U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Amending Land Use Codes for Natural Infrastructure Planning. Learn how a Sea Grant agent is working with one community to audit and amend its existing land use codes and ordinances to be more inclusiv ...

Developing the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Hazard Mitigation Plan. The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community developed their hazard mitigation plan with guidance from a framework for integrating Indigenous ...

Promoting Ecotourism to Conserve a Watershed in Virginia. Realizing the Lower Chickahominy Watershed would one day be at risk of development for economic gain, the coastal planner with the Virginia Co ...

UVM Students Offer Real-World Climate Recommendations to Vermont Town. The town of Underhill, Vermont, is considering climate-change recommendations developed and presented by some intrepid University ...

Community-Led Resilience Program Leads to Shovel-Ready Projects. Learn how the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management is helping communities build their resilience to coastal flood hazards thro ...

How New Battery Capacity Helped California Avoid Another Blackout. New battery capacity in the form of battery energy storage (BES) units was a key difference-maker that contributed, along with demand ...

City of Fayetteville's Watershed Master Plan. In order to better assess the severity of city-wide floods and create flood mitigation solutions, Fayetteville, North Carolina's city officials embarked o ...

Resiliency Officer Helps Design An Environmental Impact Bond To Finance Community Resilience Projects. Hampton, Virginia's Resiliency Officer led the development of Virginia's first ever Environmental ...

Zoning Ordinance Overhauled To Increase Community Resilience To Flooding. The city of Norfolk, Virginia, is like many other coastal communities facing sea level rise. The city chose to take a bold ste ...

South Carolina's Lowcountry Prepares for Changing Global Conditions. The coastal "Lowcountry" region of South Carolina faces unique vulnerabilities to climate change. Researchers engaged with this soc ...