By Sheila Murray
It is near impossible to sum up our Lighthouse Project in the few short lines of an ‘elevator pitch.’ We could say that our pilot sites in Brampton, Toronto and Hamilton are working to create community resilience hubs or local resilience networks as a response to extreme weather events. But while most of us know what’s meant by extreme weather, how many have studied future climate projections and share our concerns about the increasing local extremes they will unleash? Once that’s understood, there are more questions: “What is community resilience?” for instance, or, “How is a resilience hub different from a resilience network?” And when we include the other essential pieces of our work, such as emergency preparedness, asset based community development (ABCD), the enormous potential offered by faith based organizations, or the power of bonded, linked and bridged social capital, it can all start to sound like jargon and dreaming.
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