🌊 Join Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC) and Save Oceanside Sands (SOS) for a special screening of the new BBC mini-documentary “Trying to Save One Beach at a Time” – highlighting the ongoing local effort to restore and preserve Oceanside’s beaches and build a sustainable coastal resilience movement. 🎟 RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gy_2GfJ5 🎥 The short film, part of BBC StoryWorks’ Transforming Cities series, explores Oceanside’s effort to address coastal erosion and beach degradation through a unique, community-driven Design Competition that resulted in the RE:BEACH Oceanside Pilot Project. While progress has been made, there’s still a long road ahead – and RCC, SOS, and the City of Oceanside are working hard to keep up the momentum. After the screening, hear from leaders in California’s new Coastal Accelerator cohort – the City of Alameda, the City of Fort Bragg, the City of Santa Barbara, the City of Santa Cruz, and the City of Oceanside – on the innovative projects they’re advancing to build a healthier coastal ecosystem across California. 📅 Date: Sunday, October 12, 2025 🕞 Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM (Registration starts at 3:30pm, please arrive early!) 📍 Location: Sunshine Brooks Theater, 217 N Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA
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We catalyze change in communities to solve the most pressing challenges of today and to build resilience for the future.
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Our work is anchored in knowledge gained in the development of the urban resilience movement, bringing together a diverse set of skills across government, civil society and the private sector. We believe that resilience thinking combined with courageous leadership and radical collaboration will make cities stronger, more equitable and ultimately more resilient for current and future generations. RCC will help cities identify areas of opportunities, address them through innovative design, and implement solutions. We will do this through three core program offerings: 1. Resilience Roadmaps to create enabling environments for investment and action through participatory resilience assessment and planning processes. 2. Project Incubators to design projects that maximize resilience impact, ensuring cities and communities have access to the technical, financial, and project preparation expertise required to move from concept to implementation. 3. Catalyst Labs to facilitate the next generation of solutions and create new communities of practice in the urban resilience field. Cities represent our greatest opportunity for impact, while also posing significant risks with exposure to future shocks and stresses. We hope through RCC we can work with many of you to help cities achieve the change they desperately need.
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🥂 Cheers! Thank you to everyone who joined us for an evening of connection and community building during Climate Week NYC. At a time when the broader context for climate and community work can feel uncertain and discouraging, gatherings like this remind us why we show up. Coming together with our partners, colleagues, and friends — and taking a moment to spotlight our Small Business Climate Resilience Program (SBCRP) — capped a week of RCC events across the city, all advancing resilience in communities at every scale. Here’s to solidarity, to building strength in challenging times, and to the people who make this work possible. 💡🌱 #ClimateWeekNYC #ResilientCities #UrbanResilience #ClimateAction #ClimateReadyFuture #CommunityResilience #ResilientCitiesCatalyst Pitkin Avenue Business Improvement District
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Honored to have been in the room with Parama and so many inspiring partners during Climate Week NYC 🌍💡 These global, cross-city exchanges remind us how much we can learn from one another — from Chennai to Sydney to Mexico City — and why collaboration is at the heart of building resilience. #climateweeknyc #communityresilience #urbanresilience
It has been an enriching experience to be part of the Climate Week discussions in NYC last week – thanks to Resilient Cities Catalyst for bringing together practitioners from Sydney, Chennai, Mexico City, Tampa, Phoenix and New York to share experiences on the work that we (Okapi Research and Advisory Pvt Ltd and Chennai Resilience Centre) are doing to build climate resilience for small businesses! From field trips to round table discussions and the opportunity to network and witness meaningful exchange in the climate week events, this was a wonderful learning experience. It has also been reassuring to see that the challenges faced by all resilience practitioners are quite similar irrespective of where they are – it is the collaborative and innovative approaches and out-of-the box thinking that keeps driving all of us to make the little changes that we hope will incrementally move us forward to a more sustainable and equitable future. #Resilience #collaborations #Climate week
