“We want to improve the balance between development and protected land. We’re not standing here today to say, ‘No more development in Lake County.’ We’re… Read More »Lake County Residents Present ’30 X 30″ Environmental Project to Preserve Land
Climate Action Planning is the process by which local governments can assess the many options that are available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within their… Read More »NWI Environmental Resilience Cohort
February 2, 2022 – Earth Charter Indiana received a shoutout for its grassroots initiatives around climate change in the community at the NIRPC Environmental Management… Read More »ECI Recognized by NIRPC
Who We Are The Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC) is the council of government and metropolitan planning organization for Northwest Indiana, the region incorporating… Read More »Accepting Applications for New Climate Action Plan Intern for Summer 2022
Several Municipal and county governments have completed a community-wide greenhouse gas inventory and are eligible to participate in the 12-month program led by Indiana University… Read More »Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory and 2022 Climate Action Planning
September 16, 2021 – Kathy Luther of NIRPC and Kathy Sipple of Earth Charter Indiana, presented an update on Northwest Indiana’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Inventory… Read More »2021 Climate Leadership Summit
We recently received news that we were accepted into the 2021 IU Resilience Cohort! Northwest Indiana is the first region to participate in this program;… Read More »Seeking Greenhouse Gas Inventory Interns!
Watch the recording here. After a long hiatus, Northwest Indiana Green Drinks is back…virtually, at least for now. If you missed it you can catch… Read More »NWI Region Resilience Presented at First Ever Virtual Green Drinks in Northwest Indiana
Thursday morning (9/17), the NIRPC Executive Board Meeting occurred via Zoom. A total of 64 participants were there, many of them present to support our… Read More »Success! – NIRPC Executive Board Meeting
At the NIRPC Environmental Management and Policy Meeting this past Thursday, 9/3, members of the NWI Region Resilience team presented the IU Resilience Cohort to… Read More »NIRPC Executive Board Meeting