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Check out these webinars, workshops, classes, and videos that explain more about various climate resilience methods we can implement in Stockton.
From the Partners
The Climate Center
There is a wave of state and federal funding on its way to fund local clean energy resiliency projects. This workshop series will enable and empower local communities to take advantage of these upcoming opportunities. You can’t afford to wait to take action!
Format: A virtual community of practice workshop series
Best suited for: Sustainability staff at local governments and agencies and community-based organizations
Activities: Faculty will lead participants step-by-step through PECI’s award-winning Community Energy Resilience Toolkit to methodically identify and advance clean, local, and reliable energy projects.
Goals: Every participant will identify feasible and fundable projects that meet community and funders’ objectives, and develop a strong, self-sustaining community of practice with like-minded peers.
Cost: Free to elected officials, staff, community leaders, environmental justice organizations.
Greenlining Institute
Making Equity Real in Climate Adaptation and Community Resilience Policies and Programs: A Guidebook
California is a leader in climate policy and has modeled an unprecedented statewide effort to fight climate change. However, climate change impacts do not affect all communities in the same way. Frontline communities including low-income communities, communities of color, indigenous peoples and tribal nations, and immigrant communities suffer first and worst from climate disasters. This is due to decades of underinvestment and unjust systems that have left these communities with disproportionately high costs for energy, transportation and basic necessities, limited access to public services, high levels of poverty and pollution, and outdated and weak critical infrastructure.
Climate change exacerbates these injustices that frontline communities face, making climate adaptation and community resilience essential priorities. Strategies to tackle climate change must prioritize the most impacted and least resourced communities. California must develop programs and policies that truly center social equity in climate adaptation efforts and uplift frontline communities so that they do not simply “bounce back” to the unjust status quo after climate disasters strike but are able to “bounce forward” as healthy, resilient and sustainable communities.
Other Resources
California Natural Resources Agency
Visit the California Natural Resources Agency YouTube page for webinars, workshops, and more.
Environmental and energy Study Institute
Stay up to date on EESI’s latest podcasts on community climate resilience.