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Resilient Sustainable Future for Iowa City<\/h1>\n

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What is Resilient Sustainable Future for Iowa City (RSFIC)?<\/h2>\n

As a society, we\u2019ve got a big, overwhelming problem: our culture is fundamentally unsustainable. We all know it. But we\u2019re sort of paralyzed – none of us know exactly what needs to be done, or in what order, and sometimes it feels like there\u2019s nothing an individual can do to make a difference. And in the meantime we have bills to pay and jobs to keep.<\/span><\/p>\n

RSFIC is a private foundation in Iowa City with a mission to build long-term, systemic resilience in Iowa City. We are finding ways that we can collectively shift our behavior and beliefs that are fun, healthy, and realistic in today\u2019s brittle and unsustainable society.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re not talking about saving the environment – we\u2019re talking about growing solidarity and relocalizing power so that Iowa City can be resilient to the wild changes that we know are headed our way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our strategy has four parts:<\/span><\/p>\n