Eco-Industrial Parks | Industrial Ecology | Sustainable Agriculture
Integrative Regional Action Planning | Climate Adaptation | Sustainable Communities

Can we respond at the level of the crisis? Since we first posed this question over a year ago, the word "crisis" has become all too real. Extreme weather events around the world during 2010 demonstrate that the impacts of climate change are occuring right now. Flooding over one fifth of Pakistan hit twenty million people, wiping out infrastructure, villages, crops, orchards, and livelidhoods. So far the world's response is far from the level of the crisis. Indigo has joined with three other organizations to support sustainable reconstruction and economic recovery in Pakistan. See What's New and http://www.pakrenewal.com. Millions of families, communities, and regions here in the US and around the world continue to suffer the profound financial and economic crisis. A financial bubble is deflating. A boom that has been growing most years since the 1980s suddenly burst. Although some see "green shoots", especially in the financial markets, real unemployment is at least 17% in most of the US and projected to continue for another three years or more. We need an integrative approach to regional economic recovery now, as hundreds of companies and stores close, as workers lose their jobs, as towns and cities fail to meet their budgets. We can't just wait for the government to fix things. The Indigo team supports regional and local leaders in designing solutions to the financial and economic crisis at the regional level. This process builds upon our work in sustainable economic development, integrative regional action planning, and eco-industrial development. We believe that economic recovery will be strengthened by developing green ventures and jobs, responding to climate change, and other aspects of a high performance sustainable economy. Go to Recovery Now! for information on how we can work with you.