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EJ4Climate Projects

EJ4Climate Projects

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2022 - 2023 Active

Collaborative Community Research and Action to Build Climate Change Resiliency on California’s Largest Lake

Since 2015, catastrophic wildfires have burned >60% of Lake County. Epic drought has lowered lake, slough, and marshland water levels and amplified toxic chemical concentrations in...

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2022 - 2023 Active

Building Multinational Climate Resilience through Cross-Border Shared Learning in Mexico, the United States, and Tohono O’odham Nation

The Madrean Archipelago is a culturally and ecologically diverse ecoregion that spans the southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, and multiple sovereign Indigenous nations. With...

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2022 - 2023 Active

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Communities on the Yucatán peninsula are living through the effects of climate change and facing major challenges: erratic rainfall is modifying production cycles and endangering food...

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2022 - 2023 Active

Snuw uy ulh tuna tumuhw (Teachings of the Land): Reconnecting Youth with Indigenous Land Stewardship Practices and Traditions

Quw’utsun people have been living on the coastal lands of the Salish Sea in for at least the last 15,000 years. Beginning in the mid-1840s, British Columbian Indigenous people have been...

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2022 - 2023 Active

From One Sea to Another: Building Community Coastal Resilience in British Columbia and Nova Scotia

The impacts of extreme weather events are being felt by a growing number of coastal communities in British Columbia and Nova Scotia as climate change increases the frequency and intensity...

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2022 - 2023 Active

Resilient Schools Consortium: Transforming Puerto Rico’s Schools into Hubs for Climate Resilience Education and Solutions

Puerto Rico, an island community of 3.3 million people, has been battered by climate-fueled storms for decades, yet has not educated or trained future generations to be prepared. There is...

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Katuxawat Totonaca
2022 - 2023 Active

Katuxawat Totonaca Community Learning Model (Cultivating Life) for Environmental Justice

Communities in the Totonacapan regions are highly vulnerable to the hydrometeorological threats impacting biodiversity, health, society and agriculture. However, tlan latamat...

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Wastewater Sanitation
2022 - 2023 Active

Wastewater Sanitation and Reduction of Agrochemical Pollution and Flooding through Natural, Community-based and Educational Solutions

The region is located in the Eastern Sierra Madres. Due to the topography, violent water surges occur during the rainy season, causing flooding and human and material losses. While most...

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2022 - 2023 Active

River voices: community management of water for resilience in the Nahua territory of Hidalgo

Due to climate change, the Nahua community of Tecpaco (Calnali, Hidalgo) is facing risks to the water supply from its aquatic socio-ecosystem, of cultural and nutritional importance. The...

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2022 - 2023 Active

Supporting Cultural and Climate Resilience for Eastern Washington Tribes through Cultural Burning and Landscape Restoration

Climate change in the Pacific Northwest, specifically in the form of megafires, threatens lands, livelihoods, and food supply, especially for Indigenous tribes. In previous decades,...

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2022 - 2023 Active

Restoring Ea

Fishponds are vulnerable to a variety of climate change impacts, including sea-level rise, changes in precipitation patterns, rising air and ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, and...

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2022 - 2023 Active

Schools for Agroecological Life: Resilience of Rural Ecosystems in the Yaqui Valley

Around the world, most food is produced by intensive agriculture. However, these practices cause multiple adverse environmental effects: greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, loss of...

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2022 - 2023 Active

Preserving Akwesasne Native Biodiversity for the Future

The strong need for fair and inclusive engagements of all to conserve native biodiversity and seeds and, at the same time, promoting the inclusion of youth in the protection of said...

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2022 - 2023 Active

One Water: An Indigenous-led Process to Increase Water Resilience for First Nations in Ontario through Rain Water Harvesting

Indigenous communities in Canada have struggled with access to safe drinking water for decades. Infrastructure deficit, pollution of water sources and lack of trained personnel are some...

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2021 - 2022 Active

Increasing the flood resilience of lower Fraser First Nations communities, while rebuilding damaged salmon habitats

Our proposed project will build on an existing major project, called “Resilient Waters” (see www.resilientwaters.ca), that is identifying key flood control sites where fish passage...

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Silver City Carboneers

Climate-related fire, drought, water scarcity, and extreme heat increasingly threaten food security in the culturally diverse (60% non-white) and economically challenged community of...

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2021 - 2022 Active

Community-led Climate Solutions for Vertical Communities

Toronto is increasingly experiencing climate-related extreme weather events such as heat waves, flooding, and ice storms, which disproportionately impact vulnerable and marginalized...

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2021 - 2022 Active

Seeding the Future – Adaptation to Climate Impacts through Healthy Ecosystems and Traditional Plants in the Piikani First Nation

Natural habitats in the Piikani Nation are vulnerable to climate impacts which will exacerbate already stressed environments due to changes in water flow from external dams, overgrazing...

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Dene Béré Harvesting Programs for Women and Youth

Food insecurity greatly affects northern Indigenous populations, and will worsen with climate change. Climate change lowers traditional food access, availability, and quality, and...

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2021 - 2022 Active

Community Participation in the Development of Climate Change Resilience Strategies for Coastal Areas

As a coastal state subject to hurricanes, Veracruz is particularly vulnerable to climate change. The community of Las Barrancas, which is located on a narrow strip of sand between the sea...

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