Climate Archives - Institute for Sustainable Communities

by Sushama Darne | December 4, 2020

Maintaining Soil Health – Key to Agricultural Development

Back in 2015, the United Nations launched the International Year of the Soils and flagged off the first ever World Soil Day on December 5th. The nourishing, sustaining life force on which agriculture inalienably relies, has been called [...]

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by Romit Sen | October 23, 2020

Gender Sensitive Response to Climate Crisis

A crowd of people jostling by the ticket counter at Jhansi Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh; men and women, some with families in tow, boarding trains to Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai and other big cities. These are common sights during the summer [...]

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by ISC Team | October 9, 2020

Interconnectedness of Water & Livelihood with Other Aspects of Atmanirbhar Bharat

ISC's Country Director - India, Vivek Adhia highlights the role of water as an important driver to enable a resilient and sustainable recovery, for India to become self-reliant. He details how the COVID-19 pandemic has provided an opportunity to [...]

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by ISC Team | August 20, 2020

3 Key Approaches in Building Resilient Cotton Cultivating Communities

India may be the world’s largest producer of cotton, but cotton cultivating communities in the country face serious risks associated with high water stress and low community resilience to climate change. The need of the hour is to promote [...]

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by Ravikant Kumar | August 19, 2020

In Response to Climate Change, Cotton Farmers Work to Understand and Conserve Water Resources

Annual rainfall that cannot support robust cotton cultivation, and fast-declining ground water levels are real risks cotton farmers must manage for their crops and their livelihoods. Vijay Narayan Rau, a cotton farmer in Kalamb block of Yavatmal [...]

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by Brent Habig | April 20, 2020

COVID-19 and Climate Change in Developing Countries: A Call to Action

While the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic is currently in the United States and Europe, much of its damage and impacts will be determined by its spread in low-and-middle income countries, i.e. the Global South, with billions of people [...]

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by Steve Adams | December 17, 2019

Bridging the Gap

So much of our work at ISC is about bridging gaps. Gaps between the myriad of uncoordinated departments, agencies, nonprofits, businesses, and individuals charged with keeping us healthy and safe; gaps between commitment to tackling climate and [...]

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by Haley Lacuesta | November 21, 2019

Report: Market-Driven Deployment of CleanTech

Report: Market-Driven Energy Efficiency in Industry Identifying Barriers to CleanTech Deployment India’s national manufacturing policy has set a target for the manufacturing sector to contribute 25% to India’s Gross Domestic Product [...]

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by Haley Lacuesta | November 21, 2019

Podcast: Net-Zero Cities in China

Podcast: Net-Zero Cities in China Regardless of how you view China’s domestic and international policies, it is essential that we help them accelerate their greenhouse gas reductions if we are to have any hope of staying below the 1.5° tipping [...]

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by ISC Team | October 5, 2018

PODCAST: Two Perspectives of the Global Climate Action Summit

ISC's George Hamilton, Brent Habig and Steve Nicholas attended the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco September 12-14, 2018.The Summit was an invite-only event where governments, businesses, activists, and nonprofits could gather, [...]

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by George Hamilton | October 1, 2018

Climate Action on Tour: From Mumbai to New York with a stop in San Francisco

After a year of unprecedented storms, floods, and wildfires, it’s now well established that the effects of climate change are upon us. In fact, IPCC last week released a dire warning – giving us just over a decade to completely transform our [...]

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by ISC Team | June 28, 2018

Video: City and Community Approaches to Resilient Solar

https://youtu.be/w2XlUMewt1A Communities across the U.S. are exploring how resilient solar can help strengthen resilience, advance renewable energy goals, and best serve vulnerable neighborhoods during disasters. In Baltimore, Duluth, New York [...]

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