Michael Collins — a conservationist, entrepreneur, environmental and urban planner, and educator — founds the Association for Conservation Real Estate (Conserv), to recognize the value of ecological assets in real estate transactions.
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Southeastern Climate Restoration Solutions program launches to implement our growing realization that modifications in landscape management could be a cost-effective natural solution for carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Services selects us as a partner with a multi-million-dollar award to expand measurement and monitoring of carbon in soil on working agricultural […]
The Board of Directors unanimously decides to change our name to American Climate Partners.
StreamSweepers cleans over 35 miles of the Clinch River, providing summer jobs to 15 young people, and removing over 1,600 tires and over 25 tons of other trash.
The Center launches the Rapidan Institute to focus on comprehensive fisheries and floodplain habitat restoration in the Rapidan and Robinson River watersheds, and the Rapidan Fish Passage Project (RFPP) to restore free flow to the Rapidan River by modifying a dam at the village of Rapidan and reconnect the river’s headwaters with the Chesapeake Bay […]
StreamSweepers cleans the Rappahannock from Waterloo to Remington and assists Hazel River and Middle River volunteers with comprehensive ecological assessments and light cleaning of those rivers, wrapping up the Rappahannock River Basin Comprehensive Clean-Up. The Clinch River Clean-Up continues its assessment of the river and plans for the launch of a five-year clean-up effort to […]
Al Weed — a conservationist, entrepreneur, winemaker, community leader, and US Army Special Forces veteran — founds Public Policy Virginia (PPV) to use grassroots communication to promote public policy initiatives focused on health, energy, and climate change in rural areas of Virginia.