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DOE Industrial Technologies Program Financing Toolbook
Helps manufacturers work through key issues and alternatives relating to financing manufacturing modernization. Includes the following sections: 1) Financing options and strategies; 2) Case studies; 3) Federal programs; and 4) State programs.

EPA's Guidebook of Financial Tools
Provides an overview of a wide range of ways and means that are useful in paying for sustainable environmental systems. The guidebook is divided into 10 sections, presenting outline information on approximately 250 financial tools. The first five sections present comprehensive financing tools that include traditional means of raising revenue, borrowing capital, enhancing credit, creating public-private partnerships, and ways of providing technical assistance.

Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance (OEA) Environmental Assistance Loans
Applications accepted on a rolling basis through April 1, 2005. Maximum loan is $100,000 at 0%; 1-to-1 match loan required. Small- and medium-sized businesses and institutions eligible. Preference will be given to projects related to waste reduction, pollution prevention, and other prevention-based or preventative technologies and practices.

National Recycling Coalition's National Recycling Financing Initiative (NRFI)
NRFI researches, documents, and publishes information on successful capital information strategies for recycling businesses; provides information and conducts outreach to targeted investors on successful financial deals and investment opportunities in the recycling industry; and provides state market development officials and business development specialists with a centralized source of information and training to assist recycling businesses in obtaining financing.

CookingYourNestEgg.org
Results For America (RFA) sponsors this site to be an easy-to-use research tool for investors concerned about global warming who want to know more about its potential risk to the value of their mutual fund shares.

Articles and Publications

Facilitating the Flow of Capital to the Pollution Prevention Industry (pdf)
Explores ways in which third parties might facilitate the flow of private investment capital to P2 companies. The report begins with an analysis of the reasons that P2 firms currently are not financed, and then proceeds to identify roles for third parties based on this analysis.

Northeast-Midwest Institute Nonpoint Finance Project (pdf)
The Northeast-Midwest Institute collaborated with the Marine Studies Consortium in a project to identify innovative ways to finance nonpoint source water pollution reduction.

An Inventory and Assessment of Pollution Control and Prevention
Financing Programs
Summarizes research by the Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center undertaken to inventory and assess selected environmental financing assistance programs for pollution control and prevention. Available from the GLEFC at 216-687-6947.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance publications
ILSR offers numerous titles on Reuse, Recycling, Solid Waste Management,and Recycling-based Economic Development from thier Waste to Wealth Program. Some are available online. Titles include Financing Recycling-Related Ventures: Options for Community Development, and Government/Community Based Sources and Strategies for Financing Recycling Enterprises.

Last updated January 10, 2005

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