TOMORROW: Join us for two webinars on California's climate threats
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Climate Change, Health and the Built Environment Discussion Series
Part 1: California’s Landscape
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
11:30 am - 1:00 pm PT
Via Zoom Webinar
With an increasingly urgent need to adapt to our changing climate, the built environment offers unique opportunities for programs and new practices that can protect and improve human health. In order to effectively capitalize on these opportunities, it is critical to engage stakeholders from real estate, development, public health, public policy, climate adaptation, and other industries. The challenges – such as more frequent and severe heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods — can be destructive to the built environment, harm human health, and displace communities. However, the solutions offered by intersectoral work can be cost effective, simple, and innovative. Through discussion and collaboration, implementing solutions can add value to real communities, increase resilience, and improve quality of life.
This first installment (of three in the series) will provide an overview of the current threats to our state (extreme heat, wildfire, drought, air quality) and discuss the ways each of these issues is mitigated/exacerbated by the built environment. Each of these topics will be linked back to health and equity and will lay groundwork for understanding the level of threat and set up discussion about ways to respond.
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Toxic Tides Project Launch: Webinar Series
Statewide Launch + Briefing
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
9:30 am - 11:00 am PT
Via Zoom Webinar
You are invited to the virtual launch of the Toxic Tides Project, a community-focused research initiative that explores the intersection of sea level rise (SLR), hazardous sites, and environmental justice in California.
The project seeks to characterize the threats posed by sea level rise and the projected flood risk of hazardous sites to disadvantaged and vulnerable communities along California’s coast. We aim to inform climate resilience planning and protect vulnerable communities by disseminating findings among public health and environmental justice advocates as well as local and state decision-makers.
Register below for the event most relevant to you - see details below.
Statewide Launch + Briefing Tues Nov 30, 9:30-11:00 am
Bay Area Regional Presentation Weds Dec 8, 5:30-6:00 pm
Southern California Regional Workshop Tues Dec 14, 10:00-11:30am
Central Coast Regional Workshop Weds Dec 15, 10:00-11:30am
Which event should I attend?
While each event shares a similar agenda, the content will differ based on the geographic area of focus (Statewide, Bay Area, Southern California, and Central Coast). Event 2 (Bay Area Regional Presentation) is a 25-minute presentation, part of a 2-day regional workshop put on by the San Francisco Bay Shoreline Contamination Cleanup Coalition, along with local, regional and state government agencies, and community groups from around the Bay Area. This workshop is from Dec 8-9, from 3:30-6 pm on both days. See details in the attached flyer, and register here.