08.14.2010 Bridge the Gulf Youth Media Workshop Helps Gulf Coast Youth tell Their Stories
ISC's Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network organized a digital media workshop that helps young people tell their stories and share their challenges, particularly in the wake of the BP oil disaster.
07.28.2010 Multi-National Group of Young Community Leaders Visits ISC
A group of 26 young leaders from around the globe visited ISC as part of the International Visitor Leadership Program to learn about Vermont's experience in nonprofit management.
04.29.2010 Chinese Delegates Visit Mississippi Gulf Coast
ISc organized an exchange for eight Chinese delegates from Sichuan, who are visiting the Mississippi Gulf Coast to learn about rebuilding sustainably in the wake of disaster.
04.29.2010 Chinese visitors tour Gulfport
04.20.2010 For them, Earth Day was late in coming
Sustainable Communities Network member Derrick Evans, and his community of Turkey Creek, MS, have fought hard to preserve coastal wetlands and ensure that minority areas are recognized in environmental efforts.
04.05.2010 EHS Academy: Developing Strong Local and International Partnerships
Robert Harrison, CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative, explains why CGI sees ISC's Environment, Health, and Safety Academy as a model of social, environmental and economic sustainability on a meaningful scale.
03.29.2010 Voices from the Gulf Coast
ISC is teaming up with film maker Leah Mahan and The Bridge Project to help the Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network learn digital media skills and work with local media artists to produce videos and photo essays that can be shared broadly on the Web.
02.27.2010 Moss Point's rebirth is focus of talks
This front page feature in The Mississippi Press highlights the fourth meeting of ISC's Sustainable Communities Network in Moss Point.
02.27.2010 Power of the Story
Members of ISC's Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network learn how to record their history using digital technology.
01.03.2010 Where the Action is on Climate
This NY Times editorial discusses how real climate action is taking place at the city and state levels. ISC's Climate Leadership Academy is focused on helping cities achieve their climate goals.
12.15.2009 Not Waiting on Copenhagen
ISC's own Steve Nicholas discusses some innovative steps that cities around the country are taking to increase energy efficiency and reduce their carbon footprint.
12.02.2009 Pam Dashiell, Lower 9th Ward activist, dies at age 61
Pam Dashiell, a Sustainable Communities Network member and civic activist who deftly galvanized her Lower 9th Ward neighbors while pushing for environmentally friendly construction, died in her home on Tuesday.
11.15.2009 A Celebration of Wine & Swine
On November 12, under the sparkling lights of the greenhouse at Gardener's Supply, nearly 200 people gathered for "Wine & Swine," a wine tasting and auction to benefit ISC.
11.04.2009 Mayor's Mission to Makeover Moss Point
Moss Point Mayor and ISC partner Aneice Liddell has big plans for her small city on the Escatawpa River, a city under economic siege long before Hurricane Katrina.
10.23.2009 ISC Founder Madeleine Kunin Awarded 2009 Eleanor Roosevelt Medal for Public Service
The former Vermont Governor, U.S. Ambassador, and author of Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead discusses receiving the prestigious award for her commitment to empowering women, children, and communities.
08.24.2009 Recent ISC Board Member Aaron Williams Sworn in as Peace Corps Director
Longtime ISC board member brings many years of international experience to the position.
08.05.2009 Environmental Education Goes Global
Nancy Humphrey Case of the Christian Science Monitor on the longtime ISC partner, Shelburne Farms and our program in China.
07.14.2009 President Obama Nominates Recent ISC Board Member Aaron Williams to be 18th Peace Corps Director
06.25.2009 Reflections on China
Former governor Madeleine M. Kunin on Vermont Public Radio on how ISC is helping communities and businesses in China reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
06.24.2009 Green Jobs, Green Future
Van Jones, the White House Special Advisor, answers questions from the public on the President's unfolding vision for a clean energy economy.
06.03.2009 Green Boot Camp Puts Cities Through Their Paces
Reuters reporter Zaher Karp on the Green Boot Camp held at Harvard University May 31- June 2, 2009. The camp was put on by Living Cities, ISC and the Kennedy School's Ash Institute.
05.13.2009 U.S.-Funded Environmentally Friendly Training Program Launched in South China's Guangdong Province
05.11.2009 Who Will Be Left Behind By the Green Job Boom?
An article on Living Cities and their upcoming Green Boot Camp, which ISC is coordinating in Boston on May 31-June 2, 2009. The Camp will help cities across the country create jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through large scale building energy efficiency retrofit initiatives.
05.01.2009 China's Green Innovation
BusinessWeek recognizes 10 companies for outstanding efforts to transform China's environment—including ISC's partner, GE.
04.01.2009 The Good Guys
Amanda Robb of O Magazine profiles ISC partner Mayor Xavier Bishop, calling him one of the "new eco role models."
03.25.2009 Cities, Towns Work to Combat Climate Change
ISC's Steve Nicholas weighs in on how cities and towns in the United States can address climate change—and what ISC is doing to help—with Lea Winerman of Online NewsHour.
03.19.2009 Guangdong Will Take the Lead on Professional EHS Certification
A new Environment, Health, and Safety Academy in Guangdong, China will prepare factory managers to monitor and comply with EHS safety standards.
02.10.2009 New Gulf Coast Network Brings Together Struggling Communities
Reporter Phoebe Judge of Mississippi Public Broadcasting on the launch of the Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network.
02.06.2009 Turkey Creek Provides Conference Lesson
Reporter Steve Philips of WLOX-TV on the conference launching ISC's Sustainable Communities Network.
02.05.2009 Ice Cream Icon is the Scoop
Reporter Mary Perez on the launch of ISC's Sustainable Communities Network in Gulfport, Mississippi.
01.22.2009 US Ambassador Philip Reeker Speaks at Ceremony Honoring Media Coverage of Nonprofits
Ambassador Reeker speaks on the role media plays in protecting the free flow of ideas at an event honoring media coverage of nongovernmental organizations in Macedonia.
11.11.2008 A Renewed Vision for a Renewed City
Money isn't the only thing needed when a Gulf Coast town coping with the double disasters of a factory closing and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina sets out to transform itself into a world class river city.
08.29.2007 Lessons from Moss Point
ISC's Betty Weiss writes about our work on the Gulf Coast in a report compiled by Rutgers University and released by the Gulf Coast Collaborative on the Katrina's second anniversary.
08.15.2007 Leading from the Ground Up
ISC's president, George Hamilton, writes about reversing climate change in InterAction's development journal.
05.31.2007 ISC on Vermont Public Radio (.mp3 podcast)
ISC's Betty Weiss and Mayor Xavier Bishop of Moss Point, Mississippi, discuss progress made since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast.
04.09.2007 Seeding New Philanthropy
ISC's Barbara Felitti writes about corporate philanthropy in Ukraine in InterAction's development journal.
03.12.2007 Moss Point and Charlottesville Meet
Reporter Mary Perez covers a groundbreaking study tour that ISC sponsored for Gulf Coast leaders.
