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July 31, 2026
Lee Beckwith
Lowlander Director Kristina Peterson Wins ...

Please join us in congratulating Lowlander director Kristina Peterson on being selected as a 2026 Coastal Stewardship Honoree by the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana!

Lowlander Director Kristina Peterson Wins Coastal Stewardship Award
February 2, 2026
Lee Beckwith
Lowlander Center receives grant from the ...

The grant aims to rebuild elevated, storm-resilient homes and install disaster-preparedness green infrastructure to help communities affected by Hurricanes Ida and Francine.

Lowlander Center receives grant from the American Red Cross to Rebuild Resilient Homes in Pointe-au-Chien
January 15, 2025
Updates
Lee Beckwith
Lowlander Center Wins 2024 Pitch It! Innovation ...

We are excited to announce that the Lowlander Center placed first in the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge. The $50,000 grant we will receive will support our “Sky Power for the People” project, which brings emergency, portable solar panels to communities in need.

Lowlander Center Wins 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge for Portable Solar Project
August 23, 2024
Updates
Lee Beckwith
Emergency Portable Solar Panel Workshop A ...

For a hot week in August folks gathered in DeRidder, LA to learn and build portable solar units to be used both in blue skies and in disaster situations. Rev. Jerry Egbert and Boksoon Egbert hosted a crew of eager learners from across the coast. At the end of the week, one complete unit was taken away on the back of a pickup truck and delivered to Grand Bayou.

Emergency Portable Solar Panel Workshop A Success
September 23, 2023
Lee Beckwith
Pointe-au-Chien Featured on PBS

Theresa Dardar, Donald Dardar, and Kristina Peterson discuss land loss as the first part of the PBS docuseries “In Their Element: Earth, Air, Fire, Water.” Watch it here!

Pointe-au-Chien Featured on PBS
Mona Porter
October 22, 2019
Updates

Lowlander Members Speak on Panel at the State of the Planet Conference

Mona Porter
October 22, 2019
Updates
Lowlander Members Speak on Panel at the State of the Planet Conference

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.

Source: https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/07/17/managed-retreat-conference-rising-seas/

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Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
Updates

MIT to Host Indigenous Resettlement Workshop

Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
Updates
MIT to Host Indigenous Resettlement Workshop

The M.I.T. Department of Urban Studies and Planning will host a workshop in September for M.I.T. students focused on the role of justice and equity in planning climate change induced indigenous resettlement.

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Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
What We're Reading, Updates

Read Alessandra Jerolleman's new book: Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice

Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
What We're Reading, Updates
Read Alessandra Jerolleman's new book: Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice

Lowlander member Alessandra Jerolleman’s new book: Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice is now available. Read the synopsis below:

Source: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030047948#aboutBook

Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
Updates

Partnership with and Contributions to UUSC

Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
Updates
Partnership with and Contributions to UUSC

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.

Source: https://www.uusc.org/resources/research-publications/

Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
Updates

Collaboration Feature: Rising Voices

Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
Updates
Collaboration Feature: Rising Voices

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.

Source: https://risingvoices.ucar.edu/

Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
Updates

Rising Tides Awarded Kaplan Innovation Grant

Mona Porter
July 29, 2019
Updates
Rising Tides Awarded Kaplan Innovation Grant

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.

Source: http://historyabovewater.org/rising-tides-awarded-kaplan-innovation-grant/

Mona Porter
July 28, 2019
Updates

Update on Louisiana Universities Resilient Architecture Collaborative

Mona Porter
July 28, 2019
Updates
Update on Louisiana Universities Resilient Architecture Collaborative

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. 

Mona Porter
July 28, 2019
Updates

Connecting with the Texas A&M Reduction and Recovery Center

Mona Porter
July 28, 2019
Updates
Connecting with the Texas A&M Reduction and Recovery Center

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.

Mona Porter
October 19, 2018
Lowlander in the News

Shirley Laska on Delta Dispatches: Resilience in Coastal Communities

Mona Porter
October 19, 2018
Lowlander in the News
Shirley Laska on Delta Dispatches: Resilience in Coastal Communities

Lowlander Center’s Shirley Laska appeared on the Delta Dispatches radio program to speak about Participatory Action Research (PAR), Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and her forth-coming book.

Source: http://mississippiriverdelta.org/delta-dispatches-resilience-in-coastal-communities/

Mona Porter
October 16, 2018
Updates

Meetings and Community Building in Alaska

Mona Porter
October 16, 2018
Updates
Meetings and Community Building in Alaska

Alaskan meetings, October, 2018.

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