Game Day Working Group | 4-4-15 - Northern Manhattan

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Fri, 2015-04-03 18:02 — mdmcdonald

This working group is focused on discussions originating on Game Day - April 4, 2015.

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Northern Manhattan Climate Resilience Workshop - April 4, 2015

Thu, 2015-04-09 15:23 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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On April 4, 2015 a climate change planning workshop was held for West Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood. The workshop brought local stakeholders together to develop community-based responses to climate related events including heat waves and hurricanes, among others.

The "Northern Manhattan Climate Change Resilience Project" is a collaborative planning process for ensuring that New York City's response to climate change meets the needs of low-income and other marginalized communities in Northern Manhattan and beyond. In additon to advocating for public policies that reverse the city's legacy and trajectory of socio-economic inequality, participants will work to develop systems of local cooperation that can support social resilience in the face of climate change.

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A Community Response to Extreme Weather Emergencies

Tue, 2015-04-07 22:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

climateresil-weact.nationbuilder.com - by Dee Aheme - April 7, 2015

On Saturday April 4^th, I participated in an amazing and eye-opening climate change planning workshop for Northern Manhattan. The room was packed from wall-to-wall with over 65 diverse community members from West Harlem, Washington Heights, and Inwood, many of whom were my fellow WE ACT members, and all of whom were gathered with one goal: to help Northern Manhattan’s low-income and working class residents prepare for the climate crisis.

We know that due to global warming we are already seeing more frequent ‘extreme weather emergencies’ and we can expect that those conditions will get worse over the coming years. We know that in the NYC area we will see summer heat waves intensify and winter storms become more severe, with greater risk of flooding due to rising sea-levels. The big question posed at this workshops was: what are we going to do about it?