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🌍 RCC’s work is global — and with our office in Athens, we’re proud to be part of Europe’s dialogue on resilience and democracy. 🇬🇷 At this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, presented in association with The New York Times, our Founding Principal Paul Nelson spoke in two key sessions: one exploring whether Europe’s largest smart city project can serve the many rather than the few, and another — co-hosted by RCC under the Climate Change Hub (https://cchub.eu/en) — on how cities can respond to the climate crisis while strengthening democratic processes. Both conversations, alongside mayors, city leaders, and international partners, underscored the essential role of inclusive, resilient cities in safeguarding democracy under climate pressures. Paul’s participation reflects RCC’s growing role in Europe and our commitment to advancing global conversations on resilience. ✨ #AthensDemocracyForum #SmartCities #UrbanResilience #ClimateReadyFuture #ResilientCitiesCatalyst #RCCEU
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🌏 RCC had an inspiring Climate Week NYC, bringing together partners from cities around the world to connect and share learnings. From convenings with our Small Business Climate Resilience Program (SBCRP) Partners in Chennai, Mexico City, New York City, Phoenix, Sydney, and Tampa, to an activation with the The New York Climate Exchange on Governors Island, to our Resilience Happy Hour, the week was filled with energy, ideas, and connection that move us closer to a climate-ready future. 🎥 We also premiered a new video highlighting our work in Brownsville, Brooklyn as part of the SBCRP — which is advancing projects along small business corridors in 12 neighborhoods globally. In partnership with the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, NYC Department of Small Business Services, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, New York City Department of Transportation, the Pitkin Avenue Business Improvement District, Street Lab, and Nina Cooke John, we’re working together on Pitkin Avenue to create a climate-ready commercial corridor — supporting local businesses, reimagining public spaces, and strengthening neighborhood capacity to address extreme heat and flooding. Watch the video below to see how community-driven climate action in Brownsville is shaping a vibrant, resilient corridor — and offering a model for neighborhoods across NYC and beyond. ✨ 🔗 Learn more about RCC's Resilience Building in Action here: https://lnkd.in/gfTPCYrb
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🌍✨ What a day at Climate Week with Resilient Cities Catalyst! The morning kicked off with a Living Lab tour of Lower Manhattan — seeing firsthand how resilience projects are reshaping public spaces, strengthening neighborhoods, and preparing the city for the future. In the afternoon, we convened Neighborhood Small Business Climate Resilience colleagues from around the globe at City Hall to share best practices and lessons learned. The conversations underscored the power of collaboration — across cities, agencies, and sectors — to accelerate delivery of climate solutions that don’t just plan for resilience, but actively build it now. NYC Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice City of Tampa Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC). Blacktown City Council. City of Phoenix Okapi Research and Advisory Pvt Ltd #ClimateWeekNYC #UrbanResilience #CityLeadership #Collaboration
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Join me in the audience and learn from Samuel Carter and other climate leaders tomorrow! #ClimateWeek #MCAP
I’m joining the Generalitat de Catalunya and many distinguished speakers tomorrow 9/24 at 11am at New York University to talk about how sub national governments and their partners can fund climate action! We will talk about the Mediterranean Climate Action Partnership (MCAP) and philanthropy and complicated relationships with national policy. Please join if you are in NYC for climate week!
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🌊 Breaking News: RCC joined the California Leadership Forum during Climate Week NYC, and we are building on the state’s commitments to climate action with the announcement of the California Coastal Accelerator and Cohort. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gG-Be4GW
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RCC joined the California Leadership Forum, hosted by The Climate Registry yesterday during #ClimateWeekNYC, and are building on the state’s commitments to climate action by announcing the California Coastal Accelerator and Cohort. Learn more about how RCC is advancing coastal resilience leadership and project implementation in communities across the state! https://lnkd.in/gG-Be4GW City of Alameda, Danielle Hutchings Mieler, P.E. City of Fort Bragg City of Fort Bragg, Sarah Million McCormick City of Oceanside, Jayme Timberlake Moldovan City of Santa Barbara, Melissa Hetrick City of Santa Cruz, Tiffany Wise-West Innovaciones Alumbra