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KLA Perspectives
No Place Is Immune: Essential Strategies for Building Resilience
How to Put Collaboration and Core Values at the Center of Local Climate Action for Staying Power
New "Talking Action" Video: Echoing Climate Week's Call for Urgent Action
Insights from our Climate Analysis Intern: Social Vulnerability and Intersectionality
Insights from our Climate Storytelling Intern: How to Think About the End User
Accessibility Matters for Digital Sustainability Resources
Welcoming the 2024 KLA Summer Internship Cohort
Three Climate Action Plans to Watch in 2024
Prioritizing Implementation for Urgent Climate Action
Making Earth Month (Actually) Count for Sustainability Goals
How I Utilized Home Energy Efficiency Upgrades – as a Renter.
Breaking the Ice: How Storytelling Bridges the Climate Conversation Gap
Translating Trust into Climate Action
Power of Preparedness: Collaborating to Address Climate Vulnerability
Cambridge Leads Building Decarbonization with BlocPower Partnership
Choosing Climate Metrics that Matter
How Can Climate Communication Drive Behavior Change?
Regional Climate Action Planning: Webinar, Resources, & Expert Advice
Welcoming the 2023 KLA Summer Internship Cohort
Clark County NV, Leads The Way: Top 5 Tips to Create a Legacy of Leadership
Strengthening the Story: 5 Tips for Compelling Climate Communications
Beyond a Buzzword: Why Equity is a KLA Core Value
New Podcast Episode: The Subtle and Undervalued Art of Meeting Facilitation
New Year, New Beginning: Make a Plan for Consistent Climate Content
Greening Up for 2023: KLA's New Years Resolutions
Thanks to our 2022 Clients, Partners + Fans
Consistent, Predictable, Accessible Data: Foundation of Climate Action
Press Play on the Power of Video for Climate Action Engagement
Six Takeaways from the National Adaptation Forum
Where, How and Why Equity is at the Core of Climate Resilience Planning
Columbia, MO, Aims to Beat the Heat with Community Mapping
Clark County, Nevada's Winning Hand for an Actionable Plan
Devens, MA, Cracks the Waste Nut with a Reuse Hub
Climate Change: What Should Individuals and Local Governments Do Together?
New Bedford's Strategy for Resilient, Equitable Green Infrastructure
New Podcast: John Bolduc's Reflections on a Storied Local Climate Action Career
It's Always the Right Time to Start Using an Editorial Calendar
APA #NPC22 Sessions on Climate Action + Editorial Calendars
Encinitas Rides Building Electrification Wave as it Implements Climate Action Plan
How I Kept My Jeep Wrangler While Fighting Climate Change
We're San Diego Bound for APA's National Planning Conference - See You There?
5 Ways to Tap Into Your Community's Earth Day Momentum
Strong women: May we know them, be them, raise them and WORK WITH them
Heat Pump Coaches Get Residents -- and Climate Goals -- to Yes
How an Employee Climate Training Program Can Boost Engagement and Action
New Year, New Climate Action Promises, New Resources to Deliver
Plan Design: 15 Tips to Make Your Climate Action Plan Pop
Electric Vehicles for Local Governments: Tipsheet, Resources + Webinar Recording
COP26, Implementation Blueprints and Meeting Climate Goals
Climate Solutions Webinar December 8: Electric Vehicles
For Climate Action Plans, Think Outside the PDF
This Framework Can Institutionalize Your Climate + Sustainability Goals
22 Standard Metrics That Drive Climate Action
Is Data at the Center of Your Climate Action Plan? Here's Why It Should Be.
Combine In-Person + Virtual Engagement Strategies: Tools + Tips for the New Normal
Circular Economy for Local Governments: Tipsheet, Resources + Webinar Recording
KLA Awarded APA Leadership in Sustainability Award of Excellence
Climate Solutions Webinar June 22: Circular Economy
Is Anyone Paying Attention to Your Presentation?
Net Zero Buildings: 4 Things for Local Governments to Consider
Our Team's Green Sparks
You Have to Talk About Climate Change for People to Act: Here's Why and How
Green Your Mind with these Podcasts
What shade of green are you?
New Climate Solutions Webinar Series: Net Zero Buildings
Relationships as Capital: New Podcast with Imhotep Adisa of The Kheprw Institute on Climate Action, BLM + More
4 Ways Local Governments Can Use Video in Planning Processes
Branding Basics: Do's, Don'ts, Pro Tips
Yes, Your Climate Action Plan Needs a Brand.
A Bald Eagle, a Salamander and Hope for 2021 and Beyond
How to Get Consultants to Deliver Equitable Engagement, Starting with your RFP
2020 On The Bright Side: Our Client Videos
Podcast: Success with "Reduce and Reuse" in Devens
Tools to Leverage for Online Earth Day + Community Engagement
Community Engagement in an Age of Social Distancing
Karen Kao Joins KLA as Project Manager
Welcome Kari Hewitt to the KLA Team
Denver's Chief Storyteller on the Power of Stories to Engage Your Community
Massachusetts' MVP Program: New Funding Will Keep Driving Local Climate + Resilience Action
New Resource! 4 Steps to Add Street Teams to Your Equity + Community Engagement Efforts
Charlottesville's Youth Opportunity Coordinator on Reaching Young African American Men
Portland + South Portland: Two Cities. One Climate Action Plan (New Podcast!)
It's Earth Overshoot Day. Time to #MoveTheDate
KLA's Angela Cleveland on her new Tiny House
Welcome Mike Steinhoff to the KLA Team!
