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About EPSI

Environmental Planning Solutions, Inc. (EPSI) is committed to providing cost-effective, state-of-the-art environmental planning services to both public and private sector clients.  EPSI is certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) with the Illinois and Indidana Departments of Transportation and as a small, woman-owned business with the Department of Defense.

EPSI Services Provided:

Watershed planning

Impact assessment & permits

Developing resource protection strategies

Wetland resources & policy analysis

Meeting facilitation

Public involvement

Strategic planning

EPSI has been engaged in two major projects: 

        Illinois Natural Areas Inventory              Sustainable Watershed Action Team

 
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Springfield, Inc. hosted an urban sprawl seminar on June 29, 2010, to discuss issues related to sustainable development, including stormwater management, redevelopment of the city core, and conservation design.  The panel included: Dr. Deanna Glosser, President/CEO, Environmental Planning Solutions, Inc.; Norm Simms, Executive Director of the Springfield Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission; Paul O’Shea FAIA, Planning and Design Coordinator for the City of Springfield; Gail Simpson, Springfield Ward 2 Alderman

Click here for Dr. Glosser’s presentation, entitled, “Smart Growth –Creating a Sustainable Springfield”.
 

Dr. Deanna Glosser, EPSI President, has continued work on community and regional food planning with the American Planning Association.  This has included speaking to 300 planners in Duluth, Minnesota at the Minnesota American Planning Association’s annual conference.  Dr. Glosser was a keynote luncheon speaker, invited by Blue Cross-Blue Shield’s Center for Prevention.  The presentation was entitled
Local Food Systems & Planning: A Path Forward – Food Planning Transitions”.

 

Dr. Glosser has also published several articles, including:
APA’s Food Planning Policy Guide in Action”, published in the Summer 08 issue of Private Practice Perspectives, the American Planning Association’s Private Practice Division newsletter.

 
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