Nature-based climate resilience for business and community
Manage Novel Risks, Capture New Opportunities
Resilience Planning
We use best management practices and leading edge assessment, planning, and management tools to help you understand your climate risks and explore no-regrets adaptation pathways that cultivate resilience to the novel uncertainties associated with a changing climate…
Climate Listening
We travel the world to gather stories from business, community, and government leaders working together to develop local, place-based innovations that put sustainability values into action in order to reduce climate risk and cultivate community resilience…
Sharing Stories
We blend real world stories of resilience with leading edge climate science and resilience thinking to raise awareness and increase understanding of climate change and community resilience among the general public, community leaders, higher education, and government …
News & Updates
Climate Change Denial is Expensive!
Climate Change Denial is a VERY expensive policy position. No matter how the we play it, we are going to have to invest dollars. We can invest in transforming our use of energy or we can invest cleaning up the mess caused by our pollution of the atmosphere. One...
Farmers Don’t Need to Read the Science: They are Living It
"FIREBAUGH, Calif. — Many farmers probably haven’t read the new report from the United Nations warning of threats to the global food supply from climate change and land misuse. But we don’t need to read the science — we’re living it. Here in the San Joaquin Valley,...
Practical Farmers of Iowa Field Day at the Rosmann Family Farm in Harlan
I am looking forward to catching up with Resilient Agriculture farmers Ron and Maria Rosmann in just a few weeks. Ron and Maria have invited me to open the field day by sharing some of the lessons I’ve learned from sustainable farmers and ranchers about how to...
Working Lands Offer Climate Solutions, No Matter Location
"LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday the appointment of Los Angeles’ first forest officer, a position that will oversee urban forests in an effort to plant 90,000 trees by 2021. “Every tree we plant can help stem the tide of the climate crisis, and...
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