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by Huang Wei | December 29, 2015

Accelerating Solar Power in Zhongshan City

Ended soon ISC China Communications Manager Huang Wei shared this great success story from our nonprofit partner in Xiaolan.The Zhongshan Xiaolan Low Carbon [...]

Why

by ISC Team | November 5, 2015

What is Community Resilience, and Why Does It Matter?

Ended soon 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 [...]

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 [...]

Current Events

by Haley Lacuesta | June 17, 2015

Better Plans for Better Places Report

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 [...]

Climate

by ISC Team | June 4, 2015

Spring Snapshots from China: Local Climate Action

Ended soonBlog post by ISC’s Senior Program Officer Elaine Wang 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 [...]

Opinion

by ISC Team | January 13, 2015

The time is right for India to take action!

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 [...]

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 [...]

Partners

by ISC Team | August 21, 2014

Federal Partnership for Sustainable Communities Celebrates 5 Years

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 [...]

Climate

by ISC Team | August 6, 2014

Collaborating for Transformational Change

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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