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Our Community Resilience Research is well underway and getting some significant feedback from the communities affected by Cyclone Gabrielle and the early 2023 Auckland Floods. As this article about our research on RNZ today reports, we've noticed a really strong need for communities to have their voices heard. "People are still obviously really keen to get their stories out there, and for people to listen", commented our Data Curator and Research Lead, Jennifer Pannell. We are still welcoming feedback through our survey from people involved the community response in Hawke's Bay, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, and Tairāwhiti Gisborne, in particular. Please share our survey link https://lnkd.in/edDVBjQr with your connections to help build our community voice. Our goal is to co-design a roadmap to support communities response and recovery, and build a climate resilient Aotearoa.  Read more about our research here: https://lnkd.in/gHEKGh-C with Whakatupu Aotearoa Foundation, Eastern & Central Community Trust, Zero Waste Network Aotearoa, Community Energy Network, Para Kore, Waiheke Resources Trust, Sustainable HB - Centre for Climate and Resilience, Te Weu Charitable Trust #environmenthubs #environmenthubsaotearoa #communitypreparedness #communityresilience #communityledresearch

As our cities and communities experience growing impacts from the #climeatecrisis, the need for #resiliencehubs becomes more broadly appreciated. According to U.S. Green Building Council: “Resilience hubs operate in three modes: everyday, disruption and recovery. As the name implies, everyday mode is engaged most of the time, when no major issue is present. In disruption mode, a resilience hub acts as a central gathering point, offering resources and leading response. Recovery mode kicks in after a disruption happens, helping communities bounce back.” Read the full U.S. Green Building Council case study of the City of Cambridge Community Center’s role in #community resilience here: https://lnkd.in/ev7JGMJH

Our 23/24 Sustaining Choices programme (Planning Aid Scotland) has just wrapped up 👏 Well done to communities in the North Berwick Coastal Ward, Glenfarg and the surrounding area, and North Cathcart Road who developed Active and Sustainable Travel Action Plans for their places. These plans will be excellent tools for generating ideas and advocating for resources, in order to improve moving around. Thanks to Paths for All for supporting through the Smarter Choices, Smarter Places fund. 🤔 What's next? We are fortunate to have some further funding from Smarter Choices, Smarter Places fund to further evolve the programme. While we are just in the early stages of planning, I would love to connect with organisations/groups who would like to explore creating a Local Walking Plan for their place. We are also keen to not only produce a report, but other resources as well. Perhaps a film, zine, giant poster?! In this round of Sustaining Choices, we are focussing on walking. We want to work with communities to explore what walking is like in your place and how it could be better. There will be a big focus on creative engagement techniques and reaching out to a broad range of people. So this should be a lot of fun. 🚶♀️ 🎭 🎉 We are currently looking to connect with communities who have the most to gain from being able to walk more. This might mean your place could be at significant risk from the impacts of climate change, an area considered to be of high deprivation (according to the SIMD), or have physical/environmental barriers which prevent access to walking. 📧 Get in touch to find out more: [email protected] (Pictured is Brett, our project lead in the North Berwick Coastal Ward showing, their action plan to a member of the public)

💡 Imagined Endstate:   Envision a future where disaster-affected communities aren't just rebuilt but are fortified with resilience? 🌏 This transformation is driven by social capital nurtured through the power of volunteerism and community building.

The Green Cities Foundation aims to protect, nurture, and grow urban green spaces in Canada for the health and well-being of all. The Foundation's #GreenMyCity program provides support to groups of community volunteers in Canada for green revitalization projects, which include landscape restoration or improvement to improve urban air and water quality and create healthy, public amenities. Projects must be located in public, accessible open spaces in urban Canadian communities, such as community gardens, sports fields, green spaces, brown spaces, parks, streets, school grounds, and historic green spaces. Any public land that could contribute more productively to a community’s overall health and well-being may be eligible. The aim is to help communities create or improve green spaces that people will be able to enjoy, and that will improve air, soil, and water quality and reduce the effects of human activity on climate change. Garden clubs, associations, neighborhood groups, service clubs, and school or youth groups are encouraged to apply. The program funds up to 50% (cash and/or in-kind labor or material donations) of green space improvements. Call 516.410.4895, or email [email protected] for a free fee quote to have us write your entire proposal, or edit your draft, for a reasonable flat fee https://lnkd.in/eheyyhfa Bev Browning Holly Rustick

Engagement Matters Part 4: Build a resilient community. Help residents know what to prepare for and the resources available, paving the way to equitable disaster response using community input to customize resource allocation. https://ow.ly/oLis50REmHO

💡 Imagined Endstate:  Can you envision a future where disaster-affected communities aren't just rebuilt but are fortified with resilience? 🌏 This transformation is driven by social capital nurtured through the power of volunteerism and community building. https://lnkd.in/guBGzCf6

Engagement Matters Part 4: Build a resilient community. Help residents know what to prepare for and the resources available, paving the way to equitable disaster response using community input to customize resource allocation. https://ow.ly/mOIG50RERlZ

Community connection, community planning and community building are all highlighted as important aspects of community resilience in this article. With areas of Australia impacted again and again by the changing climate, governments, communities and organisations need to work together to reduce the impacts and consequences. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gTxgxcHr #CommunityResilience #DisasterResilience

Community Resilience Partnership grants provide a great opportunity to invest in one of 72 resilience projects that may already be a part of your town's list of priorities. Learn more here: https://loom.ly/nHjLXK0 For instance, Stonington, Maine, which joined the Partnership in March 2023, has long needed to raise Oceanville Road, even prior to the January storms. The project planning was already underway with Community Action Grant funds, but now it faces additional adjustments to raise the road even higher. "We knew were going to raise that causeway because with the sea level rise that has been coming, we knew we were going to have to," said town manager Kathleen Billings. "But the issue now is, with the recent storms, we have to go back to the engineer. What we thought we had planned for is not going to be adequate anymore." Pictured: Oceanville Road in Stonington, Maine during January's storm surge. (credit: Town of Stonington) #Maine #MaineWontWait #climatechange #Climatesolutions #resilienceplanning #resilience #sustainability #Climateresilience #environment #infrastructure #communityresilienepartnership #community #partnership #resiliencepartnership #resilienceproject #infrastructureplan #stoningtonmaine #communityaction #sealevel