Hello,

If you're like us, you've spent the last several weeks spending a lot more time at home. And you also may have spent it doing more for yourself and for your family than you have before. Many of us in the West are fortunate enough to have the resources to help ourselves. But people in resource-scarce communities, who are already marginalized and vulnerable, have limited physicals means at their disposal. But if we help them build local assets like permagardens and rainwater catchments they can become more resilient, enabling them to better manage a crisis like a pandemic, flood, or drought.

This Friday, May 15th at noon (Pacific Standard Time), special guest speaker John MacLean will join us to look at climate change and resilience around the globe. John is the President of Energy Efficiency Finance Corporation, a former Adjunct Professor at Evergreen State University, and an expert in international financing for sustainable economies.