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by ISC Team | March 15, 2018

Ended soon Our partners say it best—empowering community-based organizations and the residents [...]

by Ben Paulos | December 5, 2017

Energy Resilience in San Francisco and New York City

Ended soon 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 [...]

Climate

by Ben Paulos | December 1, 2017

New Solar Tools

Ended soon Over the past three years, the Solar Market Pathways project, a U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office initiative, has supported 14 [...]

Partners

by ISC Team | November 1, 2017

Meet the Master Rain Gardeners of Detroit’s Lower Eastside

Ended soon Empowering residents to lead resilience efforts is critical to developing solutions that are responsive and relevant to all members of a community. [...]

Partners

by Nicole Enright | October 31, 2017

Pioneering Community Solar in Kansas City

Ended soon In 2016 alone, the community solar market quadrupled, with 101 community solar projects installing more than 108 megawatts of shared solar across the [...]

Climate

by ISC Team | November 2, 2016

Resilience Dialogues

Ended soon 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 [...]

Current Events

by Steve Nicholas | August 26, 2016

Connecting Watershed Communities

Ended soon As we look back on the five years since Tropical Storm Irene, one of the biggest changes we’ve observed has been in Vermonters’ understanding of [...]

Climate

by Haley Lacuesta | August 27, 2015

Building Resilient Regions

Ended soonWhat’s hot this summer? Regional resilience. Local action is an essential component of effective climate action – but we’re pretty excited about the all of the ways that regional action – local leaders working together – can [...]

Resilience

by ISC Team | June 23, 2015

Global Resilience Challenge: Snapshots from Bangladesh

Ended soon[slideshow name=”Bangladesh Trip Blog”] Our team just finished up some fieldwork in Bangladesh as part of our research for the Global Resilience Challenge. If you don’t know about the Challenge, it’s a grant competition led [...]

Climate

by ISC Team | January 16, 2015

ASAP – Action for Resilience and Adaptation

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 [...]

Event

by ISC Team | September 30, 2014

Engagement by Listening

Ended soon I just returned from ISC’s Sustainable Leadership Academy: Empowering Community Resilience. The two-day intensive workshop was focused on helping [...]

Climate

by ISC Team | August 28, 2014

Vermont & Irene: Learning to Bounce Forward

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 [...]

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