The new California Adaptation Clearinghouse - to explore later - #CAF2018 #CAF18 #CAAdapts

"Resources [for hazard preparation] are not too few, they are too diffuse!" - James Gore, Sonoma County Supervisor, on the "Disaster Industrial Complex" that has set up shop in post-wildfire Sonoma. #CAF2018 #CAF18 #CAAdapts

Jose Gurrola, Mayor of City of Arvin (pop. ~20k, home to many farmworkers): "I think a lot of California looks more like Arvin than Sacramento." Need to take that into account in communication- remember to lead with local priorities. #CAF2028 #CAF18 #CAAdapts

“There is nothing ‘post’ in the trauma a lot of communities are experiencing,” says Theopia Jackson. #ClimateChange #CAF18

“What is the role of the scientist in uplifting the human spirit?” Grateful to hear from brilliant clinical psychologist Theopia Jackson on #ClimateChange & resilience for the second time in 2018. #CAF18

Jody London, Contra Costa County Sustainability Coordinator, points out in the session on infrastructure, climate, and equity that if the gas tax is repealed "local governments will be in free-fall." #CAF2018 #CAF18 #CAAdapts

"Paying it Forward," the report from the AB 2800 (Quirk) Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group, by S. Moser & J. Finzi Hart, is coming out next week with a webinar on Sept. 5 from 12-1pm. #CAF2018 #CAF18 #CAAdapts

Dave Ackerly (UC Berkeley), pointing to a photo of a man looking in a screen door from an SF Chron cover story on a heat wave: This is someone checking on an elderly person in a heat wave. "This is adaptation." #CAF2018 #CAF18

Gary Griggs (UC Santa Cruz) - If you care about climate change one thing you can do is VOTE. "If people make good decisions when they vote then we have a chance." #CAF2018 #CAF18 #CAadapts

Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu, speaking at Tribal Community Resilience session, points out that you can't just cherry pick traditional ecological knowledge, you have to give potentially affected tribes a seat at the table when projects begin. #CAF2018 #CAF18 #TEK

Teresa Romera, Coastal Chumash, at Tribal Community Resilience session, recommends TREX - training exchange facilitated by TNC that teaches cultural burning. #CAF2018 #CAF18 #TEK

Nick Tipon, Elder, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, in the Tribal Community Resilience session, talks about the role of "cultural fire" in interrupting oak pest & disease cycles to protect acorn harvest. Less smoke from cultural/rx'd fire than massive wildfire. #CAF18

At the start of every conf you get to learn about every other thing on Twitter w/your conference's hashtag. <waving> Hello to the 33rd Central Agency Fair (in Chinle, AZ/Navajo Nation, w/Powwow & Rodeo) from the California Adaptation Forum! #CAF2018 #CAF18

Settling in at Day 1 of the California Adaptation Forum in downtown Sacramento #CAF18 #CAadapts #climatechange #LGC