Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah — A program that helps people buy homes in Ogden has been a success, city officials say, but there’s still one significant marker in the plan where they’d like to see improvement. Cathy Fuentes, grants administrator for Ogden, said the city’s Own in Ogden program provided 74 loans (worth a total of $442,576) to home buyers during 2020. Established in 1988, the program is designed to help low- to moderate-income residents own homes inside Ogden city boundaries.

OGDEN, Utah – As the world looks beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, a consensus is emerging: certain measures to curb the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions will be central to global economic recovery. Awareness is also growing around the urgent need to slow the destruction of the natural world, and it is becoming clear that the two environmental crises—a changing climate and nature loss—are inextricably linked and compounding. Natural climate solutions (NCS)—conservation, restoration, and land-management actions that increase carbon storage and avoid greenhouse-gas emissions—offer a way to address both crises and to increase resilience as the climate changes. In fact, as argued in a…