NLC: Climate resilience lessons learned from 30+ smaller cities
City Climate Corner
English - November 23, 2021 09:30 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsGovernment Society & Culture Documentary climate justice cities clean energy climate change Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The National League of Cities (NLC) is the oldest and largest organization in the country representing local governments and has been ramping up their climate change and sustainability support. We interview Cooper Martin, Director of Sustainability & City Solutions, about tools they have and especially about lessons learned from grants and support given to 33 smaller cities over five years in their Leadership in Community Resilience program.
Resources
NLC Sustainability and Resilience webpageNLC City Solutions webpageLeadership in Community Resilience program and cohort infoNLC SolSmart resourcesNLC and Reloop - Beyond Recycling: Policy to Achieve Circular Waste ManagementSmart Surfaces CoalitionAmerica's All InRace to ZeroCOP26 explanatory twitter thread (mentioned in episode)