Rural climate dialogue webinar archive + resources

Last week, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) hosted a webinar Rural Climate Dialogue: Local Approaches to Climate Preparedness and Resilience. This informative session covered not only climate change issues and how they relate to rural communities, but also a very useful dialogue process using citizen juries, which could be applied to a wide variety of issues.

Here is an archive from the webinar, as well as several follow-up resources.

Slides from the session

Rural Climate Network (subscribe to the newsletter here!)

Rural Climate Dialogues

Morris Rural Climate Dialogue

Citizen Juries

See you at the potluck

Taneum Fotheringill reflects on her experience at Radically Rural in Keene, New Hampshire October 2026 Hosting a potluck feels like

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Drawing Resilience: Nicole Cormier

Out in rural Cape Cod, holistic nutritionist and dietician Nicole Cormier is busy weaving community resilience with herbalism, agriculture and clinical practice in one of the only internships of its kind in the U.S. She’s also deeply engaged in feeding community; both her own and those that need additional care and support.

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A Wave of Energy: Reflections from Rural Assembly Everywhere 2026

Madeline Matson and Taneum Fotheringill traveled to Granite Falls, Minn., to host Rural Assembly Everywhere live from The YES! House, in partnership with the Department of Public Transformation (DoPT). The conversation below is a reflection on their experience hosting live, participating in an open mic night, and celebrating the hundreds of people who joined together to uplift our rural communities across the country during Rural Assembly Everywhere 2026.

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