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		<title>A Comparative Study of Coastal Communities in Cuba and the United States (Connections 2016)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nine-page article, &#8220;A Comparative Study of Coastal Communities in Cuba and the United States&#8221; by&#160;Paloma Dallas, Penny Dendy, Terry Jack, Esther Velis, Virginia York, was&#160;published in&#160;Kettering Foundation&#8216;s 2016 edition of their annual newsletter,&#160;Connections&#160;&#8211; Kettering&#8217;s Multinational Research. In the seventh article of the newsletter, the authors talk about the collaboration between Kettering and the&#160;Antonio N&#250;&#241;ez Jim&#233;nez Foundation, on&#160;how each organization worked with communities in the US and Cuba, respectively, on addressing important issues that impact both areas. Below is an excerpt from the article and [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/12187">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Land of Plenty: How Should We Ensure that People Have the Food They Need? (NIFI Issue Guide)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 25-page issue guide, Land of Plenty: How Should We Ensure that People Have the Food They Need?,&#160;was published June 2017 from&#160;National Issues Forums Institute&#160;and&#160;Kettering Foundation..&#160;The issue guide offers participants three options to use during deliberation on how to address the inequities within the current food system and how to create a world where all people have the food they need to thrive.&#160;The issue guide is available to download for free on NIFI&#8217;s site&#160;here,&#160;where you can also find a post-forum questionnaire. From NIFI&#8230; All of [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11870">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Choices: What Should We Do About America’s Energy Future? (NIFI Issue Guide)</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11851</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 22:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue guide placemat, What Should We Do About America&#8217;s Energy Future?, was published on&#160;National Issues Forums Institute&#160;site in Summer 2017. This issue guide gives three options for participants to deliberate around the issue of how America&#8217;s energy consumption is sustainable. In addition to the issue guide placemat, there is also a post-forum questionnaire available to download on NIFI&#8217;s site here. From the guide&#8230; Meeting the United States&#8217; substantial appetite for energy raises a complex network of economic, environmental, and political issues. There are national-security [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11851">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Freshwater For The Future (IF Discussion Guide)</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11073</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 32-page discussion guide, Freshwater For The Future, was edited by Shannon Wheatley Hartman Ph.D. and Dennis Boyer, and published on Interactivity Foundation&#8217;s site in January 2016.&#160;This discussion guide explores multiple dimensions around&#160;water issues and the future of water needs. You can view the discussion guide in full on IF&#8217;s site and it can also be downloaded as a PDF for free here. From Interactivity Foundation&#8230; Water, water, not everywhere&#8230; and maybe soon not a drop fit to drink. Water issues present a convergence of [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/11073">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Choices: How Should We Meet the Challenges of a Warming Planet? (NIFI Issue Guide)</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10959</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 25-page issue guide, Climate Choices: How Should We Meet the Challenges of a Warming Planet?, was published April 2016&#160;from National Issues Forums Institute and Kettering Foundation, in collaboration with,&#160;North American Association for Environmental Education.&#160;Climate change is undeniable, this issue guide offers participants three options to use during deliberation on how to address our warming world.&#160;The issue guide is available to download for free on NIFI&#8217;s site here,&#160;where you can also find:&#160;the moderator&#8217;s guide, an options chart, and a post-forum questionnaire. From NIFI&#8230; The Environment [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/10959">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Retrofitting Homes for Energy Efficiency in Portland</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/9599</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This four-page case study (2014) from The Intersector Project&#160;outlines how Portland&#8217;s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability used cross-sector collaboration to address the need to retrofit homes for increased energy efficiency. From the Intersector Project An estimated 40 percent of carbon dioxide pollution in the United States comes from energy used in homes. In Portland, Oregon, the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability wanted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city while bettering the economic and social development of local residents and businesses. In 2009, stakeholders [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/9599">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing the Risks of Catastrophic Wildfires in Flagstaff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This four-page case study (2014) from The Intersector Project&#160;outlines how a&#160;cross-sector collaboration partnership&#160;created the Flagstaff Watershed Protection Project (FWPP) to reduce the risks of wildfires in Flagstaff, Arizona. From the Intersector Project Years of extensive wildland fire suppression in the Southwest has left many forests with unnaturally high levels of forest fuels, like dense undergrowth and thick litter fall. This has changed the natural fire ecology from low, fast-burning wildfires, to much larger crown fires that kill trees and undermine landscape integrity. In 2010, a [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/9597">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reforestation of Parks in Seattle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2015 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This four-page case study (2014) from The Intersector Project&#160;outlines how the City of Seattle used cross-sector collaboration to establish the Green Seattle Partnership to &#160;help reforest the city parks in Seattle, Washington. From the Intersector Project In 1994 the City of Seattle and the Parks Department began to notice something wrong with trees in city parks. Research found that Seattle&#8217;s 2,500 acres of forested city parks were at risk from invasive plants such as English Ivy, Himalayan blackberry and bindweed. In 2004, experts projected that [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/9595">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a time of growing complexity, a time that calls for new thinking, new conversations, new ways of working together and new forms of organization that support continuous learning and innovation. Finding new ways to work within and across organizations and communities is critical to address current needs for climate change, resource use, social innovation and social justice. Rethinking Complexity is a forum to explore these issues, examine best practices, and share critical research at the cutting edge of how organizations behave, systems [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/9247">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Human Impact on Climate Change: Opportunities &amp; Challenges (IF Discussion Guide)</title>
		<link>http://ncdd.org/rc/item/9323</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 02:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keiva Hummel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Impact on Climate Change: Opportunities &#38; Challenges,&#160;a discussion&#160;guidebook from the&#160;Interactivity Foundation (IF),&#160;serves as a discussion guide&#160;designed to use non-ideological language that helps participants to separate potential policy directions from partisan agendas and arguments over science, and to explore possibilities for how they or their communities might respond. The easy-to-use, 40-page guide&#160;frames the possibilities that discussion participants can consider in&#160;two categories. The first, &#8220;Setting the Stage,&#8221; focuses on&#160;immediately impact awareness&#160;and action, and the second, &#8220;Meeting the Continuing Climate Challenge,&#8221; is focused on the more complicated, [&#8230;] <a href="http://ncdd.org/rc/item/9323">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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