COMMUNITY

While climate change is global, its impacts are local. Historically, response to challenges in our communities have been addressed with a “fix it” response to a single issue or need. Today science, technology, data, new mapping tools, and the expanding field of regenerative design is giving us new ways to see connections, to help us visualize our communities as a “system of inter-relationship”.

Communities are strongest when their members are civically engaged in issues of shared public concern and work together to solve them. When they participate in the process of crafting a vision for their communities and then co-developing a plan to realize it, they invest in achieving shared benefits together.

We are planning a real-world Model Community with a university co-design team and leading advisors, using a systems approach to integrating solutions for interrelated needs. A digital display will serve as a showcase of solutions and innovations, access to facilitator training programs with resources for community managers community-based organizations, and citizens alike that can be shared when the Imagine Forward Campaign is launched.