by Jonathan Doherty | Nov 10, 2020 | Lightning Update
The Chesapeake Conservation Partnership engaged scores of participants from across the watershed in three October 2020 workshops to gather guidance and generate ideas on how to operationalize a new draft public health goal (see below) and its clear focus on equity....
by Jonathan Doherty | Oct 28, 2020 | Lightning Update
Participants in the 2019 Conservation Finance Intensive learned from a dozen experts in innovative conservation finance practices. A new initiative will expand on this course. (Photo: CFN) Conservation takes money. And it takes knowing how to find it, especially in...
by Jonathan Doherty | Oct 27, 2020 | Lightning Update
Geospatial data and analysis is more available than ever before and conservationists use it. But do we have and use the data and analysis we need for addressing issues around public health, equity and conservation? Here’s just one example, mapping population by...
by Jonathan Doherty | Oct 20, 2020 | Lightning Update
Urban to the left (Baltimore MD). Rural to the right (near Wrightsville PA). In either case, most of these kids had never been in or on the water before these experiences, despite living just short distances away.(Photos: left – James Chang for NPS; right...
by Jonathan Doherty | Oct 13, 2020 | Lightning Update
About seven years ago community residents began organizing to turn a decaying, abandoned park space into a new model community park in Baltimore. Find out more in this video. (Photo: Bernard C. Jack Young/Twitter) Over the past six months, Lightning Updates have...
