NEW Upcoming Webinar Series
Weathering Change: Local Solutions for Strong
Communities
The webinar series, Weathering Change: Local Solutions for Strong Communities, is
presented by Antioch University New England, in partnership with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
View our full webinar series schedule, along with past webinar recordings here: (insert
link to bottom)
Contact Christa Daniels, AICP for questions at cdaniels1@antioch.edu
Thursday, October 16, 2014
12:00 – 1:15 PM EST
Resilient Design: Transitioning to the New Built Environment
Presenter: Alex Wilson, Founder, BuildingGreen Inc. and Resilient Design Institute
AICP Credit Pending
In this webinar, Alex Wilson will provide context for why we need to be considering
resilience in looking at the built environment during the coming decades. He will give an
overview of practical measures that can be implemented today to create more resilient
buildings and communities. These measures include:
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improvements to the energy performance of building envelopes (ensuring that
buildings will maintain habitable temperatures if they lose power)
flood-proofing strategies
enhancing wind resistance
providing access to water, and
providing access to some electricity in the event of an extended power outage
VIDEO HERE)
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Thursday, November 13, 2014
12:00 – 1:15 PM EST
Assessing Vulnerability of Water Conveyance Infrastructure from a Changing
Climate in the Context of a Changing Landscape
Presenter: Michael Simpson, Co-Director, Antioch Center for Climate Preparedness and
Community Resilience; Chair, Department of Environmental Studies
AICP Credit Pending
This webinar will present how to assess the vulnerability of a community’s road
crossings and storm water systems to increased run-off events. The approaches presented
here has been tested and refined from applied research over the last ten years, which in
part was funded by NOAA and US EPA, and carried out for communities from rural,
peri-urban and urban watersheds in New England and the upper Midwest.
An assessment protocol to target specific vulnerable location within a community due to
increases in run-off is the main focus of this webinar. How to identify catchments at risk,
as well as determine what would be needed to build peak-flow capacity into the storm
water system will be covered. Once the vulnerable locations are known, a prioritization
approach to determine which road crossings are deemed the most vulnerable is the next
step in the protocol. This will be followed by specific strategies to mitigate the future
impact of increased run-off, as well as discussion of avoiding maladaptive approaches.
Finally, marginal cost and avoided damage costs analyses will be introduced as an
important step to be done in conjunction with any storm water vulnerability assessment.
VIDEO HERE
Thursday, January 29, 2015
12:00 – 1:15 PM EST
Green Infrastructure and Flood Resiliency-Land Use Management as an
Adaptation Strategy in the Built Environment
Presenter: Dr. Rob Roseen, Associate at Geosyntec Consultants in Portsmouth, NH
AICP Credit Pending
This webinar addresses assessment, planning, and adaptation to not only better prepare
for the next emergency, but to sustainably manage flooding, and stormwater to maintain
human health and a vibrant local economy. Participants will leave this webinar with
knowledge about the latest innovative approaches to understand the effects of inland
flooding and apply low-impact development (LID), site design, and smart growth
practices at different scales of implementation. There will be reference to pioneering
hydrology-based, sub-watershed approaches that have shown mitigation potential not
only for storm water and flooding, but to the loss and degradation in water quality.
REGISTER HERE
Thursday, February 26, 2015
12:00 – 1:15 PM EST
Collaborating for Resilience
Presenters: Sarika Tandon, Senior Program Associate, Center for Whole Communities
Veda Truesdale, Senior Research Specialist, Rutgers University
The challenging impacts of climate change disproportionately affect those with the least
resources to prepare, sustain and recover. How do municipal decision makers and civic
leaders promote effective engagement with all community members, especially those that
are likely to be most impacted? This webinar will cover:
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Concrete community engagement and climate change preparedness success
stories;
What approaches to engagement are effective in reaching historically
marginalized populations
How municipal decision makers and staff can work effectively with communitybased organizations.
Thursday, March 2015 – DATE TBA
12:00- 1:15 PM EST
Getting the Message Out
Presenter: TBA
This webinar will cover how we can connect the dots for people in our communities
about climate impacts. It will build participants’ skills in targeting communication
strategies and messaging to effectively engage and strengthen community support.
Participants will learn language to include and avoid while talking about climate change,
how to frame messages on climate mitigation and adaptation, along with identifying
community values and interests in order to connect with mainstream Americans.
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