The Civic and Community Engagement Institute at the University of San Francisco has been engaged in specific neighborhoods to help them identify and address community-defined issues during the difficult economic recession. Engaged Learning Zones are multi-year, place-based projects that focus university resources on a specific community in order to increase their leadership capacities.
Click here to learn about the Institute’s Engaged Learning Zones.
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) is a collaborative effort to help create more resilient communities and neighbourhoods in British Columbia, Canada. It is currently delivered and hosted by the non-profit Building Resilient Neighbourhoods Society.
Inspired by the Clare Street neighbourhood, this story follows the installation of 5 “little libraries” on boulevards in various neighbourhoods through Victoria, B.C. as a fitting memorial and lasting legacy…
This four-minute video lightly “dramatizes” a party where people get together and have fun while reducing energy usage and GHGs. Click here to watch the video.
Together, We Can Build the Future of Emergency Preparedness The Challenge British Columbians are vulnerable to earthquakes, wildfires, floods, tsunamis, changing climate and severe weather. Many of us are also…
The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty Climate change and escalating energy prices compel us to reinvent our economic life on a…
rethink urban is a collaborative consulting group and an urban ideas blog. We are interested in stimulating discussion of best practices for great cities and in helping implement change. We focus…
Resilience.org supports the building of community responses to the many inter-related crises of our time. Resilience.org provides a daily stream of news and articles on Energy, Economy, Environment, Food &…