Resilience Archives - Institute for Sustainable Communities

by ISC Staff | December 11, 2019

New Orleans’ 7th Ward Combats Climate Change, Builds Community Resilience

Angela Chalk lives in the 7th Ward of New Orleans. Though the Ward sits adjacent to the city’s vibrant and economically critical tourism district, a bitter alchemy of geology (proximity to the Mississippi and impermeable clay soil) and a long [...]

Resilience

by Romit Sen | October 15, 2019

Celebrating International Day of Rural Women: Unleashing the power of women for sustainable cotton production in India

Tulsabai, a farmer in Sawner village of Ralegaon block in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra looks up to the sky to see if there is possibility of rains. Rainfall in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, a major cotton growing belt in India and a [...]

News

by ISC Staff | October 10, 2019

New Cohort of Partners Join Partnership for Resilient Communities

For Immediate Release: October 11, 2019New Cohort of Partners Join Partnership for Resilient Communities National equity-centered climate program welcomes new and returning partnersOctober 11, 2019 – The Institute for Sustainable Communities [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | May 30, 2019

PRC Projects Celebrate Success this Spring

From Urban Milwaukee by Jeramey Jannene Walnut Way Conservation Corp. and over 19 partners gathered Thursday morning at the Fondy Farmers Market at 2220 W. Fond du Lac Ave. Thursday morning to celebrate the completion of a number of green [...]

ISC Update

by ISC Staff | April 22, 2019

Identifying Indian Textile Water Best Practices with the Women + Water Alliance

Industrial fabric dying/screening process. Photo credit: Institute for Sustainable Communities Access to clean water is essential for community health and well-being, yet in India more than half the population faces high to extremely high water [...]

Press Release

by ISC Staff | February 6, 2019

ISC Selected to Manage Climate Change, Health & Equity Initiative

For Immediate Release: February 6, 2019 International Sustainability Organization Selected as Kresge Foundation Initiative Partner Climate Change, Health & Equity Initiative will support innovative solutions in underserved [...]

Resilience

by Anna Marandi | December 12, 2018

Preparing for Wildfire in Puget Sound

The possibility that a large wildfire could occur in the forests on the highly urbanized west side of Washington State’s Cascade Mountains is currently a remote, but real, possibility that grows every year as the region’s population increases, [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | December 6, 2018

Leading with Equity: Communities Working Toward Resilience

By Senior Program Officer Jaime Love and Program Officer Nicole EnrightTransparency, trust, truth, trauma, and healing.That’s how our New Orleans-based partners, Healthy Community Services, described their approach to their resilience project, [...]

Resilience

by ISC Staff | November 8, 2018

WHO Europe Health Evidence Network (HEN) features ISC community resilience report

The World Health Organization's Europe Health Evidence Network (HEN) just released a review of measurement strategies for community resilience, and featured ISC's report Building Community Resilience in Maricopa County as a case study of a [...]

Resilience

by Lauren Ordway | October 16, 2018

3 Lessons for Building Community Resilience to Severe Storms

Cape Hatteras, North Carolina I live in Miami – a few blocks from the bay, behind a small strip of mangroves. In recent years the city has become the poster-child for climate change and extreme weather events. I grew up, in-part, in Cape [...]

Partners

by ISC Staff | March 15, 2018

Video: Resilience for All

https://youtu.be/BBOK4rQE3C0 Our partners say it best—empowering community-based organizations and the residents they serve creates "an opportunity for monumental change." The Partnership for Resilient Communities provides community-based [...]

Climate

by Ben Paulos | December 5, 2017

Energy Resilience in San Francisco and New York City

This has been the year of the disaster. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires have ravaged North America.In addition to the terrible loss of life and property, impacted communities have struggled with the loss of energy. Electricity is the [...]

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