At the beginning of 2025, we knew it was time to make bold moves into new terrain. Though based in Nashville, Tennessee, the Cumberland River Compact’s work stretches from the […]
As Nashville and the surrounding areas grow more populated, the effort to promote clean water, greener neighborhoods, and healthier waterways becomes more important every day. And in many ways, it’s […]
It’s the spring of 2025: the Cumberland River Compact operates out of a corner office in a high-rise building on the water. Around it, the bones of an old slaughterhouse […]
Learn how Nashville’s road design can catalyze healthy waterways, and how a future Green and Complete Street on West Trinity Lane could take shape. It can be a challenge to […]
Celebrating 2024 Milestones, Looking Forward to 2025 At the Cumberland River Compact, winter is about planning, preparing, and sowing seeds for the years to come. Just like overwintering seeds, the […]
What (and who) defined the Cumberland River Compact in 2023? It was psychiatrist Carl Jung who originally coined the idea, now popular among conservationists, of “doing the next right thing”; […]
Climate Change is “baked in”. In the past couple of years, “resilience” has become a real buzzword in the environmental and climate world. The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit defines resilience […]
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges we are facing today in Nashville, Tennessee, and throughout the world. It’s an incredibly complex problem and in order to solve it, […]
Water is ever-changing. And as it changes, so too does it shape and change its environment, our environment. When it comes to understanding the water quality of the Cumberland River […]
2010 Nashville Flood. Photo credit to Stephen Yeargin. CC BY-SA 2.0 license. Summary: In May 2010, Nashville experienced severe flooding across the city. As Nashville recovered from the flood, the […]
