The Lowlander Center supports lowland communities and places, both inland and coastal, facing climate change and coastal erosion.
Our strategic focus on adaptation and sustainability is driven by decade-long partnerships with Indigenous communities,specifically the First Peoples’ Conservation Council (FPCC). All our work engages people, knowledge, and wisdom to co-create place-based adaptation practices with nature-based, locally-driven solutions.
Rebuilding the Boot is an educational campaign and rebuilding effort to educate and implement fortified building standards across coastal Louisiana. Our pilot project, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe Center withstood Hurricane Ida unscathed, a category 4 storm.
The Disaster Justice Network (DJN) is a volunteer network lending support to share critical information that is not easily accessed for the hurricane recovery processes; it provides critical information to make communities safer, keep families together, and ensure everyone has access to resilient recovery.
Sky Power for the People provides portable solar units and hands on training, starting with FPCC Tribal Centers, each Tribal Center will provide essential disaster response and preparedness services, during and after extreme storms.
Lowlander and the First Peoples’ Conservation Council (FPCC) are Lousiana Hub leads for the Rising Voices, Changing Coasts: The National Indigenous, and Earth Sciences Converegence Hub. Standing together, we create a cascade of intergenerational resilience.
