The Lowlander Center has worked with the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe and other partners in support of the creation of a Tool Kit for communities undergoing environmental and developmental pressures. The final product is Preserving our Place: A Community Field Guide to Engagement, Resilience, and Resettlement:

Lowlander Center members spoke on a panel at the State of the Planet Conference hosted by Columbia University School of Law. Read about the panel and the response on the Columbia University Earth Institute blog.

Through the Lowlander Center’s partnership with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, the Lowlander Center and its members have attended several gatherings and contributed to UUSC publications.

Many of the people from the coastal area, the Tribes we collaborate with and the Lowlander Center members have been participants, supporters and leaders within the Rising Voices community.

Victoria, partner/collaborator with the Lowlander Center on the Climigration Dialogues and the Coastal- Inland dialogues, is awarded the Kaplan Innovation Grant for the Rising Tides innitiative.

Lowlander’s collaboration with the architecture, landscape and planning departments at all Louisiana colleges around the state who have such programs  is entering its third year. 

While Lowlander members were attending the 44th annual meeting of the Natural Hazards Workshop sponsored by the Univ. of Colorado’s Natural Hazards Center, recontact was made with the faculty and staff of the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center and their community collaborators.