Thank you to all who attended our Earth Day webinar to launch our GiveBIG campaign for 2024. We are excited to share that we will be raising funds to support the Tacoma Tree Foundation (TTF) with an economic analysis. All funds raised during this year’s GiveBIG will be used to cover the staff time for Earth Economics to produce a benefit-cost analysis of TTF’s tree planting in and around Tacoma. If you missed it, you can view a recording of the webinar here.
On January 31, Angela Fletcher (Senior Researcher and Data and Tools Manager) presented our work valuing the co-benefits of rangeland management in the southwestern US at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Range Management in Sparks, NV. She summarized the results of the work, which reveal a broad sense of the economic importance of rangeland conservation investment in providing non-market benefits to communities.
In 2024, we will focus our pro bono efforts on expanding our schoolyard greening efforts. We are currently working with the Trust for Public Lands to assess the benefits that green schoolyards in Tacoma, WA provide to students, teachers, and the broader community. Please help us to increase the number of schools we can include in these assessments.
Healthy Ecosystems. Resilient Communities.
We all rely on services provided by nature, often without realizing it or in ways we don’t fully recognize. Earth Economics identifies and quantifies those benefits to ensure they are included in the decision-making process at all levels, so communities can mitigate risk, increase resilience, and protect their natural capital wealth.
Our Mission
We quantify and value the benefits nature provides - our work drives effective decisions and systemic change through a combination of education, natural capital analysis, and policy recommendations.
Our Vision
We envision a future where communities, nature, and industry all thrive together.