Hi all. Shannon McLachlan, FEMA community planner. Knowing your risks and knowing your resources/assets.

Hi! Ben Eckstein, Intern at SHV

Hi everyone, Kelly Pflicke, Resiliency Specialist at FEMA Region II.

John Wackman, here in Kingston, working on ways to repair our world

Hi! Mark Varian New Paltz Climate Action Coalition

hi all, Lucy Galbraith, Director, TOD, Metro Transit, Twin Cities

Good Afternoon All - MJ Wilson, FEMA Region 2, Mitigation Program Manager

Joe Phelan - SHV Senior Fellow and recently-retired Rhinebeck School Disrict Superintendent of Schools

Sue Sie with Backyard to Table, Lifeboats HV and the Morton Seed Library

Hi everyone, Cathy Bobenhausen, Village of Dobbs Ferry NY Sustainability Task Force

Dave Conover, Program Coordinator, Sustainable Hudson Valley

sorry I am late

Take risks together and help each other succeed

create shared outdoor spaces and good walkability

Have regular, inclusive community events & celebrations

Even though the public is invited to attend zoning, planning, and economic development commissions no one does.

Invest in it's institutions (e.g. public libraries).

How can a community "deal with" bottom-line developers?

Know your vulnerable neighbors and check in on them.

Yes, Open Streets, Better Block, all help create community!

during Covid we started a neighborhood email chain for mutual assistance

Allow virtual participation in all public hearings, so more people can contribute

All of this builds "social infrastructure"

The Farmers market in Rosendale was our only social contact during covid

At least during COVID, lots more people Zoom in than ever attended planning meetings.

annual CRO-ing, love it!

Pick up Repair Revolution by John Wackman and Elizabeth Knight - just published New World Library - bookshop.org

Wow!

Great analogy!

"Spirit of place symbolizes the living ecological relationship between a particular location and the persons who have derived from it and added to it the various aspects of their humanness. The reason we are now desecrating nature is not because we use it to our ends, but because we commonly manipulate it without respect for the spirit of place." - Rene Dubos

How about the story of Rosendale...cut off from its river by flood control (Army Corps) in the sixties or seventies. Andrew--you know more about this

And some property owners are preventing public access to the creek.

Binghamton is in the midst of trying to create a sense of place. To mixed success.

Hoboken!!!

Great examples!

sex and infrastructure in the same sentence!

Parkville is Hartford’s poorest neighborhood and the micro-grid powers the market, a gas station, and I think some housing.

"cobbling" is a good thing, right?

and the cost of doing nothing

The Chicago Honey Cooperative, remarkable use of old industrial sites

Such a good illustration/point.

The EPA (yes, the EPA!) is getting more & more involved in sustainable resource management--with particular focus on disaster recovery

"Twenty-first century libraries" see themselves as sustainability leaders for their communities

thank you for sharing all of this evidence of success! have to hop off. Thanks!!!

Chambers of commerce are non profit organizations and can move faster than government. sometimes need to make illogical partnerships

There are fantastic well organized strategic Chambers - Saugerties comes to mind.

I hope this is being recorded

It is.

Sorry folks, I have to drop. It was good to see some familiar names/faces. Thank you for the great information and thoughtful engagement. I look forward to continued conversations.

We’ll wrap in 5 minutes. Thanks to all.

Thank you!

Thank you!

thank you so much!