition or new program. Investigators are encouraged to indicate that their proposal was submitted in response to this DCL by including ESE in the title of the proposal. Target and deadline dates for applicable programs may be found at http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=geo and
http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=sbe. Participating programs from all other Directorates should be entered into FastLane as secondary NSF partners on the cover page. For full proposals submitted via FastLane, standard
Grant Proposal Guidelines apply. For full proposals submitted via Grants.gov, see NSFGrants.gov Application Guide; A Guide for the Preparation and Submission of NSF Applications via Grants.gov (Note: The NSF Grants.gov Application Guide is available on the Grants.gov website and on the NSF website at:
http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/docs/grantsgovguide.pdf)

Investigators are strongly encouraged to contact an SBE or GEO Program Officer to determine if their proposed ideas respond to this activity’s goals, discuss relevant topics of interest, and gain advice on how best to prepare a proposal for this activity. The review process will follow standard NSF practices agreed upon by all of the programs participating in a proposal’s review.

Information on making a facilities request is available on the NSF GEO website at http://www.nsf.gov/geo/atm/ulafos/laof/ for lower atmospheric facilities and at http://www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/pubs/IPS_Guidelines.pdf for oceanographic resources and at http:/www.nsf.gov/geo/ear/if/facil.jsp for Earth Sciences facilities. Standard practice for facilities requests will be used.

Sincerely,

Timothy Killeen, Assistant Director for Geosciences

David Lightfoot, Assistant Director for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences

Program Officer Contacts:

Robert O’Connor, SBE/SES, roconnor@nsf.gov, 703-292-7263

Susan Weiler, GEO/ATM, cweiler@nsf.gov, 703-292-8523

USDA NAL Water Quality Information Center - Database Update

VincentD — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:08:51 GMT

The USDA National Agricultural Library Water Quality Information Center has just recently updated its prototyp database of freely available online document related to water and agriculture. According to the release, you can now access 1,900 documents through the database. Search and access publications here.

USDA Forest Service Report on Sustainable Forests

VincentD — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:46:31 GMT

Download the 2010 National Report on Sustainable Forests (draft). From the USDA Forest Service web site:

The 2010 National Report on Sustainable Forests is the second in a series of reports addressing conditions and trends in U.S. forests as they relate to the overarching concept of sustainability. The first report was published in 2003. These reports are produced as part of our continuing commitment to the Montreal Process, a group of 12 countries that first came together in 1994 to develop and implement internationally agreed upon criteria and indicators for the conservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests. The 2010 Report involves the collaboration of over 20 scientists and forestry professionals within the Forest Service along with a number of outside collaborators, and it covers a comprehensive range of issues and information sources relevant to the sustainable management of our Nation’s forests.

A draft version of the 2010 Report is available through this website. During the following 120 day comment period, we are seeking public comment from as broad a range of interests and perspectives as possible. There are several ways to submit comments—instructions are provided on the "Comment on the 2010 Sustainability Report" link on the left side of this page. Please note that comments need to be received by April 7 in order to be incorporated into the final version of the report. Both general and technical comments are appreciated.

Recent Postings on US Climate Change Science Web Pages

VincentD — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:41:12 GMT

There are several recent (OK, last month) articles posted on the US Climate Science Program web site, they include the following:

Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2 Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes.
Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 2.3 Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impact
Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.2 Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems
Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.1 Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region
Final Report, Synthesis and Assessmente Product 5.2 Best practice approaches for characterizing, communicating and incorporating scientific uncertainty in decisionmaking.

Nature Conservancy Drops Global Invasive Species Team

VincentD — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:10:51 GMT

From the Invasive Species Weblog:

The Sadlands

The Nature Conservancy has summarily dismantled what had to be one of the best and most prolific resources for invasive species information on the internet, the Global Invasive Species Team. That means no more newsletters, no new website updates, no support for the palmtop computer-based Weed Information Management System, and, most likely, no new Element Stewardship Abstracts. It also means that several people dedicated to making it just a little easier for everyone to deal with invasive species have lost their jobs. Hopefully the Weed Control Methods Handbook, the voluminous Management Library, Rod Randall's massive weed database, and other tools, housed on UC Davis servers, will remain live for the long term. Read the details here.

Weed US - a new invasive weed database (including Hawaii)

VincentD — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:38:39 GMT

Weed US is a new website with a database about invasive plant species.

This website is a collaborative project between the Plant Conservation Alliance's Alien Plant Working Group and the University of Georgia - Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. The project will eventually expand to allow volunteers to provide distribution information on infestations of species in the database.

WeedUS is a database of information about plants that invade natural areas in the U.S. (including Hawaii). It is intended as an informational and educational tool. Non-native invasive plants degrade natural areas by out-competing native plants for resources and space. The changes they bring can affect things like the amount and quality of food and nesting sites available for wildlife, the extent and survival of native plant populations, the quality and functions of wetlands and waterways, and the appearance and enjoyment of natural landscapes. WeedUS is just one step in the effort to combat invasive plants and preserve our native plants, animals, and landscapes. Information in the WeedUS database is compiled from a wide variety of sources including published and unpublished lists, reports, surveys, and personal observations from experts in the field. Sources include the National Park Service, other federal, state and local agencies, Exotic Pest Plant Councils, Invasive Species Councils and related organizations, The Nature Conservancy, and others.

