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Climate Change: Uncovering Invisible Vulnerabilities

A Chain is Only as Strong as its Weakest Link Humans are adaptable. We have adjusted to some of the harshest conditions on earth and...

Innovation for Motivation: Green Industry Show & Conference Highlights

Resilient Rurals attended GISC2022 as tradeshow exhibitors and had a front-and-center view of the exciting developments in the industries...

Adaptation Resilience Training Funding Program Wraps Up for Resilient Rurals

Since September 2021, Resilient Rurals was a part of the Adaptation Resilience Training (ART) Program, a new program for recent grads of...

Bruderheim, AB's Climate Action Plan Receives Municipal Excellence Award

In 2021, Bruderheim’s Climate Resilience Action Plan was proud to be awarded Alberta's Minister’s Award for Municipal Excellence in the...

Resilient Rurals Feature: Prairie Climate Centre Short Film

Local adaption leaders share how collaboration, perseverance and dedicated climate adaptation funding will lead Prairie municipalities to...

Learning Resilience from Flooding in Lamont, AB

In recent years, the Town of Lamont has experienced two significant flooding events, which caused significant damage and left many...

CBC News and Radio Feature: Three Alberta towns band together to prepare for climate change

In February of 2020, Resilient Rurals Program Director, Jill Yanch, spoke with Adrienne Pan about the project's origins, ambitions, and...

What is resilience?

Small town resilience. What is it? Why does it matter? Climate change adaptation has become a major topic of discussion across the...

A holistic view

We're not just looking at climate—we're considering all angles Often when we approach climate change adaptation, we talk about climate....

Celebrating our small town nature

What are the characteristics of small towns that create the "small town lens"? Significant strength comes from the hard-working people of...

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