Upcoming Events
The Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Potential of Solar
Tuesday, June 20, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
3rd Annual Planetary Health Guest Lectureship
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 11:00 a.m. to Noon
The 3rd Annual Planetary Health Guest Lectureship will be held Wednesday, April 26 at the Bentson Healthy Communities Innovation Center. The event will feature Kelsey Wirth as the guest speaker.
Adaptive Forest Management
Tuesday, April 18, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Join the MCAP team on Tuesday, April 18 at Noon for our Adaptation in Action monthly webinar where we'll learn about adaptive forest management, including findings from the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change experiment in north-central Minnesota, tree species responses to climate change, and insights on best practices in adaptive planting and prioritizing areas for reforestation.
MCAP News
We're headed to Aspen Ideas: Climate!
MCAP is facilitating a cohort of exceptional climate leaders from across Minnesota to attend the Aspen Ideas: Climate conference this month. These conferences tend to lack representation of the many forms of climate leadership that take place at the community level. We believe that we can achieve more by bringing more voices, experiences and expertise to the table.
Forbes: Climate Risk Is Real And Calculable, But Numbers Don’t Protect Homes
Forbes featured our study with the design firm HGA characterizing the climate projection data needs of Architecture and Engineering (A&E) professionals in the United States: "Many financially secure homeowners are willing to take on some risk for a great location, but subsequently need to plan for it by working with an architect or builder who uses design tactics to meet that risk tolerance."
Yale Climate Connections: Stories Recorded at MCRC
Climate Connections—a daily podcast and radio show heard on over 700 stations nationwide—recently began airing a series of conversations recorded at our Midwest Climate Resilience Conference in Duluth this fall. The interviews are on heat pumps, rain barrels and building engineering standards—areas where Minnesotans are leading the charge in implementing climate adaptation and resilience strategies. Climate Connections also featured a conversation with MCAP Director Heidi Roop about her book, The Climate Action Handbook.