The purpose of this database is informational and educational and it is neither intended nor approved for use as a regulatory tool. Many of the species in the database are economically important horticultural plants but sometimes cause problems when they escape and establish in natural areas.

Join the WeedUS listserv to stay updated on improvements and additions to the site.

If you have questions about WeedUS, please contact the Alien Plant Working Group Chairperson, Jil Swearingen

New USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative RFP released

VincentD — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:31:56 GMT

The new FY 2009 USDA CSREES Specialty Crop RFP has been released. The program is similar to last year - there is still the 100% cost sharing.

General information is here: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/specialtycropresearchinitiative.cfm

Download the RFP here: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pdfs/09_specialty_crop.pdf

To read about the projects that were funded in the last RFP, included Francis Zee's project on Ohelo berry, go here: http://cris.csrees.usda.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=fastlink1.txt&id=anon&pass=&search=gc=scri%20AND%20gy%3E2002&format=WEBTITLESG

Deadline is April 15, 2009. National Program Leader is Tom Bewick, (again) -

Open Source GIS Software

VincentD — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:32:12 GMT

For your information - if you are looking for an open source GIS software program - MapWindow may be the one for you. I don't know much about it but it is free and since it's open source, you can make adjustments according to you needs.

USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets

VincentD — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:07:59 GMT

USDA Announces New Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2008--Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer today announced the intention to establish a new USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets and the creation of a federal government-wide Conservation and Land Management Environmental Services Board to assist the Secretary of Agriculture in the development of new technical guidelines and science-based methods to assess environmental service benefits which will in turn promote markets for ecosystem services including carbon trading to mitigate climate change.

"Our Nation's farms, ranches and forests provide goods and services that are vital to society - natural assets we call "ecosystem services," said Schafer. "The Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets will enable America's agriculture producers to better compete, trade their services around the world, and make significant contributions to help improve the environment."

Agriculture producers provide many ecosystem services which have historically been viewed as free benefits to society - clean water and air, wildlife habitat, carbon storage, and scenic landscapes. Lacking a formal structure to market these services, farmers, ranchers and forest landowners are not generally compensated for providing these critical public benefits. Market-based approaches to conservation are proven to be a cost-effective method to achieve environmental goals and sustain working and natural landscapes. Without financial incentives, these ecosystem services may be lost as privately-owned lands are sold or converted to development.

Secretary Shafer intends to name Sally Collins Director of the Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets (OESM). Organizationally, OESM will be located within the Office of the Secretary providing direct access to the Secretary. Collins will assume this position after serving as Associate Chief of the USDA Forest Service for the past 8 years, where she pioneered concepts for ecosystem services and markets as part of that agency's sustainable land management mission.

OESM will provide administrative and technical assistance to the Secretary in developing the uniform guidelines and tools needed to create and expand markets for these vital ecosystem services and will support the work of the Conservation and Land Management Environmental Services Board. As directed by the authorizing legislation the first ecosystem services to be examined will be carbon sequestration. The Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets and the Conservation and Land Management Environmental Services Board will be established to implement actions authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill.

The Conservation and Land Management Environmental Services Board will be comprised of the Secretaries of Interior, Energy, Commerce, Transportation, and Defense; the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors; the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology ; the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and, the Commander of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Secretary of Agriculture will Chair the Board. The Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Administrator of Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs will serve as vice-chairs.

Nominations will be sought in the near future for a federally chartered public Advisory Committee to advise the Board. The Advisory Committee will include farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners, Tribal representatives, as well as representatives from State natural resource and environmental agencies, agriculture departments, and conservation and environmental organizations.

Pacific Invasive Ants Key

VincentD — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:01:49 GMT

The Pacific Invasive Ant Key is an illustrated identification guide for invasive ant species commonly encountered in the Pacific Island region. The program is sponsored by USDA APHIS PPQ Center for Plant Health Science and Technology and the University of California at Davis.

USDA releases Grant and Partnership Programs that Address Invasive Species

VincentD — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:57:45 GMT

The USDA and the National Agriculture Library have released their 2009 report "U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grant and Partnership Programs that Can Address Invasive Species Research, Technical Assistance, Prevention and Control." This workbook contains basic information on programs in USDA that could be used to fund invasive species related projects. This list is a helpful place to start a search for resources for invasive species activities.

USGS Briefing on Climate Change and Invasives; Pacific Economic Cooperation Council on Climate Change and Food Systems

VincentD — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:13:21 GMT

U.S. Geological Survey posts completed information from Congressional Briefing on the topic: Climate Change: The Challenge of Invasive Species. The briefing was held in September 2008 but the web site contains PPTs and other resources given out at the briefing.

