From Blight to Bioswales
News article: Upper 9th Ward residents call for new focus on blight Community leaders from A Community Voice organized a news conference on December 12th to demand that the city adopt a more comprehensive plan…
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World Bank’s GFDRR Understanding Risk Forum Planning Session for the Singapore Forum in 2020
By Natasha Udu-gama, Senior Specialist, Thriving Earth Exchange AGU’s Fall Meeting is a flurry of events for almost everyone. In the midst of this year’s flurry, I had the opportunity to attend the World…
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Achieving Change Together
By Julia Kumari Drapkin, CEO and founder, ISeeChange The word “empowerment” is a loaded bit of language. For years, I’ve used this word to describe the tools, platforms, and methods we’ve developed at ISeeChange…
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Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village Visits MSU to Hear Design Presentations
On November 27th, Maryum Rasool and Saadia Shah made a trip from Flint, Michigan to Michigan State University in East Lansing to hear presentations from Dr. Jon Burley’s Landscape Design class. Teams of students presented…
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Thriving Earth Exchange: Reflections of a Five-Year-Old
By Raj Pandya, Kevin Noone and Carol Finn As we end 2018, Thriving Earth Exchange has developed a way to connect Earth and space science to meaningful community impact and is moving from start-up to…
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2018 Thriving Earth Exchange Year in Review
Thriving Earth Exchange emerged from a bold vision to better leverage science to benefit humanity through a more direct partnership between scientists and communities. Five years and more than 80 projects in, the phase of…
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From Canada’s Chemical Valley to the “Heart of Flint”: Field Notes on Environmental Justice
By Sarah Wilkins, Project Manager As a Thriving Earth Project Manager, I am always thrilled to see the world out from behind my computer screen: meeting a project team in person, visiting the lands of…
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From Canada’s Chemical Valley to the “Heart of Flint”: Field Notes on Environmental Justice
By Sarah Wilkins, Project Manager As a Thriving Earth Project Manager, I am always thrilled to see the world out from behind my computer screen: meeting a project team in person, visiting the lands of…
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Ocean City Flooding introduces Coastal Keepers program
On November 2, 2018 Ocean City Flooding held a meeting at the public library to kick off their citizen science data collection with New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection Coastal Keepers Program. The partnership includes…
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Thriving Earth Exchange Announces 2018 Project Launch Workshop Communities
Thriving Earth Exchange is excited to announce our Project Launch Workshop communities for Fall Meeting 2018: Community Country Topic/Theme Arlington, VA USA Clean energy and renewables Goldsboro, NC USA Coal ash contamination to air and…
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A Dream for De Soto, MO
Here’s a video from Susan Sherrow Liley, community leader and organizer of Citizen’s Committee for Flood Relief. Flood Forum USA produced this video featuring Susan sharing her dreams and aspirations for her community.
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From Canada’s Chemical Valley to the “Heart of Flint”: Field Notes on Environmental Justice
By Sarah Wilkins, Project Manager As a Thriving Earth Project Manager, I am always thrilled to see the world out from behind my computer screen: meeting a project team in person, visiting the lands of…
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A Dream for Virginia Beach, VA
Here’s a video from Virginia Wasserberg, community leader and organizer of STOP the Flooding Now. Flood Forum USA produced this video featuring Virginia sharing her dreams and aspirations for her community.
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A Snapshot of Flooding in Virginia Beach, Virginia
On October 14th, STOP the Flooding Now held a rally for residents to come share their flooding stories with the public. Check out this promotional video that Virginia Wasserberg put together to promote the event:…
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A Dream for Richwood, Texas
Here’s a video from Kevin McKinney, community leader and organizer of Flood Victims of Richwood. He is working with Thriving Earth Exchange hydrologist Steve Emerman to better understand flood risk and what to do about…
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Claiborne Ave Alliance Leads a Corridor Tour
New Orleans, LA Community leaders from Claiborne Avenue Alliance led a walking tour of the Claiborne corridor on September 15th for engineers, planners, architects, public officials and scientists—many of whom were attending the Walk Bike…
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Cambridge, OH team deploys PISCES Samplers
In early September 2018, the Cambridge and Barnesville, OH teams got together recently to document the work that Chris Spiese (with the Cambridge project) is doing to put PISCES samplers in the waters of Southeast…
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Barnesville, OH Water Sampling – 11 October 2018
As part of the American Geophysical Union’s Barnesville, Ohio Thriving Earth Exchange project, water sampling was conducted on two of the most pristine waterways in the state, Captina Creek and Cat’s Run. Dr. John Stolz,…
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Can the Table Scraps of Caribbean Tourism Become an Environmental Boon?
This is part one of a two-part blog post about a new project in Jamaica aimed at simultaneously improving the island nation’s energy production, waste disposal, and agriculture. By Wale Adewunmi In Jamaica,…
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Haley Gannon – Translating a Pivotal Internship Experience into a Satisfying Career
By Haley Gannon This blog is part of Students in Community Science, a series of Thriving Earth Exchange articles featuring students who have had internship, educational or volunteer experiences in community science. When I…
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Shahan Haq – Adapting to Life after Adaptation Analytics: Reflection from an Intern
By Shahan Haq This blog is part of Students in Community Science, a series of Thriving Earth Exchange articles featuring students who have had internship, educational or volunteer experiences in community science During an…
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Babak J. Fard – Insights from an Interdisciplinary Community Science Experience
By Babak J. Fard This blog is part of Students in Community Science, a series of Thriving Earth Exchange articles featuring students who have had internship, educational or volunteer experiences in community science. The…
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“Getting Woke”: One Scientist’s Experience of Confronting His Own Implicit Biases
By Raj Pandya I try to do the right thing on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion, and I recently had an experience that reminded me how even those of us who are trying…
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Angela Dapremont – How Studying Mars is Relevant to Helping Earth’s Communities
By Angela Dapremont This blog is part of Students in Community Science, a series of Thriving Earth Exchange articles featuring students who have had internship, educational or volunteer experiences in community science I was…
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Caroline Stallard – Why Community Science Has Everything to Do With Med School
By Caroline Stallard This blog is part of Students in Community Science, a series of Thriving Earth Exchange articles featuring students who have had internship, educational or volunteer experiences in community science As a second…
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Ashley Collier-Oxandale – Reflections on Taking Part in Community-Based Science as a Graduate Student
By Ashley Collier-Oxandale This blog is part of Students in Community Science, a series of Thriving Earth Exchange articles featuring students who have had internship, educational or volunteer experiences in community science. Several years…
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Abhishek Rao – Why I’m Hooked on Community Science
By Abhishek Rao This blog is part of Students in Community Science, a series of Thriving Earth Exchange articles featuring students who have had internship, educational or volunteer experiences in community science. My involvement…
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Resilience Dialogues Mid-Year Review
By Melissa Goodwin Communities across the United States – and globally – are negatively affected by climate change. As these impacts grow in the future, communities must make plans and decisions to reduce their vulnerability….
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Climate Action Goes Local
Climate change is a big, global problem. But climate action—the concrete, specific steps necessary to mitigate and adapt to climate change—is happening very much in the local sphere. Take, for example, the Global Climate Action…
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What is a “Catalyst for Change”?
Here’s a guest post from our partner and Director of Flood Forum USA, Harriet Festing: You’ve probably heard the phrase before; it’s become a cliché. But we want to introduce you to some real-life catalysts…
