Digital Library

Bring up Mabari Byrd’s impressive work in Philadelphia’s communities and environmental organizations, and he will insist on spreading the credit around.

Two community raingarden projects and an article about my work area

This article proposes a framework for evaluating energy justice and examines some of the questions that state legislatures and ratemaking agencies will face when integrating energy justice considerations into regulation of electricity markets.

An inspiring project to involve a wide range of volunteers in studying, understanding, and protecting the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Collaborative systems thinking is an empowerment tool. It embodies authentic inclusiveness: when done right, it places problem-definition and solution-finding directly in the hands of members of affected communities.

In an effort to increase the participation of women, transgender and gender non-conforming workers in the construction trades, HELM Construction Solutions has created “Breaking Down Gender Bias: A Toolkit for Construction Business Owners”.

Breaking the Green Ceiling Report

The interactive workshop "The Power of Words in Your Work: Writing Your Land Trust’s Success Story" was presented at the 2012 PA Land Conservation Conference by Krista Gromalski and Sandy Long of Heron's Eye Communications.

A Theory of Change is an organization’s “theory”, or story, of how it will make change in the world. A theory explains the group’s beliefs about how change will unfold.

This paper examines whether the Compact Clause or Section 102(c) of the Clean Air Act present obstacles to multi-state cooperative strategies for compliance with the Clean Power Plan's regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants

​ OneNote is a versatile ‘digital notebook’ - a handy means to store and organize information for when we need it.

Food and Healthy, Vibrant Communities presented by Shane Bernardo

A series of videos in which I speak about my interests in food justice.

The reclamation of historic sites and the effort to build a regional trail network has become a large part of the renaissance of the Philadelphia region. In this webinar, the creation and development of Cynwyd Heritage Trail is used as a case study.

Boston's Green Roofs: The Benefits of Farming and Gardening Up in the Sky with ELP Senior Fellow, Casey Townsend.

Training Future Leaders with Tomorrow’s Technology shall train approximately 72 high school students in the fundamentals of leadership thereby starting the students on a path to emerge as community leaders.

The Personal Leadership Canvas is a tool designed to increase your leadership capacity. Caleb and his team believe that leadership is a practice accessible to all. The Canvas helps you develop a deep understanding of your effective leadership.

Nationwide, all types of organizations are implementing measures to further their own sustainability - yet without strong local government leadership with an eye to sustainability, the organizations will be limited in their success...

Financial institutions require the completion of environmental due diligence of a commercial real estate collateralized lending transaction for many reasons.

Beyond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Climate Change chronicles the likely psychological impacts of climate change, from stress, anxiety and depression, to loss of community identity, to increases in violence and aggression.

I was interviewed about subsistence fishing on the Anacostia River in Washington, DC - home watershed of the US Capitol. This documentary explores the startling fact that more than 17,000 people eat fish from the polluted Anacostia River annually.

A fact sheet that outlines the benefits of choosing locally grown foods...

To help ensure resource managers and conservationists will be able to protect and preserve cherished places and wildlife in an era of climate change, we identified climate change-related challenges, needs, and opportunities for conservation.

This is an extensive compilation of climate change effects and adaptation approaches specific to the marine and coastal ecosystems of the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NPLCC) geography.

This publication summarizes the 10 most essential concepts that dispells the false assumption than humans are in any way separate from nature. This article forms part of UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems under the Sustainable Education vo

Research on global systems suggests that coastal communities and regions are becoming increasingly vulnerable to sea level rise (SLR) and climate change.

ELP Webinar presented in January 2011 on project management.

Created by ELP SERN Senior Fellow Jeff Barrie, the Kilowatt Ours organization has delivered more than 24 one-off workshops with average energy savings approaching 10% sustained for months following the workshops

ZomBeads: Mardi Gras Made in New Orleans is a new green company incubated at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a nonprofit organization directed by ELP Senior Fellow Anne Rolfes.