Featured Featured October 10, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Resilience Planning and Public Policy Portage County Public Library 1001 Main Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USA, Stevens Point, WI Sustainable and Resilient Communities Series 2023-2024 How can resilience planning and public policy be designed for the greatest impact? Learn from a three-time Chief Resilience Officer on frameworks that can be applied to prioritize climate action and climate equity for any community. Explore lessons learned on the quest to increase preparedness, mitigation, adaptation and recovery... Free
Featured Featured February 6 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Designing for Sustainability and Resiliency: A Tale of Two Towns DUC Theater 1015 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI, United States Sustainable and Resilient Communities Series 2023-2024 Strategic design planning begins with understanding landscape patterns and dynamics as well as the livelihoods and sense of place for local communities. Geospatial Solutions Director Janet Silbernagel brings her expertise to a presentation that touches on the challenges of successful design for sustainability and resilience. In 2018, Janet’s local... Free
Featured Featured March 12 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Navigating Solar Energy Deployment in the Urban/Rural Divide Portage County Public Library 1001 Main Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USA, Stevens Point, WI Sustainable and Resilient Communities Series 2023-2024 Communities that are being asked to host the clean energy future are facing land use dilemmas, concerns agricultural economic base, and transformation of the rural landscape. Great Plains Institute's Brian Ross, vice president of renewable energy, will address environmental justice considerations and ways communities are navigating fairness in clean... Free