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Salazar Center announces Thriving Cities Challenge finalists, expanded funding support 09 Jun, 2021 The Thriving Cities Challenge was created to fund innovative nature-based solutions that improve the equity, health and resilience of urban communities in North America. Fifteen teams from across North America have been selected as finalists for the Thriving Cities Challenge, an incentive prize launched by Colorado State University’s Salazar Center for North American Conservation in Fall 2020. Up to five teams will be chosen as winners following a virtual pitch event in September 2021 as ...

Salazar Center seeks proposals to advance climate resilience, racial equity 18 Feb, 2021 Colorado State University’s Salazar Center for North American Conservation is currently accepting applications for its second-annual incentive prize competition: the Thriving Cities Challenge, the first of its kind to be offered by the center. “Our cities are facing the effects of climate change and confronting policies that often leave communities of color more vulnerable to the heat, rising seas and extreme weather climate change brings,” said Salazar Center Director Beth Conover. “But there...

Salazar Center report champions inclusive and equitable landscape conservation, provides lessons learned for practitioners 28 Jan, 2021 Water trickles over a dam on the Klamath River outside Hornbrook, California. Photo: Jeff Barnard / Associated Press, courtesy of Los Angeles Times. The Salazar Center for North American Conservation at Colorado State University and the Network for Landscape Conservation have released a new report exploring how values of diversity, equity and inclusion have strengthened landscape conservation projects across the United States. The report, funded by the S....