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Collaborative Community Research and Action to Build Climate Change Resiliency on California’s Largest Lake
Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians
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 aquatic biota. Rising...
Building Multinational Climate Resilience through Cross-Border Shared Learning in Mexico, the United States, and Tohono O’odham Nation
Borderlands Restoration Network (BRN)
The Madrean Archipelago is a culturally and ecologically diverse ecoregion that spans the southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, and multiple sovereign Indigenous nations. With isolated mountain ranges separated by...
Mayan women promoting solar power
Túumben K'óoben, S.C. de R.L. de C.V.
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 systems due to...
Snuw uy ulh tuna tumuhw (Teachings of the Land): Reconnecting Youth with Indigenous Land Stewardship Practices and Traditions
Stqeeye' Learning Society
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...
From One Sea to Another: Building Community Coastal Resilience in British Columbia and Nova Scotia
Stewardship Centre for British Columbia
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...
Resilient Schools Consortium: Transforming Puerto Rico’s Schools into Hubs for Climate Resilience Education and Solutions
Organizacion Pro Ambiente Sustentable
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...
Katuxawat Totonaca Community Learning Model (Cultivating Life) for Environmental Justice
Consejo Totonaco de Organizaciones y Comunidades
Communities in the Totonacapan regions are highly vulnerable to the hydrometeorological threats impacting biodiversity, health, society and agriculture. However, tlan latamat (the Totonacan model of good living) relates to...
Wastewater Sanitation and Reduction of Agrochemical Pollution and Flooding through Natural, Community-based and Educational Solutions
Central de Servicios para el Desarrollo de Puebla, A.C.
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...
River voices: community management of water for resilience in the Nahua territory of Hidalgo
Asesoría Social Productiva, A.C.
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 problem...
Supporting Cultural and Climate Resilience for Eastern Washington Tribes through Cultural Burning and Landscape Restoration
Conservation Northwest
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, western wildfires were limited...
Restoring Ea
Mālama Loko Ea Foundation
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 more frequent, intense, extreme...
Schools for Agroecological Life: Resilience of Rural Ecosystems in the Yaqui Valley
Fundación Ambiental del Valle del Yaqui, A.C.
Around the world, most food is produced by intensive agriculture. However, these practices cause multiple adverse environmental effects: greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, loss of biodiversity, landscape homogenization, erosion, etc.,...
Preserving Akwesasne Native Biodiversity for the Future
International Secretariat for Water (ISW)
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...
One Water: An Indigenous-led Process to Increase Water Resilience for First Nations in Ontario through Rain Water Harvesting
Isla Urbana
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 of the...