Resilience - SFL

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This working group focuses on the overall resilience of South Florida

To monitor the current state of, and to make recommendations on how to improve, the resilience of South Florida in the context of education, business development, and emergency preparedness.

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TIME - Meet the 31 People Who Are Changing the South - Caroline Lewis

Wed, 2018-08-15 23:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Caroline Lewis - Jorge Castillo—The CLEO Institute

time.com - July 26, 2018

People across South Florida are awakening to the danger of climate change, and Caroline Lewis is a big reason why. The former high school principal has spent the last eight years educating the region’s vulnerable communities about its effects from the helm of the CLEO Institute, a nonprofit she founded. At the heart of CLEO’s work is Lewis’ training of local leaders in the science and policy of global warming, so they can spread the word in their communities. CLEO also helped found the Miami Climate Alliance, which has planned marches and helped shape local environmental policy.

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Miami is preparing for climate change. Critics say bureaucracy almost slowed it down

Sat, 2018-05-12 08:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by David McDougal

After a heavy rain in August, pedestrians wade across flooded streets in Miami’s Brickell area of Miami. Carl Juste

miamiherald.com - by JOEY FLECHAS AND ALEX HARRIS - May 10, 2018

Facing strong opposition from climate-change groups, Miami on Thursday backed down from a change critics said would undermine the city's quest to position itself as the shining example of how a city should prepare for climate change.

Multiple commissioners and a host of activists were worried a change to the city's leadership structure could send the public and other governments the wrong message about how seriously the city is taking climate change. They feared that high-level planning decisions and big-ticket projects across the city wouldn't get the necessary input from the staffers with expertise.

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Community Groups Begin Work On Hurricane Plans For Low-Income Neighborhoods In Miami-Dade, Broward

Tue, 2018-04-24 16:20 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Volunteers with Koncious Contractors remove tree branches from a Little Havana home. After Hurricane Irma, many South Florida community groups deployed volunteers to low-income and disabled people with recovery. NADEGE GREEN / WLRN

wlrn.org - by KATE STEIN & ALEXANDER GONZALEZ - April 23, 2018

Several South Florida nonprofits are launching five meetings to ensure equality in hurricane recovery efforts, continuing work that began after Hurricane Irma.

After the storm, some elderly people went days without ice or water. Some students who rely on free school lunches didn't have a way to eat. Volunteers and community groups stepped up to host barbecues, deliver supplies and help with tree removal.

Now the groups want to create preparedness plans that specifically meet the needs of low-income neighborhoods. They also want to push for more accountability from elected officials.

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Disaster Resilience Community Meetings - Miami-Dade County & Broward County

Wed, 2018-04-18 17:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

South Broward
Monday, April 23, 2018
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
NewFM
C.W. Thomas Park
800 NW 2nd St.
Dania Beach, FL 33004

North Miami-Dade
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sant La and New FM
Sant La Neighborhood Center
13390 W Dixie Hwy.
North Miami, FL 33161

Central Broward
Monday, April 30, 2018
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
NewFM, My Brother"s Keeper
Willie L. Webb, Senior Park
3601 NW 21st St.
Lauderdale Lakes, FL 33311

Central Miami-Dade
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
NewFM, MCA, FANM
Circle of Brotherhood School
5120 NW 24th Ave.
Miami, FL 33147

Central Miami-Dade
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FANM
100 NE 84th St.
Miami, FL 33138

South Miami-Dade
Thursday, May 3, 2018
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
WeCount, Catalyst Miami, NewFM
WeCount
201 N. Krome Ave. #230
Homestead, FL 33030

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Free Resources for Disaster Resilience

Sun, 2017-06-25 08:52 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses, and recent events have proven that even prepared communities can be overwhelmed in a state of emergency. Our reports provide guidelines and targeted resources for all stakeholders in a disaster response, including state and local governments, emergency medical services and health care centers. Read these online for free.
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The Diversity of Life Across Much of Earth Has Plunged Below ‘Safe’ Levels

Sat, 2016-07-16 10:47 — Kathy Gilbeaux

An aerial view shows a tract of Amazon rain forest that has been cleared by loggers and farmers for agriculture near the city of Santarem, Para State, April 20, 2013. (Nacho Doce/Reuters)

CLICK HERE - STUDY - Science - Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

washingtonpost.com - by Chris Mooney - July 14, 2016

In an ambitious study that represents the latest merger between big data approaches and the quest to conserve the planet, scientists have found that across a majority of the Earth’s land surface — including some of its most important types of terrain and its most populous regions — the abundance or overall number of animals and plants of different species has fallen below a “safe” level identified by biologists.

The reason is not exactly a surprise — from grasslands to tropical forests, humans are using more and more land for agriculture, to live on, to build roads and infrastructure upon. When we take over, we clear the land or otherwise convert it for our purposes.

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Why we should care about the United Nations’ COP21

Tue, 2015-12-01 12:53 — Albert Gomez

Posted by Evelyn Perez × 11/30/2015 at 4:10 pm

From Nov. 30 — Dec. 11, delegates from 194 countries throughout the world will convene in France for the 21^st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This conference on climate change is expected to culminate with a new international agreement to mitigate climate change. FIU Law Senior Scholar Ryan Stoa and Journalism and Broadcasting Professor Juliet Pinto will be in attendance at the conference. In this op-ed, Tiffany Troxler, director of the FIU Sea Level Solutions Center, explains the importance of the international gathering.

Tiffany Troxler, director of the FIU Sea Level Solutions Center

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People's Climate March - South Florida - Downtown Miami

Tue, 2015-10-13 11:49 — Albert Gomez

Date:

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 05:00 to 08:00

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United States

31° 43' 41.4012" N, 148° 32' 6.5616" W

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Resilience in the SDGs: Developing an Indicator for Target 1.5 that is Fit for Purpose

Sat, 2015-10-10 11:45 — Kathy Gilbeaux

odi.org - Aditya Bahadur, Emma Lovell, Emily Wilkinson, Thomas Tanner - August 2015

CLICK HERE - Resilience in the SDGs - Developing an indicator for Target 1.5 that is fit for purpose (7 page .PDF file)

We outline a comprehensive approach for developing a cross-sectoral, multi-dimensional and dynamic understanding of resilience. This underpins the core message of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that development is multi-faceted and the achievement of many of the individual development goals is dependent on the accomplishment of other goals. It also acknowledges that shocks and stresses can reverse years of development gains and efforts to eradicate poverty by 2030. Crucially, this approach to understanding resilience draws on data that countries will collect for the SDGs anyway and entails only a small additional burden in this regard.

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