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  • Months after devastating floods, Vermont renews efforts to aid climate-friendly rebuilds

    After extreme flooding damaged homes, the energy efficiency utility Efficiency Vermont offered emergency flood rebates to those impacted. Recovery teams helped people plan and find funding to repair and replace energy systems and appliances with more efficient models that will help them reach their decarbonization goals. In this circumstance, exceptions were made to include rebates for high-efficiency fossil fuel systems, too.

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  • Canoes Become a Lifeline for Farming Communities Cut Off by River Flooding in Nigeria's Sokoto

    Some farmers in Sokoto, Nigeria, are cut off from their crops when the Rima River floods during the wet season. So, they use canoes, known as Jirgi, to ferry people and their harvests across the water.

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  • How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years

    Medellín, Colombia, is combating the urban heat island effect by creating green corridors across the city. Over 2.5 million plants and trees were carefully selected to maximize impact and planted on buildings and along roads and waterways.

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  • How a Northwest tribe is escaping a rising ocean

    The Quinault Indian Nation is building new housing for its community about a mile from its current village on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The goal is to relocate the whole village to a place further above sea level to avoid flooding and sea-level rise.

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  • In Oregon, a youth program prepares vulnerable landowners for wildfires

    Oregon’s Community Wildfire Protection Corps pays young adults to remove overgrown brush to make fire-safe buffers around the homes of people who are older, disabled, or without financial means. At the same time, the youth who participate receive training for careers in wildland firefighting.

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  • Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

    Organizations in cities across the United States, including Philadelphia and Tucson, are simultaneously combatting urban heat and hunger by planting fruit trees and edible plants that provide shade and food that community members can harvest.

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  • A Ranch, Rewilded: The Transformation of California's Next State Park

    A floodplain restoration project in California’s Central Valley is preventing flooding, replenishing groundwater, and providing habitat for wildlife. Most of the restoration work involved rewilding the land after removing the berms that protected the area from flooding when it was an agricultural field.

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  • At Sahara's edge, old habits protect crops from new climate

    Farmers in Ndiob, Senegal, have returned to an ancient technique called zaï to combat drought, use less fertilizer, and increase their yields. Zaï involves drilling holes in the soil so rainwater can fill them and soak into the land instead of running off.

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  • The Cheap, Clever Promise of 'Water ATMs'

    The nonprofit Safe Water Network is training entrepreneurs in India to treat and filter water so they can run water ATMs. These businesses supply safe drinking water to communities that lack access to it for about half the price of any other option.

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  • This Louisiana town moved to escape climate-linked disaster

    In the face of increasing land loss and flooding due to coastal erosion and climate change, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe made the decision to relocate their community to higher ground. After winning a grant from the National Disaster Resilience Competition, the tribe worked closely with the Louisiana state government to figure out where and how the new community would be built.

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