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Development Land Use Toolbox
Maryland - You and Your Community:
What You Can Do With Others links
University
of Maryland
Environmental
Finance Center,
http://www.efc.umd.edu/
Description:
The Environmental Finance Center works with communities to develop innovative
funding and financing strategies for environmental and community development
projects. The Center is supported through a partnership with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
University
of Maryland
GIS
and Mapping Services,
http://www.gisms.umd.edu/
Description:
The Geographic Information Systems and Mapping Services (GIS-MS) is the
mapping and spatial analysis component for the Department of Anthropology
at the University of Maryland. Here we offer analytical and cartographic
services to clients inside and outside the university.
Topics: Historic Preservation, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
University
of Maryland
Institute
for Governmental Service,
http://www.vprgs.umd.edu/igs/
Description:
Founded in 1959 as a public service unit of the University of Maryland
College Park, the Institute for Governmental Service works with governments
and community organizations to enhance governance in the state.
Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
University
of Maryland
Mid-Atlantic
RESAC,
http://www.geog.umd.edu/resac/
Description:
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center (RESAC) is
one of 7 regional centers funded by NASA's Earth Science Applications
Program. The Mid-Atlantic RESAC leverages the UMD Geography Department's
expertise in satellite remote sensing and the work of a diverse consortium
of 36 partners in Government, Academia, Industry and NGOs to address applications
of regional significance.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Other Maryland Links
Alliance
for the Chesapeake Bay
Alliance
for the Chesapeake Bay,
http://www.acb-online.org/
Description: The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is a regional nonprofit organization that builds and fosters partnerships to protect and to restore the Bay and its rivers. The Alliance does not lobby or litigate. Instead, we do the slow, hard work of bridging dialogue between groups that don't see eye-to-eye, forming strategies for joint solutions, and building the capacity of communities for local-level action.
Topics: Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland, Pennsylvania
Anacostia
Watershed Society
Anacostia
Watershed Society Homepage,
http://www.anacostiaws.org/
Description: The Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS) is a local, 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization that is working to protect and restore the Anacostia River and its watershed. AWS seeks to fulfill its mandate of a swimmable and fishable river through its programs of education, action and advocacy.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Appalachian
Mountain Club
Appalachian
Mountain Club,
http://www.outdoors.org/
Description:
The enhancement program reflects a growing recognition that transportation
programs, while vital for national mobility and international competitiveness,
must also be environmentally sound. The Vermont Agency of Transportation
(VTrans) encourages local communities to be directly involved in enhancement
projects. Enhancement activities are a means to more creatively and sensitively
integrate transportation facilities into the surrounding communities.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
Clean
Water Action
Clean
Water Action: Maryland,
http://www.cleanwateraction.org/md/index.htm
Description: Clean Water Action is a national citizens' organization working for clean, safe and affordable water, prevention of health-threatening pollution, creation of environmentally-safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Natural Resources
Rivers
and Streams,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/streams/index.html
Description: Maryland DNR monitors streams in many ways and for many reasons. Find out what is going in your stream and how you can help improve stream water quality and protect and restore streams.
Topics: Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Natural Resources
Tributary
Strategies,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/tribstrat/index.html
Description: Maryland's Tributary Teams meet regularly in each of the Bay's ten major tributaries to help implement pollution prevention measures needed to address local water quality problems. These teams are laying the groundwork to ensure clean water and healthy rivers for future generations. A major focus of their efforts is controlling nutrient pollution from farm fields and horse pastures, wastewater treatment plants, construction and road building activities, and hundreds of thousands of suburban properties.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Herring
Run Watershed Association
Herring
Run Watershed Association,
http://www.herringrun.org/
Description:
The mission of The Herring Run Watershed Association (HRWA) is to improve
the environmental quality of the Herring Run watershed for the mutual
benefit of its communities and the Chesapeake Bay. We do this by mobilizing
volunteers for advocacy, restoration, and education.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Maryland
Association of Forest Conservancy District Boards
Maryland
Association of Forest Conservancy District Boards,
http://www.mdforest.sailorsite.net/
Description:
For more than fifty years, Maryland's Forest Conservancy District Boards
have been working to perpetuate Maryland's forest resource. As volunteer
advocates for forestry, Forestry Board members focus their attention on
Maryland's trees and forests...our renewable natural resource.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Maryland
Association of Nonprofit Organizations
Maryland
Association of Nonprofit Organizations,
http://www.mdnonprofit.org/
Description:
The Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations ("Maryland Nonprofits")
was established in 1992 as a result of a comprehensive statewide organizing
effort in the nonprofit and philanthropic community. Literally hundreds
of nonprofit executives and volunteer leaders helped to determine whether
such an organization was needed, as well as what kinds of functions it
would perform. The decision to establish a new organization was made,
and Maryland Nonprofits became incorporated in the summer of 1991.
Topics: What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Mid-Atlantic
Environmental Law Center
Mid-Atlantic
Environmental Law Center,
http://www.maelc.org/index.html
Description:
The Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center is a not-for-profit environmental
law firm that provides legal services to public interest organizations
in environmental matters. The Center counsels clients, educates the public,
submits comments to agencies, and litigates cases when necessary.
Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Nanticoke
Watershed Alliance
Nanticoke
Watershed Alliance,
http://www.nanticokeriver.org/index.html
Description:
The mission of the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance is to conserve the natural,
cultural, and recreational resources of the Nanticoke River watershed
for the benefit of present and future generations.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland
Potomac
Trail Council
Potomac
Trail Council,
http://www.potomactrail.org/
Description:
The Potomac Trail Council (PTC) is an alliance of community organizations
and local agencies committed to the development, protection, interpretation
and celebration of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail (PHNST).
Our goal is to secure land and water routes in the PHNST corridor for
public use while protecting natural settings and historic landscapes.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland, Pennsylvania
Sustainable
Development Institute
Community
Planning - St. Mary's County,
http://www.susdev.org/Community_Planning/community_planning.html
Description:
Our goal is to engage local citizens and leaders in a broad effort to
define core values and aspirations connected to place, and build community
consensus and policy around them. Our methodology's organizing principle
is whole systems thinking, as defined and practiced in recent years by
the late Donella Meadows and others, and applying this methodology to
critical issues in a rapidly evolving community.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
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This page was last updated on July 13, 2005.
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