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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, [...]

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

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3 Lessons for Building Community Resilience to Severe Storms

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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, [...]
News
by ISC Staff | November 29, 2018
Energy Efficiency Work Mentioned by Times of India
ISC recently launched the Clean Energy Accelerator component of our India EHS+ Center program.The EHS+ Center provides environment, health, safety, and energy efficiency training and technical support to factories. The accelerator initiative is [...]
News
by ISC Staff | November 6, 2018
ISC’s Steve Adams in Miami Herald
The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact Staff Steering Committee Southeast Florida sea-level rise compact a model for other regions The editorial board of the Miami Herald wrote a wonderful piece about the leadership [...]
News
by ISC Staff | October 30, 2018
ISC Welcomes Two Board Members
Jan Blomstrann Stephen P. Groff ISC is excited to announce the addition of two members to our board of directors – NRG Systems co-founder and former CEO Jan Blomstrann, and Asian Development Bank Vice President Stephen P. [...]
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 [...]
News
by ISC Staff | October 16, 2018
Launching Upper Texas Gulf Coast Regional Resilience Initiative
Photo Credit: Ben Sassani - Harvey Flooding - Sassani Photography A year after Hurricane Harvey dumped up to 60 inches of rainfall on the Houston area – taking over 80 lives and causing an estimated $180 billion of damage – ISC and the Houston [...]
Climate
by ISC Staff | October 5, 2018
PODCAST: Two Perspectives of the Global Climate Action Summit
ISC's George Hamilton, Brent Habig and Steve Nicholas attended the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco September 12-14, 2018.The Summit was an invite-only event where governments, businesses, activists, and nonprofits could gather, [...]
Factories
by ISC Staff | September 6, 2018
Video: Net Positive Factories
https://youtu.be/8hIESEFN0Ks Across Asia, factories are engines for economic change, but that success can come at a cost. Learn about ISC's vision for manufacturing. We work with brands and factories throughout Asia to reduce emissions, and [...]
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