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ISC’s Vice President for Urban Programs Steve Nicholas is attending COP21 – here’s his second report (read Parts 1, 3, and 4). Follow us on [...]
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Ended soonThis post is by Steve Nicholas, our Vice President of Urban Programs. Read his other COP 21 posts: Part 2, 3, and 4.
Not even those terrible acts of terror two weeks back can keep me from traveling to Paris tomorrow for the 21st [...]
Ended soonThis blog by Debra Perry is cross-posted from Resilient Vermont.
It’s a beautiful day in Vermont, blue skies and just a few puffy clouds. A far cry from the steady downpour of August 28, 2011, when Tropical Storm Irene made its [...]
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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 [...]
Ended soonThis month, there have been some powerful stories about climate despair. Esquire Magazine tracked down Jason Box, a climatologist in Copenhagen who was outspoken about possible climate impacts on social media – and got some real [...]
Ended soonJust over a month ago, Pope Francis released Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, a papal encyclical calling for a dialogue on the immense challenges facing the planet. In it, Pope Francis lays out his primary concerns about [...]
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In 2009, fresh from several years of working for state and federal government, I found myself in the nonprofit world with an opportunity to work exclusively on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 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 [...]