Meet the New USGS National Water Dashboard
| Maria BrodineTags: climate adaptation & resilience, water quality
For those of us who love maps and data, the USGS has recently published a new National Water Dashboard.
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Groundwork at River Rally 2020: Standing Up for Community Resilience
| Aditya NochurTags: climate adaptation & resilience, equitable development, UWLN
Groundwork Trusts work at the intersection of the environment, equity, and civic engagement by making tangible improvements to the natural and built environments, mainly in underserved and environmental justice communities. River Rally provides Trusts with a powerful opportunity to convene and learn from each other, take advantage of professional development opportunities, and develop contacts with a wide variety of other organizations.
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Resilience and Equity: Working with Communities, not for Communities
| Renee MazurekTags: civic & community engagement, climate adaptation & resilience, environmental justice & diversity, UWLN
As the nation faces not only a global pandemic but also a long-overdue reckoning with systems of racial oppression, the urban waters movement is not removed from either. While the intentions of wanting to help vulnerable communities become more resilient … Continued
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Resilience at Rally: History and Equity for Stronger Communities
| Renee MazurekTags: climate adaptation & resilience, environmental justice & diversity, UWLN
Following the decision to move this year’s River Rally to a virtual event rather than cancelling it altogether, River Network staff and board, organizational partners, conference presenters and sponsors instead became a model for resilience under challenging circumstances. Determined to … Continued
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Virtual River Rally 2020: Trying Something New
| Maria BrodineTags: climate adaptation & resilience, UWLN
At the Urban Waters Learning Network, there has never been a more critical time to look for what lessons can be learned, explore how we can become more adaptable, increase access for the communities where we work, and find support for communities who are constantly innovating on the frontlines of disaster.
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In a Pandemic, We Need Green Spaces More than Ever
| Cate MingoyaTags: climate adaptation & resilience, greenways & public spaces, public health, stormwater & green infrastructure, urban forestry
I want my daughter to grow up with green space to run in and clean air to breathe, under the cooling shade of trees.
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Wild Water: How Cities Are Shaping the Water Movement
| Maria BrodineTags: climate adaptation & resilience, equitable development, partnerships, UWLN, watershed planning
As urban practitioners and leaders gain seats at more tables, they are helping to change the conversation within the larger environmental movement, elevating the role of city spaces and urban communities and teaching others how to better involve people in environmental problems.
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Climate Science for All: NNOCCI Strategies to Improve Climate Communications
| Kait BirghenthalTags: climate adaptation & resilience
A recent NPR article shared insight that the vast majority of US parents want their children to be taught about climate change in school, even if most schools are not tackling the issue in their coursework. This is why groups like the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI) are so important, as they provide tools to aid informal science education centers in conducting these pivotal discussions.
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Groundwork at River Rally: Sharing the Art of a Place-Based Approach
| Maria BrodineTags: civic & community engagement, climate adaptation & resilience, environmental justice & diversity, equitable development, partnerships, urban forestry, UWLN, youth
The various Groundwork Trusts comprise a network of community-based nonprofits. They work at the intersection of the environment, equity, and civic engagement by making tangible improvements to the natural and built environment, mainly in underserved and environmental justice communities.
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Tapping Into Drinking Water: a Human Right and Precious Resource
| Maria BrodineTags: climate adaptation & resilience, drinking water, environmental justice & diversity, equitable development
Learn where your water comes from, how it’s treated, stored and distributed, and what policies and practices need to be in place to ensure that people have access to clean drinking water now and in the future.
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On the Path to Equitable Development: Partnerships are Key to Combating Gentrification and Displacement
| Renee MazurekTags: climate adaptation & resilience, environmental justice & diversity, equitable development, partnerships
While we, as urban waters practitioners, do not need to come up with all the policy solutions ourselves, we should know how to make the right connections and have the right people at the table.
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Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going: Revisiting the Spring
| Maria BrodineTags: climate adaptation & resilience, equitable development, partnerships, public outreach, UWLN
Here at the Learning Network we’ve been working hard to keep up with all the great work you’ve been doing. In 2019, we are going to expand on services we offer now, and introduce new collaborative work on themes that bubbled to the top of conversations throughout 2018.
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Resilient DC Developing Resilience Strategy
| Maria BrodineTags: climate adaptation & resilience, partnerships, watershed planning
Resilient DC is launching the second phase of its efforts to write a Resilience Strategy under the 100 Resilient Cities framework. Many members of the Urban Waters Federal Partnership are participating in its various working groups, including the only geographically-specific working group focused on the Anacostia River corridor.
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Social Infrastructure is Key to Building Resilient Communities: Insights from Ingrid Vila on the Puerto Rico Experience
| Renee MazurekTags: civic & community engagement, climate adaptation & resilience, equitable development, Federal Partnership, flooding, multilingual, partnerships
Much of the world’s population lives in coastal regions that are vulnerable to rising sea level and storm events. After the impactful 2017 hurricane season, many urban waters practitioners are asking: How do communities effectively respond to devastating storms? And, … Continued
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The One Water Vision: a Movement Toward Equitable Water Management
| Maria BrodineTags: climate adaptation & resilience, economic development, equitable development, partnerships, public health, stormwater & green infrastructure, water quality, watershed planning
Presented by the U.S. Water Alliance, the One Water Summit is a conference that seeks to bring people from all over the country, from a variety of professions, to exchange knowledge and develop strategies for achieving “a sustainable water future for all” — that is, a future where everyone has access to sufficient quantities of clean water and where water management practices are tied to healthy and thriving ecosystems, communities, and economies.
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