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UCSC Center for Coastal Climate Resilience: Elevating Indigenous Solutions
At the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, we’re committed to elevating local and Indigenous knowledge as essential to shaping coastal solutions. We’re honored to help convene and support conversations led by Indigenous leaders across the globe: Indigenous Climate Leaders Convening (2024-2025)We have been working with local leaders from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and bringing…
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Partner Takeover: UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience
Hello from the UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR)! We’re excited to join you here as part of this social media takeover with our partners at N-EWN. At CCCR, we’re building solutions to reduce coastal risks locally, CA-wide, nationally and internationally. We are helping communities build resilience and adapt to rising risks.…
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Duke’s Nature Activation Hub: Lowering Barriers to Investment in NbS
The Nature Activation Hub at Duke University is working with multiple partners to think about how to lower the barriers for private sector investment in nature-based solutions. Learn more here. As nature-based solutions gain popularity, there is concern that public funding won’t be enough to enable implementation at the pace and scale required to achieve…
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Duke University: Introducing the Nature Activation Hub
The Nature Activation Hub at Duke University engages in actionable research and purposeful partnerships to overcome barriers and identify opportunities that advance nature-based solutions. FIND OUT MORE at https://duke.is/naturehub Hosted by the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, the hub collaborates with a wide variety of partners, such as federal and state agencies, land…
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Duke RESTORE: Nature-Inspired Builds for Restoration
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it’s also a useful approach to ecosystem restoration. By observing how nature recovers from disturbance, scientists can develop ways to rebuild or replenish depleted habitats. That’s the aim of Duke RESTORE, part of the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment. Led by ecologist Brian Silliman,…
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Partner Takeover: Duke University
This week’s N-EWN partner takeover features Duke University! Duke has a deep institutional commitment to interdisciplinarity, a key feature of Engineering With Nature and nature-based solutions projects. In addition to training students to work on these complex projects via the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, the Duke Marine Lab, and Duke University Pratt…
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Biohabitats: Old St. Vrain Road Restoration
Members of the Old St. Vrain Road Reach Restoration design/build team led by Left Hand Excavating have been working in the St. Vrain Watershed on multiple projects over the past decade. Biohabitats drew on our experience working on the St. Vrain and Left Hand Creek Stream Management Plan and the Left Hand Canyon Watershed Restoration…
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Biohabitats: Nature-based Planning for the High Line Canal Corridor
Biohabitats is completing a 15-month long collaborative conservation effort for High Line Canal Conservancy with 15 jurisdictional Canal Collaborative partners—including Denver Water, and Mile High Flood District—to find common goals and stewardship practices to develop a Natural Resources Management Plan for 860 acres and 71 miles of the High Line Canal corridor. The Plan protects…
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Live from New York, it’s NYC Climate Week: NYC Mayor’s Office and Arcadis host Climate Resilience Plan Pop-Up
In town for NYC Climate Week? Check out this pop-up on the FiDi & Seaport Climate Resilience Plan, co-hosted by some of our partners at NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and Arcadis! The Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Plan aims to protect NYC from climate change while enhancing the waterfront, creating…
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Partner Takeover: Biohabitats
At Biohabitats, we provide nature-based solutions that help create a resilient world of abundant biodiversity, clean water, and community wellbeing, and we are honored to be a part of the Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN). N-EWN constantly brings us into conversation with its unique network of vested organizations creating a resilient future. Biohabitats often…