2024 Forum: May 14-16, 2024 – Saint Paul, Minnesota
PLENARY VIDEO RECORDING
PLENARY POEM
An original poem written by EcoAdapt’s Executive Director, Lara Hansen. Read at the 2024 event.
Bus Stop
While our elected officials
Have been driving planet Earth
Drunk on the campaign contributions
And fumes of fossil fuel dollars
Unconcerned about our destination
We ride on this lone conveyance
Having consulted the now faulty route map,
Paid our fair fare, and
Pulled the stop requested cord
To get off at 350th Street
But there is not response
No slowing toward the curb
Instead we speed up
Passing 400th
The windows blurring the apocalypse
Nearby Bernard tells whoever will listen
That the whole system perpetuates this disaster
While cousin Barbara yells
Stop the goddamn bus.
- Pew Advances a Comprehensive Approach to Limiting Climate Change Impacts
- CASC Participation at the 2024 National Adaptation Forum
- American Society of Adaptation Professionals 2024 National Adaptation Forum Recap
- Low-income residents buy into solar project at Minneapolis school – Jamez Staples and Yale Climate Connections
- Seattle summers are no longer reliably mild – Lara Whitley Binder and Yale Climate Connections
- How camping skills can help prepare you for weather disasters – Tim Jones and Yale Climate Connections
- San Diego neighborhood wins protections from new industrial development – Julie Corrales and Yale Climate Connections
- Eelgrass makes a comeback along the Virginia coast – Jill Bieri and Yale Climate Connections
- Tucson, Arizona, bets on buses – Fátima Luna and Yale Climate Connections
- An Alaskan community’s slow and costly move to higher ground – Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer and Yale Climate Connections
- Long-term whitebark pine restoration project aims to save the trees for future generations – Mike Durglo and Yale Climate Connections
- Why you need a go-bag – Nadia Wiggins and Yale Climate Connections
- Pilot project in New York City to offer quick cash grants after major floods – Helen Wiley and Yale Climate Connections
- New Jersey launches heat awareness campaign as extreme weather intensifies – Nathaly Agosto Filión and Yale Climate Connections
- The event that helps this Indigenous Pacific Islander feel less alone – Audrey-Rose Sevaaetasi and Yale Climate Connections
- California moves to protect indoor workers from deadly heat – Ali Frazzini and Yale Climate Connections
- High temperatures can cause train tracks to buckle and kink – Miles Owen and Yale Climate Connections
- Art meets science in sweeping U.S. climate report – Allyza Lustig and Yale Climate Connections
- Maryland rabbi calls on people to be good ancestors to future generations – Fred Scherlinder Dobb and Yale Climate Connections
- Government flood maps are often outdated – David Padgett and Yale Climate Connections
- Solar developer says renewable energy could transform Native communities – Robert Blake and Yale Climate Connections
- Climate change threatens the already endangered Karner blue butterfly – Christopher Hoving and Yale Climate Connections
- How NASA’s satellites can track wildfires – Michelle Hawkins and Yale Climate Connections
- How open spaces can save lives during wildfires – Deborah Glaser and Yale Climate Connections
- Free online tool kit can help small businesses prepare for climate change – Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen and Yale Climate Connections
- Fantasy role-playing games help young people engage with climate change – Marcy Brown and Yale Climate Connections
- Invasive insect could accelerate release of climate pollution from forests – Danielle Ignace and Yale Climate Connections
- Tree-planting project aims to identify climate-resilient trees – Emma Vanhdy and Yale Climate Connections
- As wildfires intensify, the taxpayer burden is growing – Autumn Hanna and Yale Climate Connections
- Virtual reality offers a glimpse of future climate impacts – Juliano Calil and Yale Climate Connections
- Canadian city invites neighbors to tackle climate change together – Sarah Danahy and Yale Climate Connections
- Climate change is making seasonal allergies even worse – Teddie Potter and Yale Climate Connections
- How a stream restoration project in Indiana is helping to reduce flooding – Bill Schleizer and Yale Climate Connections
- ‘King tide days’ help San Rafael, California, residents visualize sea level rise – Kate Hagemann and Yale Climate Connections
- Wetland project to help protect Palo Alto from flooding – Heidi Nutters and Yale Climate Connections
- Photos show how climate change is shaping the Louisiana coast – Virginia Hanusik and Yale Climate Connections
- Geoscientist David Padgett turns science into a tool for environmental justice – David Padgett and Yale Climate Connections
- A new financing model could speed up forest thinning projects – Anna Yip and Yale Climate Connections
2022 Forum: October 25-27, 2022 – Baltimore, Maryland
- Q&A: National Conference, Local Take-Homes – Knee Deep Times
- Six Takeaways from the National Adaptation Forum – Tacy Lambiase, Kim Lundgren Associates, Inc.
