Climate Change Solutions for Leaders

May 28, 2021 10:00am

(GMT -7:00) Pacific Time

Event URL: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-change-solutions-for-leaders-tickets-143336155299
Cost: Free

Practitioner/issue expert: Stephen Shepard and Cheryl Ng, Cool 'Hood Champs, UBC Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP)

Case examples:

Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust: A US-based organization that brings together a community land trust model and a conservation land trust model to reimagine land access and conservation in ways that uplift global Indigenous, Black, and POC relationships with land, skills, and lifeways.
12,000 Rain Gardens in Puget Sound: A campaign that promotes rain gardens to address problems by untreated, uncontrolled stormwater runoff and improve climate resiliency in urban areas. Stewardship Partners is an organization that acts as a clearinghouse for information and resources, including in-person events and training for people interested in learning to build rain gardens and other land conservation initiatives and research.
Green Bloc Neighborhoods: A grassroots initiative where neighbours work together to collectively reduce our ecological footprint through neighbourhood-based actions, such as building community gardens & pollinator pathways; hosting park-based, street-based, and school-based fun/educational activities (such as walking & wheeling programs); and hosting zero-waste workshops and building sharing libraries. They focus on events and activities for families, particularly inter-generational activities where young kids and kids at heart are the focus.
Resilience Force: A US-based organization that supports the workers who prepare, protect and repair communities in the wake of climate disaster.

Discussion questions:

What are the barriers to community-led green infrastructure projects and how can they be alleviated?
How could visualization or design fiction be used to spark inspiration for green infrastructure projects?
How does green infrastructure improve quality of life and climate resiliency for underserved communities and how can this be communicated in compelling ways?
What research would support this work?