Accelerating resiliency planning in communities across the Commonwealth
This guide walks you through the steps of measuring the local economic impact of expanding food hub activities, either from the establishment of a new hub or the expansion of an existing hub.
The Economics of Local Food Systems toolkit can be used to assess the economic impacts of a community’s local food system.
Virginia’s Farm to CACFP initiative connects participants to nutrition education, Virginia-grown foods, and gardening opportunities.
The Grassroots Guide to Federal Farm and Food Programs provides an in-depth look at federal policies and programs most important to sustainable agriculture.
National Farm to School Network is an information, advocacy and networking hub for communities working to bring local food sourcing and food and agriculture education into school systems and early care and education environments.
The YPCCC conducts scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior at global, national, and local scales.
The Coastal Resiliency Database compiles proposed projects, plans, studies, and funding sources that support flood resiliency within Virginia’s Coastal Zone.
Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Severe Weather Resources site offers valuable research-based information to support communities preparing and recovering from disasters.
The USGCRP Indicators Catalog includes observations or calculations that can be used to track physical, ecological, and social conditions and trends related to climate.
This guide walks you through the steps of measuring the local economic impact of expanding food hub activities, either from the establishment of a new hub or the expansion of an existing hub.
The Economics of Local Food Systems toolkit can be used to assess the economic impacts of a community’s local food system.
Virginia’s Farm to CACFP initiative connects participants to nutrition education, Virginia-grown foods, and gardening opportunities.
The Grassroots Guide to Federal Farm and Food Programs provides an in-depth look at federal policies and programs most important to sustainable agriculture.
National Farm to School Network is an information, advocacy and networking hub for communities working to bring local food sourcing and food and agriculture education into school systems and early care and education environments.
The YPCCC conducts scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior at global, national, and local scales.
The Coastal Resiliency Database compiles proposed projects, plans, studies, and funding sources that support flood resiliency within Virginia’s Coastal Zone.
Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Severe Weather Resources site offers valuable research-based information to support communities preparing and recovering from disasters.
The USGCRP Indicators Catalog includes observations or calculations that can be used to track physical, ecological, and social conditions and trends related to climate.
Speakers will lay out the current state of financing responses to climate change, discuss adaptation risks, and explore novel mechanisms to leverage financial systems to meet our climate goals.
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Join Virginia Forage and Grassland Council (VFGC) for an in-depth look making, buying, and using quality hay and baleage. Featured speakers include Chris Teutsch, Extension forage specialist with University of Kentucky, and Jessica Williamson,…
The Southeast Climate monthly webinar series is held on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 10:00 am ET. This series is hosted by the Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC), the National Integrated Drought Information…
This exclusive online event will bring together two leading experts a climate scientist, and a climate psychologist to explore the critical climate issues that will shape our future.
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Resilient Virginia has issued an RFP for a part-time Community Engagement Consultant for work in Lynchburg, Va.
US EPA maintains a website that focuses on essential information for coastal communities planning for the effects of climate change.
EcoAdapt conducted a survey with the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge to determine if and how people working to address displacement pressures are considering the effects of climate change. This survey is part of a broader project in collaboration with the Urban Displacement Project to better understand the intersections between climate change and displacement pressures.
Managed retreat is the coordinated process of voluntarily and equitably relocating people, structures, and infrastructure away from vulnerable coastal areas in response to episodic or chronic threats to facilitate the transition of individual people, communities, and ecosystems (both species and habitats) inland.
The Georgetown Climate Center maintains the Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit, which highlights best and emerging practice examples of how cities are addressing disproportionate socioeconomic risk to climate impacts and engaging overburdened communities.