ITRC PNW Transformational Resilience Network

Wildfires, floods, mudslides, earthquakes, tsunamis—the list of natural disasters that haunt Los Angeles reads like the 10 Plagues of Egypt. What’s more, the city’s size and diversity mean that different neighborhoods are vulnerable to different events, and because of the city’s level of inequality, some residents are much better equipped to handle disaster than others. In response to these challenges, last week the City of Los Angeles, in coordination with the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100...

Below is a summary of what the ITRC has been up to in the past few months: 1. Conference on Preparing People for Climate Change In California After a slow start on registrations, the Jan 24-25 conference in Oakland ended up being sold out. On a scale of 1-5 (with 5 being excellent and 1 being poor), the 95 evaluations we received (out of 140 attendees) average out at 4.65, which we consider to be excellent. Two people said the conference changed their lives (one emailed afterwards to say...

This Sunday Oprah talk about her new discovery of trauma-informed care on CBS's "60 Minutes" saying: "This story is so important to me and I believe to our culture that if I could dance on the tabletops right now to get people to pay attention to it, I would," Winfrey says. Here are promos: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oprah-winfrey-childhood-trauma-ptsd-60-minutes-report/ https://www.cbsnews.com/video/oprah-explores-life-changing-question-in-treating-childhood-trauma/ TIC is VITAL to help...

In Alertnet: February 24, 2018 By Ruben Cantu, program manager for community trauma, mental health and violence prevention at Prevention Institute , and ITRC Steering Committee Member Found at: https://www.alternet.org/environment/global-climate-change-causing-local-trauma-heres-how-two-communities- We must build resilient communities before disaster strikes. Communities around the globe are feeling the effects of climate change, from scorching heat waves and out-of-control wildfires to...

Brewer is a change strategist dedicated to ensuring a thriving global civilization exists 100 years from now—and he believes this is becoming less likely every year. There’s rising instability in our fragile and rapidly changing biosphere, he says, and society is unlikely to escape harm. During our discussion, Brewer cited a list of urgent crises including climate change, soil degradation , ocean acidification, and biodiversity loss alongside techno-social issues like the breakdown of trust...

Hello! I work for The Cadmus Group and am responsible for implementing our integrated sustainability and resilience policy. One area that I'm focusing on because of the importance of transformational resilience for all of our employees is identifying personal resilience indicators that I can work with my HR leadership to integrate into our performance measures. This will help encourage our employees to enhance their own resilience, ultimately enhancing the resilience and connectedness of...

Hello Bob, A few things. We are interested in participating in both initiatives (the statewide steering committee and the statewide policy group), if we can balance them with our other work demands. In the meantime, we want to share some information on other activities in which we are involved (Paloma mentioned these during the conference call today). Could you post these to the forum? Thanks so much! 1.There is a free showing of Demain (Tomorrow) and a panel discussion (with Carl Anthony,...

Health Implications of Climate Change: a Review of the Literature About the Perception of the Public and Health Professionals By Julia Hathaway & Edward W. Maibach Summary Through a systematic search of English language peer-reviewed studies, we assess how health professionals and the public, worldwide, perceive the health implications of climate change. Recent Findings Among health professionals, perception that climate change is harming health appears to be high, although selfassessed...

Please limit posts on this ITRC site to articles and stories directly related to: 1. The mental health and psycho-social-spiritual impacts of climate change, and 2. Methods for building individual psychological and collective psycho-social-spiritual resilience. Please do not post articles related to other dimensions of climate change as many sites exist elsewhere where they can be posted. Thanks! Bob Doppelt

It’s one of the most important questions of the 21st century: Will climate change provide the extra spark that pushes two otherwise peaceful nations into war? In the past half-decade, a growing body of research—spanning economics, political science, and ancient and modern history—has argued that it can and will. Historians have found temperature or rainfall change implicated in the fall of Rome and the many wars of the 17th century . A team of economists at UC Berkeley and Stanford...

Last fall, California's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) issued new guidelines for general plans , the documents created by the state's cities and counties to guide their future development. For the first time, the OPR guidelines include specific recommendations for how local general plans could address health, equitable development, and public engagement. ChangeLab Solutions, with many statewide partner organizations, helped drive this innovation by submitting a detailed set of...

Each year the ITRC offers a series of free 1 hour introductory webinars on different aspects of building individual psychological and collective psycho-social-spiritual resilience for climate impacts. The list of the Spring 2018 free webinars along with links to register can be found here: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/?SSScrollPosition=164 Please pass this around to others that might be interested!