During September each year, Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW) presents Climate Preparedness Week, dedicated to learning, service, and actions that better prepare our communities for extreme weather events. Due to the Covid-19 public health crisis, this year's Climate Prep Week events will take place in a virtual setting to ensure the safety of our community members.
Featured events:
9/24 at 1pm - Resilient Agriculture: Climate Impacts on Our Foods Systems and How We Can Respond
- A panel discussion led by Enet Mukurazita and hosted by the Yale School of Forrestry’s Library with women farmers in Zimbabwe on their experiences dealing with climate impacts
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JN23Rk8sRHaLpjCWydb7Mg
9/24 at 7pm - Palaces for the People: A Community Discussion with Eric Klinenberg
- A virtual discussion with acclaimed writer Eric Klinenberg with librarians and community members. Eric Klinenberg is well known for his novel Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago and his more recent book Palaces for the People.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PjqyASu7Tre02T3l6zSEEA
9/25 at 10am - Neighborhood by Neighborhood: Mapping Our Resilience
- An overview of a Boston mapping project with the Conservation Law Foundation and the city of Boston. This event will explore the community assets that exist within the city of Boston and how they can be leveraged to create a more climate-resilient future, with a particular focus on how we can serve communities of color and other marginalized neighborhoods.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fPfn2qrUSKa3aN2ehUz1EA
9/26 @ 7pm - The Economics of Climate Change with Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD
- Our economic system has fostered individualism over community and competition over collaboration, because simply, these are the channels that promote economic growth as we measure it in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We sell more when everyone has to have their own. But, individualism and competition results in unequal distribution that mimics the inequitable distribution of access to resources in our country. In many cases, inequity is a moral issue because the basis of it is exploitation of the vulnerable in a myriad of forms across historical time. In our discussion we will focus on the relationship between economics and sustainability: social justice, environmental justice and economic equity and also how our focus on economic growth has facilitated the speed of global Climate Change and exacerbated social justice issues along with the other two components of sustainability.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlf-ysqzwuH9KR_7dA234paGe1sR9WIpvV
9/29 at 6:30pm - How Repair Events Can Transform Our Throwaway Culture
A conversation on How Repair Events Can Transform Our Throwaway Culture with Elizabeth Knight and John Wackman, authors of Repair Revolution. This event will look at how repair events in libraries and other spaces are helping bring people together around common goals of sustainability, stewardship, community resilience, as well as social and climate justice. This conversation will be led by Blue Marble Librarian, Gabrielle Griffis.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UHRz2-VHTn27KnTNyy_G_Q
9/30 at 6:30pm - The Linked Fight for Racial Justice and Climate Justice
- Join us for a conversation with CREW Program Manager Reverend Vernon K. Walker as he speaks to Reverends Karlene Griffiths Sekou and Hajar Logan about how there is no climate justice without racial justice and how the fight for equality has to be led by those who have been most impacted.
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NeSN-Ym7Rv-KzNDWePu4OQ
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