Resilience
CECE Explores Community Resilience at Climate Week NYC’s House of Scientista
On Thursday September 25th, CECE co-sponsored the House of Scientista event at Climate Week NYC. The event, hosted by Scientista, discussed the future of food, philanthropy, and communications during climate and political change. As people arrived at the event, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, elicited insight from four leaders in community resilience via red carpet interviews. […]
Final Student Reports Complete Inaugural DataCorps Fellowship
The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project wrapped up its first summer of the DataCorps Fellowship Program. At the beginning of the summer, the DataCorps fellows identified individual topics they would like to research. Each fellow then designed one to two questions on their topics to be included in the project’s service corps member survey. […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 3: Workforce Development and the 4Rs in California and Vermont
How are service corps programs supporting communities as they build resilience, respond to and recover from disaster, and work to reduce their emissions? This paper provides insights into who is working in such service corps programs, what are their motivations for serving, and how they hope to contribute to creating more resilient communities. The study […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 2: Mobilizing Young People to Help Communities Recover from Disaster–A [...]
How are service corps programs supporting communities as they respond to and recover from disaster? This paper provides insights into who is working in such programs, what are their motivations for serving, and how do they hope to contribute to creating more resilient communities post-disaster. The study integrates data collected from members of three different […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Wraps Up Site Visits in Los Angeles with the DataCorps Fellows
Author: Kaitlin Dellaposta The city of Los Angeles in southern California is well known for its glamour and beautiful scenery, but also for its dangerous wildfires. The Workforce Development & the 4Rs research team along with the DataCorps Graduate Fellows visited the third and final site of the summer in the city of Los Angeles. Here, […]
CECE Post Doc Shares Insights on Upcoming Hurricane Risks to Latino Communities
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was interviewed by journalist Johani Ponce for a series of Spanish-language news outlets covering the 2025 hurricane season and its impact on Latino communities across the U.S. In these interviews, Dr. González explained how federal funding cuts, lack of language access, rising living costs, and […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Continue Site Visits in Utah with the DataCorps Fellows
Author: Cici Akuley Nestled in the Mountain West region of the United States, rural Utah is known for its breathtaking mountainous landscapes. Nevertheless, residents must also contend with a wide range of natural disasters that include droughts, floods, and wildfires. The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project research team, along with our DataCorps Fellows, visited Richfield, […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Kicks Off Summer 2025 Site Visits with DataCorps Fellows
Author: Michael Culbert The New Orleans area is racked with a variety of environmental challenges. Much of the area is below sea level, its position on the Gulf Coast is prone to intense hurricanes, and the combination of high humidity and high temperatures leads to substantial heat-related threats. The CECE research team kicked off our […]
Cosequences of Environmental Rollbacks Will Have a Wide Range of Impacts
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was interviewed by La Opinión, Los Angeles’ leading Spanish-language news outlet, to discuss the consequences of recent environmental policy rollbacks under the current administration. The conversation highlighted how weakened protections exacerbate environmental injustices in Latino communities, while also threatening national public health infrastructure and economic […]
CECE Research Team Kicks-off Climate Corps Pilot with Visits to Vermont and California
This fall, the research team working on the Addressing Climate Change Through Our Nation’s Service Corps Project visited three Climate Corps sites as part of a pilot to study the ways their programs are connecting climate-interested young people and embedding in communities. At each site, Principal Investigator Dana R. Fisher presented a curriculum on the […]
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, gives a TED Talk
In October 2024, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, gave a TED talk on how to be an “Apocalytic Optimist”, which presents her findings about what it will really take to get us to the other side of the climate crisis based on her latest book, Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Check it out […]
American University Experts Weigh in on COP29
On 11 November, the 29th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (the UNFCCC’s COP-29) begins in Baku, Azerbaijan. This round of negotiations is the last one before countries are expected to submit their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement by early 2025. Since many countries are still off […]