Convening Summaries

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Effective Messaging: Communicating Nature's Benefits
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Carpe Diem West releases report New Visions, Smart Choices - Western Water Security in a Changing Climate
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Healthy Headwaters Alliance rolls out inaugural Policy Platform
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Latest Academy webinar recording archived- Watershed Valuation: A Closer Look
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Healthy Headwaters 6th Leadership Convening in Portland a resounding success
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Academy Webinar Series: November 14
Robust Decision Making
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Academy Webinar Series: September 20th
Vulnerability Assessment - Take Two
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Carpe Diem West's new Director of Programs starts July 9th!
Meet Cynthia Koehler 

Academy Webinar Series: June 21st
Watershed Valuation - From Australia to the American West 
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Healthy Headwaters Alliance rolled out April 2012, releases charter Policy Platform
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Carpe Diem West Academy launches its newsletter!  
Convergence

Academy Webinar Series: March 21st 
Getting Through the Bottleneck: Assessing Vulnerability
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Leadership Convening Summary: Healthy Headwaters 
Carpe Diem West’s fourth Healthy Headwaters convening, an invited leadership group from water utilities, conservation NGOs, government, and the scientific community addressed emerging issues arising in their work to create resilient watersheds and water security in the American West in a time of climate change – in Oakland on October 28, 2011. Read More

NEW Report: Governing Like A River Basin: Options for Expanded Stakeholder Engagement in the Colorado River Basin examines examples of successful stakeholder engagement processes and how they may be used in conjunction with the Bureau of Reclamation’s Basin Study to build long-term solutions for the Colorado River. Read More

NEW Report:  Read Carpe Diem West's report, Watershed Investment Programs in the American West. An Updated Look: Linking Upstream Watershed Health & Downstream Security, which provides information on what communities are doing to protect their headwaters. Read the report

Charting the Rapids Ahead
In partnership with the Center for Public Health & Climate Change, Carpe Diem West conducted an overview analysis to assess the intersection of western water, climate change and public health.
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Web Forum:
Western Water, Climate Change and Public Health
Presented in Partnership with the Public Health Institute's
Center for Public Health & Climate Change
Aired 10/19/11
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Webinar on the U.S. Forest Service's Watershed Condition Framework (WCF)
Hosted by Carpe Diem West – 
U.S. Forest Service's Anne Zimmermann, Director of Watersheds, Fish, Wildlife, Air & Rare Plants talks about the WCF and how is it guiding on-the-ground restoration. 
Aired 10/6/11.
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Carpe Diem West Academy
Webinar Series Continues
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Carpe Diem West Academy Website Phase II
Thanks to the generous funding of the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, we're off and running on Phase II of the Carpe Diem West Academy. Launching in December 2011, Phase II will be even more dynamic, offering webinars, discussion forums, feedback mechanisms, user profiles, and new tools and best practices. Read More

Healthy Headwaters Meeting Summary
Carpe Diem West's Healthy Headwaters Working Group held its third face-to-face meeting - along with an invited group of western water leaders – in Denver on March 25, 2011. Read More

'Thinking Like a River Basin' Report
Carpe Diem West's report, Thinking Like a River Basin: Leaders' Perspectives on Options and Opportunities in Colorado River Management, paints a portrait of a river basin – and a leadership community – at a crossroads. Read More

Denver Post Colorado River Op-Ed
On February 25, the Denver Post ran an insightful op-ed by Carpe Diem West leader Doug Kenney of the Colorado River Governance Initiative at the University of Colorado in Boulder, about the long-term future of dwindling Colorado River supplies in the face of climate change – and what people are doing about it.
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New CRS Report on Energy's Water Demands
In January 2011, lead author Nicole Carter and her colleagues at the Congressional Research Service submitted their new report, Energy's Water Demand: Trends, Vulnerabilities, and Management, to Congress. It provides an excellent overview analysis of the water footprint of energy in the United States. Read More