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  • Learning from storms past, a community plans together to prevent disasters

    Jhona Reyes Vitor

    January 09, 2024 |

    Rappler |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Malabon

    The community in Malabon, Philippines, worked with a nongovernmental organization to create a contingency plan for tropical storms. Tasks like search and rescue and resident relocation are divided between community leaders, and local input makes the plan more actionable and effective than a top-down approach.

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  • How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees

    Sadiqur Rahman

    December 07, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Young Power in Social Action helps families displaced by extreme weather, like hurricanes, by building weather-proof homes and helping those who lost their jobs find new work by providing them with goats or sewing machines to help them create a new livelihood. The group has already helped rehome eight families and plans to rehouse eight more families by April 2024.

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  • A Model for Disability Justice in Emergency Shelters

    Marianne Dhenin

    November 21, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Edison, New Jersey

    The Alliance Center for Independence (ACI) started working with people who have disabilities to create better disaster preparedness measures that consider disabilities, ensuring support and shelter are accessible to anyone and everyone. ACI held an overnight shelter simulation exercise that allowed them to practice each step of an emergency shelter response with people who have disabilities to identify any areas that could be improved. These simulations have become a model for other counties across the state, inspiring more shelters to make improvements to their accessibility.

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  • The case for collective disaster preparedness

    Colleen Hagerty

    November 16, 2023 |

    Hothouse 2.0 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Neighbors around the country are forming grassroots community groups to prepare for, and respond to, extreme weather and disasters. These groups organize aid and supplies, participate in reconstruction, and help others find shelter amidst the storms.

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  • Google DeepMind's weather AI can forecast extreme weather faster and more accurately

    Melissa Heikkilä

    November 14, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: United States

    An artificial intelligence model called GraphCast uses historical weather data to find patterns and make predictions about extreme weather events like hurricanes faster and more accurately than the current best methods.

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  • Babcock Ranch: Florida's first hurricane-proof town

    Lucy Sherriff

    September 04, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Babcock Ranch, Florida

    Florida’s Babcock Ranch survived Hurricane Ian relatively unscathed thanks to years of planning and development focused on resiliency. The community’s safety features include retaining ponds to prevent flooding, streets designed to absorb rain, a solar-powered gird with a backup-battery system, and buried power lines.

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  • A Community-Led Approach to Stopping Flooding Expands

    Maia McDonald Katrina Pham

    August 10, 2023 |

    Borderless Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Illinois

    The Center for Neighborhood Technology’s RainReady program is creating flood mitigation projects most suitable for Illinois communities in need by ensuring community members have input. The program designs nature-based solutions, like widening creeks and installing rain gardens, based on demographics and flood data. And community committees are involved throughout.

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  • How Resilience Hubs Can Help Communities Face The Heat And The Climate Emergency

    Erin Stone

    July 31, 2023 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Trusted and popular community buildings across Los Angeles are being retrofitted with solar panels and batteries, so they can also function as resilience hubs during extreme heatwaves or other disasters. This way, they provide helpful resources outside of disaster protection and people are more likely to use them.

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  • The Grassroots Movement That Built Puerto Rico's First Community-Owned Microgrid

    Katherine Rapin

    June 10, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Adjuntas

    The environmental nonprofit Casa Pueblo is installing solar panels and retrofitting buildings’ electrical systems to be off-grid in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Its work is helping to combat the blackouts and skyrocketing electricity prices that Puerto Ricans have faced since Hurricane Maria first damaged the grid in 2017.

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  • Bangladesh tests climate finance for disaster-hit communities

    Tahmid Zami

    May 30, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Several organizations provide financial support like green bonds and insurance to farmers in Bangladesh to help protect them from crop loss caused by climate change disasters.

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