- Hintzen brokers CASC partnerships with Sea Grant – Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center
- SE CASC Participation in the 2022 National Adaptation Forum – Brittany Salmons, Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center
- New guide helps church communities respond to climate change – Avery Lamb and Yale Climate Connections
- New building code in Kaua’i accounts for projected sea level rise – Kaʻāina Hull and Yale Climate Connections
- Discarded oyster shells used to build new reefs in coastal Louisiana – Darrah Bach and Yale Climate Connections
- ‘Amphibious’ houses are designed to float during floods – Elizabeth English and Yale Climate Connections
- The warming climate is altering a key amphibian habitat – Jennifer Cartwright and Yale Climate Connections
- Older adults can be particularly vulnerable during weather disasters – Jason Rhoades and Yale Climate Connections
- Boston-area organizer helps communities get ready for more extreme heat waves – Marissa Zampino and Yale Climate Connections
- Researchers identify potential climate havens for vulnerable plants and animals – Toni Lynn Morelli and Yale Climate Connections
- North Carolina has suffered disastrous floods. Could farmers help? – Michelle Lovejoy and Yale Climate Connections
- Puerto Rico group helps protect abuse survivors during and after disasters – Tania Rosario-Méndez and Yale Climate Connections
- Youth community center in Richmond, California, becomes a ‘resilience hub’ – Shina Robinson and Yale Climate Connections
- How artists can raise awareness of climate risks and solutions – Claudia Zarazua and Yale Climate Connections
- Smartphone apps help rural Alaskans monitor effects of warming climate – Nyssa Russell and Yale Climate Connections
- How to clear wildfire smoke from indoor air with a DIY air filter – Addison Houston and Yale Climate Connections
- For many Puerto Ricans who moved after Hurricane Maria, a sense of loss remains – Rosalyn Negrón and Yale Climate Connections
- Researchers study how to help forests thrive in a warmer climate – Rowan Braybrook and Yale Climate Connections
- Zoning law helps protect South Carolina’s St. Helena Island from sea level rise – Queen Quet Goodwine and Yale Climate Connections
- ‘Heat Ready Schools’ project helps schools keep students safe during extreme heat – Melissa Guardaro and Yale Climate Connections
- People build artificial beaver dams in drought-stricken Montana – Pedro Marques and Yale Climate Connections
- Seattle-area agency distributes free air filtration kits to low-income residents – Addison Houston and Yale Climate Connections
- Tree thinning in dense forests could bolster Western snowpack, researchers suggest – Rowan Braybrook and Yale Climate Connections
- Extreme rainfall exacerbates pollution threat from Oklahoma Superfund site – Rebecca Jim and Yale Climate Connections
- Study finds disparities in how heat affects Phoenix residents – Melissa Guardaro and Yale Climate Connections
- Utility workers are seeing consequences of extreme weather firsthand – Katerina Gonzales and Yale Climate Connections
- Wildfire evacuation plans can help communities avoid logistical nightmares – Roy Thun and Yale Climate Connections
- How listening to women can boost disaster relief efforts – Jenifer De Jesús Soto and Yale Climate Connections
- Ventura County offers wildfire alerts in four languages often spoken by farmworkers – Eulalia Mendoza and Yale Climate Connections
- Voluntary buyouts could help reduce flooding in six Rhode Island neighborhoods – Sara Morrison and Yale Climate Connections
- Climate change takes toll on traditional Ojibwe wild rice harvest – Jerry Jondreau and Yale Climate Connections
- Free program helps Gulf Coast communities assess climate risk – Teal Harrison and Yale Climate Connections
- Mycelium Youth Network aims to empower young people on climate change – Lil Milagro Henriquez and Yale Climate Connections
- Board game helps communities prepare for extreme storms, flooding – Jeannette Dubinin and Yale Climate Connections
- Increasingly extreme heat could cost Phoenix $2 billion a year – Anna Bettis and Yale Climate Connections
- Warming winters put Indigenous moose hunting traditions in jeopardy – Tyler Kaspar and Yale Climate Connections
- Wetland restoration can help protect coastal communities from hurricanes – Gardner Goodall and Yale Climate Connections
- Website pinpoints communities that would benefit from new parks – Taj Schottland and Yale Climate Connections
- Climate change threatens Pueblo people’s traditional practices – Raymond Martinez and Yale Climate Connections
- What is a ‘blue carbon’ ecosystem? – Zachary Cannizzo and Yale Climate Connections
- Protecting sagebrush habitat can help wildlife and the climate – Tiffany Turner and Yale Climate Connections
- Annual climate summit empowers New York students – Jen Kretser and Yale Climate Connections
- Many coastal residents willing to relocate in face of rising sea levels – Anamaria Bukvic and Yale Climate Connections
- Free tool helps people identify tree species that will thrive in a warmer climate – Maria Janowiak and Yale Climate Connections
- How Cincinnati’s Climate Safe Neighborhoods Partnership promotes climate equity – Savannah Sullivan and Yale Climate Connections
