New Book! The Resilience Advantage

The Resilience Advantage is a hands-on survival and success manual for small businesses in an era of climate disruption. With storms, floods, and heat waves hitting harder and more often, climate change is no longer a distant threat—it’s rewriting the rules of daily life and the economy. This book gives entrepreneurs practical, step-by-step strategies to navigate these crises in real time.

Written for American small business owners across all sectors—from retail and restaurants to manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation—it offers a blueprint for protecting people, property, and profits when the unexpected strikes. It tackles the shrinking safety net for small businesses, showing owners how to prepare financially, close insurance gaps, and create continuity plans before disaster hits. Beyond logistics, it acknowledges the economic and emotional toll of climate change, offering real-world examples and encouragement to help owners adapt, recover, and ultimately thrive in the face of uncertainty.

The Resilience Advantage: A Small Business Guide to Preparing for Floods, Heatwaves, Wildfires, and Other Climate Disasters

Ready to Build a More Resilient Future?

We help governments, organizations, and communities turn climate risk into resilience

For over two decades, Climate Resilience Consulting leaders have supported climate adaptation strategy, project implementation, and funding alignment that protects lives, strengthens livelihoods, and reduces long-term costs.

Climate-related losses have surged from $12 billion annually in 1980 to nearly $120 billion today. The human toll is rising fastest in communities with the least capacity to adapt.

We’re climate resilience pioneers. Our team equips governments, frontline organizations, and mission-driven partners with the tools to understand climate risks, develop actionable strategies, and implement high-impact projects—from resilience hubs to green infrastructure and workforce solutions.

Explore our Focus on Three Aspects of Resilience

We work with you to prioritize your resources, enhance your investments, and build resilient institutions.

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STRATEGY

Our strategy work focuses on climate resilience success through transformative policy change, infrastructure improvements, and vibrant partnerships. Over a decade ago, we created one of the world’s first resilience strategies and we lead advisory groups, offer training, and perform research for strategy success.

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IMPLEMENTATION

CRC specializes in supporting communities and institutions to turn their plans for resilience into outcomes. Our services include project finance advising, capacity-building, stakeholder facilitation, and one-on-one coaching to help partners build momentum and stay funded..

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

CRC produces tools, guidance, and insight that simplify climate complexity and support real-world adaptation. We tackle emerging climate risks, equip organizations with the knowledge to lead, and translate research into accessible, equity-centered solutions that drive action.

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Featured Projects

Resilience Hub Planning and Design

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CRC has worked with over 20 community-based organizations nationwide to co-design resilience hubs—trusted, multifunctional spaces that support residents before, during, and after climate emergencies.

Our Resilience Hub Planning and Design Compendium (2025) distills insights from these projects, offering practical guidance on hub functions, funding pathways, and equitable community engagement. It includes:

  • Case studies from 7 cities

  • Design and budgeting guidance

  • Implementation checklists for local governments and nonprofits

Guidance for Philanthropy

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In 2024, CRC collaborated with the Packard Foundation and Dr. Susanne Moser to update Rising to the Challenge, Together—a landmark framework guiding philanthropic investment in climate resilience.

This new report, The Tasks of Now: Toward a New Era in Climate Resilience Building draws on expert interviews and frontline insights to outline:

  • Key strategies for long-term resilience funding

  • Priority areas for impact at scale

  • Transformative actions and principles for philanthropy

Bolstering Resilience in Land Use Planning

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CRC partnered with the U.S. Climate Alliance and Smart Growth America to produce Climate and Land Use Planning: A Policy Guide for U.S. States and Territories. It highlights innovative approaches from states across the country—giving planners and policymakers tools to scale climate-smart land management.

This guide shows how land use policies can:

  • Reduce GHG emissions and climate risk

  • Improve ecosystem resilience

  • Advance equitable land stewardship