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In This Edition News From Around the Region Building For Birds Energy Innovation Grant Program Sustain Dane - Live Forward Award! Youth Incentive Program

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News From Around the Region

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Building for Birds

Would you like to increase the number of birds or the diversity of bird species in your community? A new tool, Building for Birds , can help design subdivisions to do just that. Landscaping layout, particularly the presence of trees, is an important factor in the type of habitat created and the resulting bird species present. This nationwide tool provides decision makers with a way to evaluate different development scenarios and assess their relative conservation value to birds for stopover, wintering, and breeding. Building for Birds uses the number of fragments in a development, the predevelopment habitat type, and the number of wooded acres conserved to predict bird utilization. Each development scenario receives a score accompanied by a list of birds likely to use those habitats.

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Energy Innovation Grant Program

The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the inaugural round of the Energy Innovation Grant Program. Wisconsin manufacturers, municipalities, tribes and K-12 school districts are encouraged to apply for the new program. Applicants can apply under two categories: planning or implementation. Planning grants will cover facility audits, fleet audits, feasibility studies and comprehensive energy plans. Implementation grants will cover building energy efficiency projects, renewable energy, alternative fuel vehicles and infrastructure, and associated training and operations.

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Sustain Dane - Live Forward Award!

Do you know young people (under 30) who are making social and environmental change? Someone who, in their professional or personal life, is actively making social and environmental change?  Nominate them for   Sustain Dane's Live Forward Award!   Deadline in Friday, June 8. | En español:  bit.ly/LFnomSP

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Youth Incentive Program

A Greater Madison Vision invites schools and nonprofits serving youth to participate in the Survey Incentive Program by encouraging their supporters, members, program participants, and other interested individuals to take the A Greater Madison Vision survey between September 12 and November 12, 2018. A Greater Madison Vision will gather public input for the next regional development plan. This plan will help determine growth and development in the Greater Madison region through 2040.

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Events Next RPC Commission meeting June 11th, 2018 @ 6:15pm City County Building Rm 321 210 Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard Madison WI, 53703