Envirosense

As I was working on a project for another class I came across the envirosense website. This is a site dedicated to "commen sense solutions to environmental problems". There are levels for Federal, state and local, or international government. Looking around I found the envirnomental accounting/banking section. There are several links to other pages and articles about this topic. There is a similar page on energy efficiency. Many of these links are related to the EPA because the envirosense website is part of the EPA's website.

Through this site I found the EPA innovations strategy. This speaks about the EPA recognizing the need "for a broader set of tools than we have relied upon in the past to address increasingly complex problems." If there are increasingly complex problems, and we know there are everytime new technology and new ideas comes out, there must be new solutions. As we have talked about in the past I think about all the ways that could be found to help prevent some of these new problems if the EPA's regulations allowed for more creativity. For more creativity there is often a need for incentives to be creative. The EPA says "Compliance Incentives are a set of policies and programs that eliminate, reduce or waive penalties..."