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The Maria Auxiliadora Community: A Tale of Resilience in Informal Settlements

May 15, 2013

Maria Eugenia Veliz presents her poster during the poster session at the 2013 National Planning Conference in Chicago in April. Photo by Luis Terán. This past month, the APA international program brought together for the first time our four Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) project coordinators who are leading exciting and innovative […]


Building to Celebrate the Earth

Apr 29, 2013

This post was written by Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) Senior Fellow Nathaniel Corum, an architect and Head of Education Outreach at Architecture for Humanity. Part of his work connects university design programs to humanitarian design projects in order to create design teams that will produce exemplary and culturally-appropriate designs and feature resilient land use. I’m passionate […]


Forests for society, ecosystem and climate

Mar 03, 2013

This post is the second in a two-part series of blogs by the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA).  Read the first post on conserving our forests here. This post was written by Janaki Alavalapati, a senior fellow with the ECPA program  and Professor and Head of the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at College of Natural […]