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Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, & Adaptation Resources

13 April 2026

Basic Resources

  • Adapting Your Local Foodshed to a Changing Climate — New HCFS Guide
  • Climate Change: Key Facts — Climate Central
  • Climate Interactive — climate change simulations from basic to more complex that run on your personal computer to test and understand strategies and policies.
  • Why is biodiversity essential for limiting climate change? — United Nations
  • The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink — Bioscience
  • Addressing Climate Change with Local Food — HCFS
  • Observing Indicators of Foodshed Health — HCFS guide to monitoring foodshed health with emphasis on climate and biodiversity

Local & Regional

  • Sustainability and Climate Resilience Program — La Plata County
  • San Juan Mtns Climate Change Assessment — MSI (from 2012, but good info)
  • San Juan Climate Initiative — MSI
  • Western Water Assessment (WWA) — Comprehensive climate science website for CO, UT, & WY
  • National Climate Assessment — including regional assessments
  • WWA Dashboard — Latest Intermountain West Climate & Drought Status & Outlooks
  • Southwest Colorado Resilience Project — using scenarios to build resilience on public lands

Native American & Four Corners Impacts

  • 2014 Navajo Nation Nania & Cozzetto Report
  • Navajo Wildlife and Climate Change (2013)
  • ITEP website (Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals)

Climate-Friendly Agriculture & Food Production

  • Adapting Your Local Foodshed to a Changing Climate — New HCFS Guide
  • Climate Solutions — ATTRA
  • Regenerative 21st Century Farming — A Solution to Global Warming — report from Rodale
  • Climate Friendly Farming — Washington State University
  • Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land — from Gary Nabhan
  • Wild Farming, Ranching, and Gardening — HCFS
  • Potential Climate-Friendly Food System Measures — HCFS (Note new e-mail for Jim Dyer)

Climate Change & Food Systems

  • HCFS booklets on Food System Tools page — Climate-Friendly Food Systems, Sustainable Food Choices, Extending the Local Food Season, Year-Round Local Food Calendars
  • Reducing Food Miles — resource page from ATTRA
  • Fossil Fuel & Food Security — book chapter by Dick White

Being Proactive—as a Community—About Climate Change in our Local Food Systems and Foodsheds

May 6, 2026

Fickle Monsoons, Summer in March, and Hot Summer Nights: Climate change is here, has been seriously affecting local agriculture, and will certainly get worse. It will take some serious effort to adjust our local food production and local food systems to the extent needed, so why not ramp up efforts now to adapt and help […]

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