The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council as part of its Pacific Food System Outlook has provided it's most recent report entitled: Pacific Food System Outlook 2008-2009 Climate Change and the Food System. This report is the fourth assessment report of the International Panel on Climate Change. Presentations made to the PECC Standing Committee in July 2008, included: Food Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Responses by Dr. Srinivas Madhur of the Asian Development Bank; Public Goods and Private Markets: Issues in Food Market Developments, by Don Gunasekera of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resoruce Economics; What role is there for regional cooperation at this current food crisis? by Yuhtasak Supasorn, National Food Institute, Thailand; and Overview of soaring food prices and country policy responses by Nancy Morgan, UN FAO.

The Pacific Economic Cooperation Council has earlier assessment reports available for download (all .pdfs).

Pacific Food System Outlook Report 2007-2008: Linkages to Growing Urban Markets Spur Economic Development.

Pacific Food System Outlook Report 2006-2007: The Future Role of Biofuels

Pacific Food System Outlook Report 2005 - A Revolution in Food Retailing

Pacific Food System Outlook Report 2004 - The Role of Transportation Infrastructure in a Seamless Food System

Pacific Food System Outlook Report 2003 - Where Demographics Will Take the Food System

Pacific Food System Outlook Report 2002 - Making the Region's Food Supplies Safer

Pacific Food System Outlook Report 2001 - Meeting the Challenge of Water Scarcity

Know Your USDA Watersheds

VincentD — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:35:01 GMT

Know Your USDA Watersheds

By Don Comis
December 4, 2008

For the first time, information collected over the past 40 years from instruments on large watersheds across the country is available online, thanks to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) web site.

The web site, called STEWARDS (Sustaining the Earth's Watersheds, Agricultural Research Data System), has interactive maps of watersheds. The site allows users to see the topography of the watersheds and the instrument locations, as well as download data.

Jean Steiner, director of the ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, Okla., came up with the idea of organizing data from watersheds nationwide into one site with a standardized format. One key purpose is to make the information available to people involved in the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) and to expand the usefulness of the information gathered at each watershed for nationwide analyses.

CEAP began in 2003 as a multi-agency effort to quantify the environmental benefits of conservation practices used by private landowners participating in selected U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation programs.

But the data are also crucial to others doing hydrological analyses, and to the public, especially to people living in these watersheds.

The data include information on pesticides, nitrogen and phosphorous in streams, rivers, lakes and drinking water reservoirs. The web site also has data on daily stream discharge levels, air and soil temperature and other weather data.

In addition to Steiner, the ARS team, now led by Jerry Hatfield, laboratory director at Ames, Iowa, also included Cropland CEAP Coordinator John Sadler at Columbia, Mo.; Jin-Song Chen, formerly a hydrologist at El Reno; information technology specialists Greg Wilson at Beltsville, Md., John Ross at El Reno, Teri Oster at Columbia, David James and Kevin Cole at Ames; and computer programmer Bruce Vandenberg at Fort Collins, Colo.

Two papers on STEWARDS appear in the November-December 2008 issue of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

Horticultural Industry as a Vector for Invasive Snails and Slugs

VincentD — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:24:32 GMT

You may have seen the news reports about the horticultural industry serving as a vector for invasive slugs and snails into Hawaii, including this one from the Sunday, November 30, 2008 Honolulu Advertiser. Dr. Robert Cowie and his colleagues surveyed 40 nurseries, botanical gardens and other facilities involved in the cultivation of plants across the Hawaii Islands. In their survey, published in the International Journal of Pest Management Vol. 54(4):267-276, found 31 terrestrial snail and slug species, all but two of them were considered "alien" and five of the 31 were previously unreported. Certain species were more common on Oahu.

Figure 1. Location of snail/slug surveys (from Cowie et al. 2008)

You can download Dr. Cowie's paper from the International Journal of Pest Management via the University of Hawaii at Manoa Hamilton Library, click on Electronic Journals and Books, enter the journal name in the search box and then follow the log-in prompts.

The citation of the paper is:

Cowie, R.H., K.A. Hayes, C.T. Tran, Meyer III, W.M. 2008. The horticultural industry as a vector of alien snails and slugs: widespread invasions in Hawaii. Int. J. Pest Manage. 54:267-276. DOI: 10.1080/09670870802403986

Cost Sharing FAQ

VincentD — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:23:19 GMT

Find some information about how to prepare cost sharing information for grant proposals here:

http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/vincent/Cost_Sharing_FAQ.pdf

University of Wisconsin Extension Sustainable Communities Capacity Center

VincentD — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:13:25 GMT

The University of Wisconsin - Extension Sustainability Team has established a new Website: "Sustainable Communities Capacity Center." The web site was designed to help local governments, businesses and the public to engage in sustainable community development. Future pages will include other aspects of sustainability such as Economic Development, Planning and Land Use, Energy and Climate Change, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Consumer Choices and Community Stories. Click on "Tool Box" for a list of topics covered (or to be covered) by this resource.

Of particular interest was a presentation entitled "Transdisciplinary Economics for Stability" by Manfred A. Max-Neff.