On August 14, 2018, the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Resilience –in collaboration with 100 Resilient Cities and Second Nature –convened a forum on campus resilience at the Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center with representatives from several regional academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and public sector entities. This report summarizes the forum’s findings in the context of a broader effort to build strong and connected communities and provides a roadmap for future collaboration in advancing campus resilience across the region.

This Summary of Findings details the results of a Community Resilience Building workshop hosted by Tufts University in 2018. The workshop was organized by the Office of Sustainability and the Office of Emergency Management. This was an opportunity for stakeholders from the town and campus to come together and discuss climate resilience. It focused on the Tufts campus, but included city representatives from Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts.

The Community Resilience Building (CRB) workshop is a tool developed by The Nature Conservancy, which guides communities through the process of organizing and executing a community resilience building workshop. During the workshop participants define climate hazards, identify strengths and vulnerabilities, and develop and prioritize actions to build resilience.

The District of Columbia Mayor’s College and University Sustainability Pledge, signed in 2012, is a cross sector agreement between the District’s higher education sector and local government to advance sustainability. The District’s Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) urban sustainability staff, along with Sustainability Directors from partner universities, invited Second Nature to help organize a one-day workshop on climate resilience. The goal was to increase higher education’s understanding of District resilience planning initiatives, and provide a framework for colleges and universities to undertake their own resilience assessment and planning processes on campus.

The resilience assessment is meant to provide a baseline of current campus and community resilience activities, develop initial indicators of resilience through a multi-stakeholder process, and identify current vulnerabilities related to climate change. This guidance document outlines the key steps in completing a Campus-Community Resilience Assessment (Step 2 of the Climate and Resilience Commitments) and links to resources to assist with the process.

This document identifies how implementation and communication processes occur within the Climate Leadership Network, from The Climate Leadership Steering Committee, and from Second Nature as the non-profit facilitator. It also provides detailed information to help select a staff person for the Implementation Liaison (IL) role.

A statistics-driven look into why project location impacts the ability to hedge against rising electricity costs.

This technical brief explores the impact of a renewable project’s location relative to the location of a campus’s load in hedging against rising electricity costs.