Resilience Archives - Institute for Sustainable Communities

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 [...]

Climate

by Ben Paulos | December 1, 2017

New Solar Tools

Over the past three years, the Solar Market Pathways project, a U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office initiative, has supported 14 innovative solar projects around the country with the goal of increasing solar energy [...]

Partners

by ISC Staff | November 1, 2017

Meet the Master Rain Gardeners of Detroit’s Lower Eastside

Empowering residents to lead resilience efforts is critical to developing solutions that are responsive and relevant to all members of a community. That’s why we are partnering with community-based organizations like Eastside Community Network [...]

Partners

by Nicole Enright | October 31, 2017

Pioneering Community Solar in Kansas City

In 2016 alone, the community solar market quadrupled, with 101 community solar projects installing more than 108 megawatts of shared solar across the country. The next five years will see the addition of 1.8 gigawatts, helping expand the [...]

Climate

by ISC Staff | November 2, 2016

Resilience Dialogues

Monday was Resilience Day at the White House (which we think is almost as much fun as Big Block of Cheese Day) and we’re seeing a whole bunch of great action and information about the importance of resilience. The White House has outlined [...]

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