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  • REACT4EJ launches website for supporting grassroots environmental justice movements

    REACT4EJ launches website for supporting grassroots environmental justice movements

    The EPA Region 4 Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (TCTAC), known as REACT4EJ, has launched a website providing resources to environmental justice movements. EJ TCTACs are institutions and organizations that aim to support existing and new community projects through guidance and training on grant writing, project management, government engagement and more.  “This new Environmental Justice Technical Assistance website has resources…

  • IRIS attends the first N-EWN Partner Symposium

    IRIS attends the first N-EWN Partner Symposium

    This past week, the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems was thrilled to participate in the first Network for Engineering With Nature Partner Symposium, which served as an opportunity for the network’s partners to come together in person.  As a founding partner of the Network, IRIS has been part of N-EWN since 2020, when it joined with the U.S. Army Corps…

  • Bledsoe Selected to Write Chapter for the First National Nature Assessment

    Bledsoe Selected to Write Chapter for the First National Nature Assessment

    The U.S. Global Change Research Program is pleased to announce the selection of authors for the first-ever National Nature Assessment (NNA1). The diverse team that will number over 150 experts was selected by the 11 NNA1 chapter leads in consultation with federal leadership, based in part on a public call for author nominations. With the full author team in place,…