- Rising seas could cause septic system failures in coastal South Carolina county – Amanda Guthrie and Yale Climate Connections
- Simple solutions could reduce heat inequities in Phoenix – Agustin Gastelum and Yale Climate Connections
- You can help track the impacts of climate change in your own yard – Alyssa Rosemartin and Yale Climate Connections
- Climate change could disrupt Maine’s coastal economy and culture – Gayle Bowness and Yale Climate Connections
- Free curriculum helps Gulf Coast teachers educate students about sea level rise – Ali Rellinger and Yale Climate Connections
- Trout-stocking programs could aid fish populations as the climate warms – Amy Teffer and Yale Climate Connections
- Special pavement coating helps Los Angeles neighborhood stay cool – Gina Palino and Yale Climate Connections
- Why Chelsea, Massachusetts, is installing a microgrid system – Sari Kayyali and Yale Climate Connections
- Student recommendations incorporated into $100+ million flood-prevention project – Mujde Erten-Unal and Yale Climate Connections
- Phoenix residents learn how to fight back against urban heat – Eva Ordóñez Olivas and Yale Climate Connections
- U.S. cities like Buffalo and Cincinnati could benefit from climate migration – Fern Hickey and Yale Climate Connections
- How faith-based groups are helping Arizonans survive brutal heat waves – Katie Sexton-Wood and Yale Climate Connections
- American Samoa’s coastal communities face worsened sea level rise – Kelley Anderson Tagarino and Yale Climate Connections
- Buyout programs aren’t serving everyone who needs help after a flood, planner warns – Osamu Kumasaka and Yale Climate Connections
- California groups identify possible locations for disaster ‘resilience centers’ – Yanelli Núñez and Yale Climate Connections
2019 Forum: April 23-25, 2019 – Madison, Wisconsin
- Dispatches from Adapters at 2019 National Adaptation Forum in Madison, WI – AmericaAdapts Podcast
- How to get Warren’s “big change” on climate – CNN Live Commentary
- Wisconsin DNR secretary: Climate change an environmental justice issue – The CAP Times
- Making Sense of Local Climate Projections – Earth & Space Science News
- Mayor Serge Dedina discusses Imperial Beach project with CCCIA on a National Stage – Climate Science Alliance
- Refuge notebook: A new way of thinking about climate adaptation – Peninsula Clarion
- Resilience Hubs: How Communities are Getting Started – Kim Lundgren Associates, Inc.
- Comment: This Land is Whose Land? – The Progressive
- Sea-level Rise: ‘My Nightmare has already happened’ – E&E News
- North Central CASC Director, Robin O’Malley, Awarded for Lifetime Achievement in Climate Adaptation – USGS
- Climate Adaptation: A Growing Priority for NRDC – Natural Resources Defense Council
- Health Solutions a Major Theme of National Adaptation Forum – Natural Resources Defense Council
- Georgetown Climate Center at the 2019 National Adaptation Forum – Georgetown Climate Center
- End-of-the-Year-Holiday Special – AmericaAdapts Podcast
2017 Forum: May 9-11, 2017 – St. Paul, Minnesota
- Is Climate Change Driving you to Dispair? Read this – Ensia
- Mississippi River cities: Feds should take climate change seriously – MPR News
- Celebrating Water in a time of Climate Change – MPR News
- National Adaptation Forum: Leaving me with more questions than answers- and that’s good – Climate Resilience Consulting
- CAW Members Attend 2017 National Adaptation Forum – NH Coastal Adaptation Workgroup
- National Adaptation Forum 2017 – Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative
- Adaptation Forum ends but challenges go on – Cambridge City’s Neighborhood-Based Resiliency
- Adaptation is Fundamentally about Hope – South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Congratulations Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate! – US Climate & Health Alliance
- Climate Generation project recognized at Adaptation Awards Ceremony – Climate Generation
- Experts tell senators coastal protection needs better data – E&E News
- Moving the needle on climate adaptation – Huron River Watershed Council
- APACC Members are Leading the Discussion: Diversity and Inclusion in Decision-Making about Urban Parks, Climate Change and Resilience – Anacostia Park and Community Collaborative
- Dr. Amber Pairis receives climate leadership award – Idyllwild Town Crier
- “I don’t want a levee.” Mayors Battle Another Round of Flooding, Push Corridor-Wide Solutions – Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative
2015 Forum: May 12-14, 2015 – St. Louis, Missouri
- 2nd National Adaptation Forum – SCB North America Program
- St. Louis Region Doing Little to Prepare for Climate Change – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Take Away Thoughts from the National Adaptation Forum – Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation
- Extreme weather events mean future will look different: U.S. National Adaptation Forum discusses extreme heat and resiliency – Pique News Magazine
- How Agriculture’s Resilience to Climate Change Benefits Us All – Environmental Defense Fund
- Nebraskans Have Lessons to Share – Norfolk Daily News
- Experts Cite Dire Warnings at Climate Change Conference in St. Louis – Belleville News-Democrat
- How Can Low-Income Communities Adapt to Climate Change? Community Forum Begins Dialogue – St. Louis Public Radio