Community members in South Chattanooga, South Pittsburg and Spring City, Tennessee, and Dalton, Georgia, are participating in a program to help underserved communities find nature-based solutions to the increasing effects of climate change and other environmental challenges.
The Resilient Communities pilot program is an initiative of Thrive Regional Partnership and the Open Space Institute.
“We protect land that supports the things we can’t live without, like clean water, climate protection and healthy communities,” Joel Houser, Open Space Institute’s Chattanooga-based Southeast field coordinator, said by email. “Building on more than a decade of work in the Chattanooga region, the Resilient Communities program helps OSI achieve its mission by ensuring that land conservation and other natural climate solutions are deployed in strategic ways that most benefit the communities in which we work.”