Want to reduce energy costs? Start with water. Sounds counter-intuitive, but for many municipal governments water utilities are the single largest source of energy cost and emissions (30%-40% of municipal energy use). We need to focus more resources on the water / energy nexus. The good news is there are technical assistance programs and low-cost financial tools to do just that.

As 2025 comes to a close, we see opportunities everywhere. A rapid evolution in climate and environmental finance has led to the most interesting, practical innovations emerging from the places closest to land, water, food, and community infrastructure. In this blog we take a closer look at 3 of our partnerships to demonstrate where the field of climate finance innovation is heading.

In this blog, we shine a spotlight on the challenges faced by manufactured home communities (MHC) and and recommend 5 actions we should take to improve the quality of life for the MHC residents of today and tomorrow. 

We recommend two key actions for the U.S. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to realize its full potential to reduce emissions, mobilize private capital, and address historic environmental inequalities.
1. Broaden GGRF Scope to Enable Financing of Nature-Based Projects
2. Capitalize a National Green Bank and Empower it to Leverage the Full Array of Funding Opportunities

People are healthier when they have access to clean water and natural infrastructure amenities. Identifying the population health benefits of public infrastructure projects opens the door to more public-private partnerships – offering private actors an opportunity to finance solutions that close budget gaps for public infrastructure AND drive measurable environmental and health improvements.