Equitable Engagement: Takeaways from Our Webinar
Box City: What Our Kids Are Learning - And Can Teach Us
Free Webinar June 20 on Equitable Engagement
Resilience Hubs: How Communities are Getting Started
Our APA #NPC19 Top 10
Be More Strategic + Efficient with our Social Media and Communications Planning Calendar
APA's #NPC19 - Where (and Why!) to Find Us
GHG Inventories: Their Evolution + Purpose (New Podcast!)
Tap the Power of Video
Take our 1 Question Poll to Ensure our Trainings + Resources Match your Needs
Welcome Angela Cleveland to the KLA Team!
Write Winning Blog Posts
Website Content that Works
Congrats to our Award-Winning, Grant-Scoring Clients!
What Was Popular in 2018: Our Top Podcasts + Blog Posts
Your Mission this Holiday Season: Discuss Climate Change, No Matter How Hard
Tis the Season...to Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Preemption: How One Word Can Stop Progress in Local Communities
6 Ways We Help You Meet Climate + Sustainability Goals
New Podcast: What a Resilience Hub Can Do for Your Community Before, During + After Disasters
How Indianapolis Used Animals, Bikes, Yoga and a Passport to Engage Kids in Sustainability Planning
Beyond the Usual Suspects: 4 Public Engagement Strategies from Thrive Indianapolis
How a Game, Surveys + Virtual Reality Can Support Your Resilience + Preparedness Outreach
Meet the KLA Team
"The Latest": Monthly KLA Email
How We Can Use this Heat Wave to Get Ready for the Next Ones
Recycling: Perspectives from Austin (New Podcast)
The State of Climate Adaptation: Guest Post + Podcast with Joyce Coffee
Participatory Budgeting: How to Put the People in Public Works (APWA)
What We Heard at APA's NPC 2018
Podcast with the Sunlight Foundation’s Open Cities Storyteller: Putting Open Data to Work for your Community
Making a Plan for the 2018 National Planning Conference
Kick Start Branding for Your Next City Initiative with These 20 Questions
Celebrating KLA's DBE Certification
New Podcast: The Power of Participatory Budgeting
Download our New Storytelling Guidebook
Five Things to Consider for Your 2019 Budgeting
Conferences: Content + Connections
8 Lessons Washington, DC Learned about Community Engagement in 2017
Client News: Encinitas in Climate Action
5 Reasons We're Excited for 2018
SE Florida Climate Summit: Time to Act
Orlando and the Pursuit of a Smart City
Would you like to be a guest on our podcast in 2018?
Pittsburgh (New Podcast): From Industrial Center to International Sustainability Stage
Change: Must We? Can We? Will We? Questions from Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps Training
Making Good on Your Climate Commitments: How a Community Dashboard Can Help
Why Bonn Matters in Your Community: International Climate Policy, Local Governments and the COP
Flooding + Coastal Resilience on the Front Lines in Norfolk (New Podcast!)
New Podcast: Lessons from Houston on Flooding
With Debut of "An Inconvenient Sequel," Climate Reality Project Offers Tools for Local Climate Action
Take a 2-Minute Video Tour of our Sustainability Dashboard
Implementing Sustainability Plans: Hear from Richmond and San Antonio (New Podcasts)
How to Give Everyone a Voice at Community Events: Part 2
10 Best Practices: Giving Everyone a Voice at Community Events
How to Give Everyone a Voice at Your Community Events: Part 1
The Circular Economy: Phoenix Reverses Course on Waste
Trees: They Do a City (and Body) Good (New Podcast!)
Using Data to Tell Your Story (Repost from APWA Reporter)
New podcast: Facing Climate Threats Head-on with a Neighborhood Resilience Plan
10 Memorable Moments from APA
Going to APA #NPC17? Come See Us!
Apply What We Learned from the KLA Branding Exercise to Your Community Program
Podcast: Empower Volunteer Ambassadors to Fuel Your Community’s Sustainability Outreach
Easy Ways to Celebrate Earth Day April 22 (or June 17 or October 9….) in Your Community
Sustainability, Data and Public Health in Nashua
Public Works, Infrastructure and Sustainability: Perspectives from CA, NE and OR in new podcasts
Bush '05 + Trump '17 = Local Climate Action Now
New Podcast: Weaving “Sustainable ROI” into Infrastructure Decisions
Great read from a colleague: "8 Things We Can Do to Adapt to Climate Change"
New Financing Solutions Podcast: Will 2017 be “The Year of PACE”?
Preparing for the Unknown: The Importance of Local Leadership in the Trump Era
Introducing our new podcast focused on sustainability at the local level: SAS Talk with Kim Lundgren
Insights from the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference
How MA Keeps Claiming the Energy Efficiency Top Spot, and What Other States Can Do
A Public Works Perspective on Sustainability
New SAS Talks Podcast Series Kicks Off with Climate Resilience Focus
Tools: Where You'll Find the Action on Adaptation Planning
New Webinar Gives You Keys to the Sustainability Dashboard Kingdom
Female Power, Promise at Women's Entrepreneur Festival
Public Works Always There....For Your Bike to Work
Louisville Working to Keep the Heat on the Race Track
Houston flooding has climate resiliency lessons for us all
What Blew Me Away at APA: 5 Highlights from the American Planning Association Conference
What the KLA Sustainability Dashboard Can Do For Your Community
Spring Break 2040: How Climate Change Will Impact Family Trips to Florida
March Madness: These Teams Make One Shining Sustainability Moment Highlight Reel
100 Resilient Cities: How Hundreds More Cities Can Benefit
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