My report on "When Armageddon is Your Day Job: Coping Strategies" @ the National Adaptation Forum- w/links #NAF2017

Phila's Undergrnd Incident Wrking Grp stopped blame game, all utils guilty til prven innocent: good group to show future flood maps #NAF2017

2 infrastr. risk assessmts done for NYC: preSandy '11, then '15. Results classif'd, new '17 report will be partly public. #OneNYC #NAF2017

Q: how to take abstract belief into adapt'n axn? 1st study dec'n-making context, then elevate motivatn, reduce barriers- S. Moser #NAF2017

T. Potter: concept of hospice applies here, need to "hospice out" old ways of thinking/living, walk them out w/grief, compassion #NAF2017

Dr. O.Muhawesh refs Prophet Muhammad (pbuh): if it's Judgement Day & you have a seed in yr pocket, plant it #NAF2017

Learn abt the Evangelical Environmental Network's "Joseph Pledge," new book "Disaster Ministry" #NAF2017

"Tzedek tzedek tirdof" "Justice, justice you shall pursue, that you may live" (Deut.): Faith-based climate axn includes justice, x2 #NAF2017

Holy moly we need bigger room for min of 2 successive sessions to just begin covering #firstfoods & their importance to adaptation #NAF2017

M. Poe (UW): Salish #firstfoods restoration includes restoration of seed trading practices, cultural importance of food protocols #NAF2017

N. Crowe (Fond du Lac) on invasives: dandelion isn't fm here-"neither are a lot of you"-but gr-gma used it for medicine: adaptation #NAF2017

C. Shippentower (Umatilla): First Food promise: reciprocity w/ food source. "You take care of us, we take care of you" #firstfoods #NAF2017

J. Pardilla (Penobscot): adapt'n must consider: 60% of tribal members live away fm homeland; still culturally connected #firstfoods #NAF2017

Feeling overwhelmed? Come to "When Armageddon is Your Day Job: Coping Strategies" Wed 2:30PM, Rm 11 w/A Pairis, K Goodrich, S Moore #NAF2017

There is no shortcut to get around inequity. There is no technological solution for this.- Miya Yoshitoni, APEN @miya_yosh @APEN4EJ #NAF2017

Denise Pollock, AK Inst. for Justice, from Shishmaref: "we don't have words [in Inupiaq] for how ice is forming now." #NAF2017

There is no roadmap for this. There is no gov't agency w/mandate for this. - Robin Bronen, AK Inst for Justice, on Newtok relocatn #NAF2017

B-more's Ofc of Sustainability tells heat/flood-prone nbrhoods: build a kit, have a plan, help each other #NAF2017

Minneapolis will be most climate changed city in US after New Orleans. We already have Missouri's weather. - Mayor Betsy Hodges #NAF2017

NAF Day 1 opened w/blessing by Nikki Crowe, 13 Moons Program, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa #NAF2017

Adaptation planners- put on your calendar this Aug. 24-25 Cal Poly's CA Climate Action Planning Conference- #NAF2017

So proud of Dr. Kathy Mills for her honorable mention for the 2017 #ClimateAdaptation Leadership Award! #ClimateLeaders #NAF2017

Woohoo! City/County of SF wins ASAP 2017 Prize for Progress for its work incorporating #sealevelrise in capital planning! GO SF #NAF2017

I love a "first annual" anything. We are optimists here at the First Annual Member Meeting of ASAP #NAF2017

Ecoadapt: last yr Mexico had its 1st National Adaptation Forum. Canada planning one for 2019. North American 3-country forum due? #NAF2017

UNEP/Ecoadapt talk: Trumped US can learn from Harpered Canada: climate work decentralized, First Nations stepped up efforts. #NAF2017

Ecoadapt's R. Gregg on alternative cli ch terms: cli variability; weather variability; or if in NC: "big storms, really big storms" #naf2017

At the UNEP mtg hearing abt the new Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation, a Dutch gvt/UNEP project. #NAF2017

About to board my flight to MSP for the National Adaptation Forum, skimmed the program: 52 p.! It's grown! #NAF2017