Mass ECAN May News
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It was so wonderful to see many of you at our conference last week! If you missed out, you can still catch up with the proceedings below. See also our new outreach toolkit and stay tuned for more events on watershed scale climate collaboration later this year!
See below for our newsletter that's specifically curated for our community of practice:
Feel free to share this newsletter with a colleague and invite them to join us!
Best,
Melissa Ocana
Climate Adaptation Coordinator, UMass Amherst
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Collaboration is essential for successful climate adaptation! We are excited to share the Watershed-Scale Climate Collaboration Toolkit to showcase stories from watershed-scale collaboratives in Massachusetts, and to inspire and support this work moving forward. Please share to spread the word about the importance of this work!
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Every month, we highlight someone in our community of practice so you can learn about a variety of adaptation work and "meet" a new colleague!
Bianca Bowman
Climate Justice Coordinator
GreenRoots
Bio: Bianca is passionate about building community knowledge, power, and leadership to combat the unequal distribution of the effects of climate change. At GreenRoots, she leads and supports projects that center resident leadership in advancing community climate resilience and adaptation. She also has a background in community-based citizen science research, environmental field work and forest fire management, and is originally from the Washington, DC area. Bianca loves taking trips to the mountains, eating heartily, reading fantasy and Greek mythology-based fiction, and attending music and arts events throughout Boston.
Climate Adaptation Project: Bianca leads GreenRoots' work to help the Chelsea and East Boston communities adapt to increasing extreme urban heat in the summers through the Cool Block and the C-HEAT research project. For the "Cool Block" project, Bianca helped transform an empty lot into a community-focused and built cooling open space in a high-heat concentrated neighborhood. This summer, residents will be paid stipends to water newly planted street trees, community ideas will be directly incorporated into long term park designs, and local youth are leading the project to build temporary shade structures. Data collection for the outcomes of this project is supported by years of collaborative heat research with the C-HEAT project. Contact Bianca or hear more about the project here.
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Funding Opportunity - Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness 2.0 Pilot Grant. MVP 2.0 grants allow communities to revisit their priorities from the original planning process with involvement of the wider community and includes new training and guidance. Apply here by 4:00pm on 5/19.
Funding Opportunity - Stormwater and Natural Infrastructure Grant, EPA Southeast New England Program (SNEP). Grants can address nature-based solutions, habitat restoration, and protection to restore ecosystem services degraded by poor stormwater and development practices. Attend Informational Webinar/Q&A on 6/1, 12:30pm - 2:00pm. Submit by 6/30.
Funding Opportunity - Coastal Habitat and Water Quality Grant, Office of Coastal Zone Management. Grants to assess and remediate stormwater pollution and support comprehensive habitat restoration planning and implementation, including capacity for green infrastructure. Q&A period until 5/26. Submit by 6/16.
Award - Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards for Natural Resources Nominate outstanding and exemplary leadership by individuals, agencies, Tribes, businesses, students, and youth to build resilience and advance adaptation of the country's vital natural resources in a changing climate. Submit nominations by 11:59pm on 5/31.
Event - Local Solutions Conference: Climate Migration. Join stakeholders in Keene, NH to create an upper Northeast region that can become a resilient, revitalized, socially just, and decarbonized climate refugia. Register here and apply for a travel grant here. 5/16 - 5/17.
Survey - Mass Audubon and Conservation Law Foundation NBS Survey. Funding for ecological restoration and nature-based solutions for climate resilience programs has increased, and this survey is exploring the needs and possibilities for increasing capacity and efficiencies for these projects. Complete by 5/31.
Job - Assistant Director of Clean Energy, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), Boston. Oversee the clean energy department and manage a variety of projects to advance building electrification and energy efficiency, climate resiliency, and green workforce development, to advance net zero. Position open until filled.
Job - Clean Energy and Climate Planner II, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), Boston. Build a climate-resilient, sustainable, and equitable region, and support MAPC’s federal funding technical assistance for municipalities and programs. Position open until filled.
Job - Senior Environmental Planner, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), Boston. Promote the protection and sustainable management of natural resources and advance climate resiliency and equity. Position open until filled.
Job - Climate Outreach Ambassador, City of Salem, part-time. The City of Salem’s Sustainability and Resiliency Department seeks a person to assist with outreach and engagement coordination for our MA Coastal Zone Management (CZM) grant-funded project, Resilient Together: The Point/El Punto. Position open until filled.
Job - Sustainability and Resilience Manager, City of Salem, full-time. Oversee the implementation of Resilient Together, Salem’s climate and resiliency plan with the City of Beverly and create, manage, and support sustainability, clean energy, and resiliency projects and policies. Position open until filled.
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