Community Leadership, Climate Resilience, and Green Infrastructure
Community Leadership, Climate Resilience, and Green Infrastructure
DATE AND TIME
The Mountaineers
7700 Sand Point Way Northeast
Seattle, WA 98115
Please join Island Press author Rebecca Wodder and the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development’s Executive Director Arthur Johnson for a conversation about how to build community resilience to climate-driven water challenges—and build natural and social capital in the process. Ms. Wodder brings a policy context and will discuss strategies for community engagement, while Mr. Johnson will provide case studies in building community resilience using examples from his work with residents to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward.
Speakers
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Rebecca Wodder, a water resources advocate, who has been writing and speaking on watershed and water resource resiliency for four decades. Rebecca’s current focus is on how natural and human environments can reinforce each other in resilient and sustainable ways.
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Arthur Johnson, Executive Director of Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development, a community-based organization in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans focused on sustainability, community education, advocacy, and training and civic and community development.
