Diigo Update 09/27/2021

• EJSCREEN: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool | US EPA

  EJSCREEN is an environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and demographic indicators. EJSCREEN users choose a geographic area; the tool then provides demographic and environmental information for that area. All of the EJSCREEN indicators are publicly-available data. EJSCREEN simply provides a way to display this information and includes a method for combining environmental and demographic indicators into EJ indexes. 

  Tags: environmental, justice, screening, mapping, tool, sustainability, community empowerment, technology

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Climate Change Indicators in the United States | US EPA

  EPA partners with more than 50 data contributors from various government agencies, academic institutions, and other organizations to compile a key set of indicators related to the causes and effects of climate change. These indicators also provide important input to the National Climate Assessment and other efforts to understand and track the science and impacts of climate change. Explore the indicators below. 

  Tags: climate, science, epa, climate change, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Home - The Weaving Lab

  Weaving is an emerging practice of leadership that creates thriving communities, continuously aligning, learning and collaborating together toward a shared purpose.

  Tags: weaving, network weaving, networking, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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Diigo Update 09/26/2021

• Local Resilience Planning | Pivot Projects

  By harnessing the expertise and diverse viewpoints of global participants, Pivot Projects seeks to help solve the world’s ecological challenges, including climate change. We aim to influence on two vectors: by making policymakers aware of new thinking and priorities; and by working with people in their communities to help them identify and address their most pressing sustainability issues. We take a holistic view of humanity’s complex relationships with the rest of nature—incorporating not just science but economics, politics, arts, culture, personal development, community, and beliefs.

  Tags: local, resilience, planning, pivot, collaboration

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• Los Angeles Regional Collaborative

  The Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC) is a network of local and regional decision-makers ensuring a sustainable Los Angeles County prepared for the impacts of climate change. It is one of seven regional collaboratives in California supporting climate change science, policy and planning efforts across sectors. LARC's climate mitigation and adaptation work is driven by cutting edge research on local climate impacts and information management systems. As LA’s sole climate collaborative, LARC’s network includes climate practitioners from city and county government, regional agencies, non-profits, businesses, and academia. 

  Tags: los angeles, regional, collaborative, climate change, climate change mitigation, sustainability

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

• About the School of System Change | Forum for the Future

  The School has been initiated and nurtured by Forum for the Future, with the support of multiple partners. We have the ambition to serve the emerging field of systems change, as a vehicle for connecting and amplifying spheres of learning and practice, and as a case study of an initiative grown explicitly as a system change endeavour. To do this we have used a methodological framework developed by Anna Birney, Director of the School and author of Cultivating System Change: A Practitioner’s Companion (2014). This framework suggests key capabilities for bringing about system change for a sustainable future can be divided into five core areas (read more here on our blog) which underpin our curriculum and our everyday practice.

  Tags: system, change, “System, Thinking”

  • - By Brian G. Dowling

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