Ended soonThis post is by Anna Casey. It originally appeared at the CityLinks blog in April, 2014, and was featured recently on USAID’s Learning Lab.
Last week, I returned to chilly “mud season” in Vermont from sunny Santo Domingo [...]
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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 [...]
Ended soonEditor’s note: this post is a reflection by Suresh Kotla, ISC’s Acting Country Director in India
I started working with the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) in January 2014, and have been engaged in work that has been [...]
Ended soonThis post written by Stephanie Rust.
In my day-to-day work I rarely stop to think about what ISC was doing ten years ago, but I was prompted to do so last month when Andriy Skipalskyi, a former ISC staff member from the Ukraine [...]
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 soonGuest post by Kelly Standart
At the beginning of my six-week internship at ISC, I chose to research Palm Oil, in preparation for an upcoming trip to Indonesia by ISC President George Hamilton. I was pretty unaware of palm oil as a crop [...]
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I just returned from ISC’s Sustainable Leadership Academy: Empowering Community Resilience. The two-day intensive workshop was focused on helping [...]
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 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are celebrating the fifth anniversary of their unprecedented collaboration: the [...]
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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