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I, the 2 people at my table, & the next 3 people I ran into after the "Investing in Resilience" panel just now at #CAF2018 -all abuzz abt Kat Taylor- "we need universal basic assets not just universal basic income" -most inspirational spkr of conf! @BeneficialState @tomkat_ranch
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In response to the q, should we scare people or not? CSU Chico's Mark Stemen: TELL STORIES. BE HONEST. Write "dispatches from the future," set a marker (a successful adaptation) and draw a path back to now. #climatetrauma #scicomm #clicomm #CAF2018
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ICYMI: The Caltrans Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for District 4 (SF Bay Area), the first of twelve assessments, was published in late Dec. 2017. #CAF2018
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City of Sacramento sited new homes in high risk flood plain in Natomas, but State of California will bear the cost of the flood damage (that will invariably happen). State had no say in City home siting decision. - Dave Jones, CA Insurance Cxr #CAF2018
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Advice for homeowners preparing for disaster from CA Ins. Cxr Dave Jones: (1) Ask your insurer for replacement cost estimate, (2) Ask reputable contractor for same, (3) Insure 125-150% above b/c of post-disaster demand surge, (4) Do home inventory (send video-> cloud). #CAF2018
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CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones points to a report released by his office in Jan. 2018 about insurance pricing in the wildland-urban interface, summarizing: "It's not good news." #CAF2018
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"What if all public employees committed 20 hrs/year to learning about disaster preparedness? It would not only prepare them for a potential role in disaster response but create a culture of preparedness." - Chris Godley, Interim Mgr, Sonoma Co. Fire & Emergency Services #CAF2018
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Great to hear from @aghenis on ableist tendencies in the climate and environment movement, and how to counteract. #CAF2018
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Hardening homes, like using cheap, available technologies to keep embers from being sucked into your HVAC, creating defensible space, and getting sufficiently insured are things homeowners can do to prepare for wildfire. #CAF2018
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Michael Gossman of the new Sonoma County Office of Recovery and Resiliency says - the fire came on Sunday, but "we had a lot of Saturday problems," including insufficient housing. Need to prepare for extremes AND address preexisting problems. #CAF2018
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Sonoma County in its usual innovative way has created a new "Office of Recovery and Resiliency" #CAF2018
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"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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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Sonya Ziaja (CPUC) points to a new toolkit - the Adaptation Capability Advancement Toolkit (Adapt-CA) created as part of CA's Fourth Climate Change Assessment by ARCCA with the Local Government Commission, ICF International, and Susanne Moser. #CAF2018
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Dan Cayan (Scripps) presenting a summary of the 4th California Climate Change Assessment says precipitation change is relatively uncertain, but it looks like we'll have a shorter, wetter rainy season & drier spring. #CAF2018
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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
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