At the University of California, Irvine Office of Sustainability, we are working on several community resilience projects that are intended to foster people-centered and inclusive solutions to our climate challenges. These projects are driven by students, faculty, staff, and community collaborators who come together for meaningful exchange, education, research, and action for social transformation. We are developing a shared understanding that the problems of climate change, racism and all social injustice, economic inequality, and our challenged democracy are connected, and so are the solutions. Current projects include:

A community resilience co-lab on campus;

A project on regional resilience in Orange County;

A resource center for students;

A project on climate refugees’ stories; and

Multiple training, design, and facilitation services that build skills for transformation.

UCI Community Resilience Projects take place within the ancestral homelands of the Acjachemen and Tongva peoples.

To learn more, visit our website: communityresilience.uci.edu/