Community Resilience in an Era of Upheaval

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 3:00pm EST
Webinars

Contributors to The Community Resilience Reader Daniel Lerch, Rebecca Wodder, and Richard Heinberg, presented on the six foundations for community resilience. Daniel Lerch, Education and Publications Director for the Post Carbon Institute, provided an explanation of the framework and theme of the resilience reader. Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow of Post Carbon institute, illustrated the state of our multiple sustainability crises. Rebecca Wodder, Chair of the Board of River Network, shared examples of resilient systems that better address issues of water at the community level. 

 

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Participants

Richard Heinberg

Richard Heinberg is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost educators on the need to transition away from fossil fuels. He is the author of thirteen books, including seminal works on society’s sustainability crisis, The Party’s Over: Oil, War & the Fate of Industrial Societies and The End of Growth: Adapting the Our New Economic Reality.

Rebecca Wodder | Island Press

Rebecca Wodder

Rebecca Wodder is a nationally known environmental leader whose conservation career began with the first Earth Day. As president of the national advocacy organization American Rivers from 1995 to 2011, she led the development of community-based solutions to freshwater challenges. From 2011 to 2013, she served as senior advisor to the US secretary of the interior. Previously, she was vice president of the Wilderness Society and legislative assistant to Senator Gaylord Nelson. In 2010, she was named a Top 25 Outstanding Conservationist by Outdoor Life magazine.
Daniel Lerch | An Island Press Author

Daniel Lerch

Daniel Lerch is Publications Director of Post Carbon Institute, serving as lead editor and manager of the Institute’s books and reports. He is the author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty (2007)—the first major local government guidebook on the end of cheap oil—and was the founding chair of the Sustainable Communities Division of the American Planning Association and a founding co-director of The City Repair Project.