Articles by Tonya Graham

About Tonya Graham

Tonya Graham is the Executive Director of the Geos Institute where she directs the ClimateWise® initiative to help communities understand and plan for climate change impacts. She has worked with her team over the past 10 years to develop the Whole Community Resilience framework and is a co-author of A Practical Guide to Building Climate Resilience, which serves as the basis for the Institute’s Climate Ready Communities program.

Building Climate Resilience in America’s Smaller Cities and Towns

The work of transitioning to a carbon neutral global civilization requires that our next generation of leaders looks to, and invests in, the future. By working right now to build climate resilience across the U.S. in small and mid-sized cities, we will not only protect our families and communities in the near-term, we will protect our capacity to do the work of reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the long-term.