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ISC China Communications Manager Huang Wei shared this great success story from our nonprofit partner in Xiaolan.The Zhongshan Xiaolan Low Carbon [...]
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We’ve been talking quite a bit about community resilience lately – it’s emerging as a real theme in our work and in the conversations we’re having with [...]
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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 [...]
Ended soonFor the past three years, ISC has been the Learning Network Coordinator for the HUD and EPA-funded, Sustainable Communities Initiative. The Initiative supported the work of 143 urban, suburban and rural places as they developed plans [...]
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We spend lots of time at ISC on big concepts – sustainability, resilience, adaptation and mitigation – but it’s in the field that we see these concepts made real [...]
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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 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 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 [...]