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October 2012
The Community Resilience Toolkit 2.0 is a collection of online tools to help users understand local impacts of the climate and energy crisis in their region and what they can do about them. Created by Rooted in Resilience, the tools are designed for individuals, community and nonprofit groups, classrooms, businesses, and municipal planners. The toolkit is comprised of four different documents. Each of these outline activities, and step-by-step instructions.
Author or Affiliated User: Kirsten Schwind
Resource Category: Education and Outreach
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October 2012
The Federal Highway Administration’s INVEST Tool (Tool) provides a collection of voluntary best practices (“criteria”) and associated point values to help transportation agencies and practitioners evaluate and improve the sustainability and climate resilience of their projects and programs. The Tool allows transportation agencies to evaluate the sustainability of their agency practices and projects across the entire transportation lifecycle, by self-assigning points based on how well they have met requirements set out for each particular criterion.
Resource Category: Planning
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October 1, 2012
The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) program allocates federal funding for infrastructure projects that reduce congestion and improve air quality in areas that (currently or formerly) do not meet certain national air quality standards. CMAQ funds may be used to establish new or expanded transportation projects or programs that reduce emissions, including capital investments in transportation infrastructure, congestion relief efforts, and diesel engine retrofits. CMAQ is jointly administered by FHWA and the Federal Transit Administration.
Resource Category: Funding
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Fall 2012
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) restored roadside slopes along approximately 9 miles of I-696 between I-75 and I-94 using alternative plants that are heat and drought resistant and will help stabilize the slopes to prevent erosion. The slope restoration project is part of an effort to reduce stormwater runoff from roadways and thereby protect the quality of Michigan waterways. The 55,000 plants, shrubs, and trees selected create a variable-depth root structure to help stabilize the steep slopes and reduce runoff volume and velocity, particularly during intense rain events that are projected to increase in intensity and variability with climate change.
Author or Affiliated User: Michigan Department of Transportation
Resource Category: Solutions
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October 2012
The Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) 2012 Water Supply and Infrastructure Master Plan is the water district’s strategy for providing a reliable supply of water for Santa Clara County, California. The Plan identifies the District strategy to continue investments to meet the county’s future water supply needs through at least 2035. The Plan discusses managing for climate change impacts with a focus on drought, and calls for further climate adaptation planning by the District.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Tracy Hemmeter, Erin Baker
Resource Category: Planning
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September 30, 2012
In 2012, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 535 for the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) directing that, in addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a quarter of the proceeds from the GGRF must go to projects that provide a benefit to disadvantaged communities. Specifically, SB 535 requires that at least 25% of California’s GGRF go to projects that benefit disadvantaged communities, with at least 10% going to projects located within these communities.
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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September 27, 2012
The California State Coastal Conservancy, established in 1976, is a state agency that uses entrepreneurial techniques to purchase, protect, restore, and enhance coastal resources, and to provide access to the shore- working in partnership with local governments, other public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private landowners.
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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September 27, 2012
Assembly Bill 296, the “Cool Pavements Research and Implementation Act,” was approved by California Governor Jerry Brown on September 27, 2012. AB 296 calls upon the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to develop a standard specification for sustainable or "cool" pavements that can be used to mitigate urban heat islands.
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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September 25, 2012
The report was developed by Columbus Water Works, under an assistance agreement awarded by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of their Columbus Biosolids Flow-Through Thermophilic Treatment National Demonstration Project. The report examines common combined heat and power (CHP) technologies for converting anaerobic digester gas to electrical power and produce heat. The document includes technical and cost information to assist users in considering using more efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective wastewater treatment and in-plant wet weather management technologies.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Jason R. Wiser, James W. Schettler, John L. Willis
Resource Category: Solutions
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September 24, 2012
In September 2012, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) issued a memorandum clarifying when transportation agencies may use federal aid highway dollars to help adapt transportation infrastructure to extreme weather and a changing climate under the Federal-aid and Federal Lands programs. The memo provides some examples of eligible uses of the funds which consider the potential impacts of climate change and extreme weather events and apply adaptation strategies. No new funding is actually being added to address adaptation needs.
Resource Category: Funding
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