Ended soonThis month, there have been some powerful stories about climate despair. Esquire Magazine tracked down Jason Box, a climatologist in Copenhagen who was outspoken about possible climate impacts on social media – and got some real [...]
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We spend lots of time at ISC on big concepts – sustainability, resilience, adaptation and mitigation – but it’s in the field that we see these concepts made real [...]
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In 2009, fresh from several years of working for state and federal government, I found myself in the nonprofit world with an opportunity to work exclusively on [...]
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Post by Deb PerryEarlier this month, we announced that we are now the Network Coordinator for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Market Pathways [...]
Ended soonWhat does it take to build climate resilience? Action.
While I’m speaking from my experience in climate change resilience work, the need for action holds true for building economic resilience, social resilience, or ecological [...]
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At this time of year, we see a lot of pieces that reflect on the year – but we’re going to start with reflecting on the past six weeks, because they’ve [...]
Ended soonVermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Executive Director Ellen Kahler recently visited ISC HQ to present a webinar about the acclaimed Vermont Farm to Plate (F2P) Network’s use of Collective Impact principles to generate thousands of [...]
Ended soonGiven our six-year (and counting) relationship with the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact, and our recently launched initiative to support other, similar regional climate collaboratives across the country, we could hardly have [...]
Ended soonThree years ago today the rains came to Vermont, in a climate-change-fueled downpour that brought devastation to much of this small state. Mountainside brooks became torrents, destroying roads and bridges; in the valleys the rivers [...]
Ended soonThe need for climate resilience in communities affected by sea level rise is clear for many of us. What is less clear are the responses this threat entails. To some, resiliency can even mean completely abandoning coastal areas or [...]
Ended soonI’ve been thinking a lot about collaboration lately because we’re in the middle of planning a Sustainable Communities Leadership Academy in September – “Empowering Community Resilience.” We’ll be helping participants build unique [...]
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Those of us who work in the field of climate change have some tough challenges. On the one hand, we struggle with the fact that everyone else is not as energized, as active, as 24x7x365 concerned about what’s happening to our [...]