09/08/2026
๐ต Small actions can create big change.
A recent story from Arizona Environment a unit of the Arizona Institute for Resilience, explores how grassroots efforts, community engagement, and local connections are helping shape a more sustainable and resilient Tucson.
At the center of the story is America Blackketter, an intern with Living Streets Alliance who focused on safe routes and advocacy for Tucsonโs youth during her time at the organization. Through these efforts, Blackketter helped connect young people with sustainable transportation and showed how community-level action can contribute to larger environmental change.
Blackketter was also a 2025 - 2026 Moโs Policy Scholar at the Udall Center where she worked with Professor Ladd Keith and now-Assistant-Professor at the University of Charleston Minwoo Ahn exploring innovations in heat planning, policy, and governance.
As Blackketter puts it, โThe things that we do have a huge impact on the people around us, influencing the way a community works, so I think the small actions are a big step in trying to create more systematic change.โ ๐
๐ Read the full story at the link below!
Collaboration blending expertise from local organizations, researchers, community members, and local government, is helping lay the foundation for a socially and environmentally resilient urban landscape in Tucson that will support communities and ecosystems going into the future.
