ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Stay tuned for Energy Communities AmeriCorps – public-private partnership to place more than 150 full-time AmeriCorps VISTA members in 9 federally designated energy communities (interagency working group on coal & power plant communities & economic revitalization) – learn more here Map below demonstrates communities where these VISTAs will serve
- House republicans warn about repealing climate funding: we need to be sharing more success stories!
GRANTS & FUNDING SOURCES
- AWARDED! DOE Climate Resilience Center Winners – Congratulations!
- $10 million for 10 projects – 3 year duration
- St. Louis University – heat islands
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology – site-specific drought and flood risks
- Midwest Climate Resilience Center in Clark County, Ohio – extreme rain and flooding impacts on drinking water
- Central Michigan University – local flood risks and climate modeling
- Read more here
- AWARDED! DOE (BIL funding) – Critical Mineral Innovation, Efficiency and Alternatives –
- Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Ames, Iowa) plans to integrate the conversion of copper waste generated through the recycling of permanent magnets with highly energy-efficient chemical processes for producing hydrogen – $988,860
- AWARDED! USDA PACE (the other one) – Powering Affordable Clean Energy
- Nebraska – $30 million to build 8 photovoltaic generation facilities totaling 18.72 megawatts. The facilities will produce enough electricity to power more than 1,700 residential homes throughout the State and will be located in Alliance, Gering, Sidney, Imperial, Ansley, Pender, Crete, and Stuart, Nebraska.
- OPEN: Community Change Grants – UPDATES
- Updated map to identify disadvantaged communities to reflect most recent data – EPA Disadvantaged Community Environmental and Climate Justice Program
- No oral component of the application for track 1
- Deadline for EPA Technical Assistance is today, August 16; EPN TA available after today.
- Environmental Protection Network intake form
- OPEN: Community Forest Corps and Urban Forestry Fellowship – Center for Regenerative Solutions
- Sustains tree canopy in climate-vulnerable communities by empowering and employing youth to simultaneously provide community-based tree care and protection while also gathering critical urban heat data essential to developing urban forestry-based cooling strategies
- Sub-awards will range from $100,000 to $600,000 over a 3-year period
- No cost-share or match
- Lean more here
- Municipalities, Tribes, and CBOs
- Deadline is August 30, 2024 5 pm ET
RESOURCES
- “Summer Indoor Thermal Conditions and Heat Adaptation in Chicago Residences” from Elevate: https://www.elevatenp.org/publications/summer-indoor-thermal-conditions/
Events
- ReImagine Appalachia – shuttered coal plants working group and monthly calls – Second Annual Summit on Oct. 16 12 – 3 pm over zoom
- National Association of State Energy Officials – Annual Meeting
- Coming up this fall Sept 29 – Oct 2 in NY, NY
- Learn more here
- Author Visit & Webinars hosted by Iowa Law Review, Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative
- Author of Wasteland will be on campus for an in-person only seminar
- Three related upcoming webinars
- Sept: History of justice and env issues – industrial ag
- Oct: NC Smithfield case
- Nov: Migrant Labor in Industrial Ag
- Indiana Climate Leadership Summit:
- Sept. 6 at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, IN – learn more here and register
- Climate Change and Small Cities Conference:
- October 24 – 26 in Winona, MN
- Learn more here
- Wisconsin: Sustain Dane 2024 Summit – November 8, 2024 in Madison
- Wisconsin 2024 Climate Fast Forward: November 14 – 15 in Rothschild, WI