Our Main Street communities are vulnerable to the impacts of #climatechange. 🌪 ⛈ 🏜 So we're honored to have contributed to Main Street America's new toolkit aimed at helping towns plan for, prepare for, and recover from natural #disasters. 💡 Talking about a looming crisis can be overwhelming and scary, causing people to back away rather than step forward. 💡And, even today, conversations that start with terms like “global warming" can be alienating—either because someone might not agree with the framing or they don’t want to step into what feels like a polarized space. 💡To make the kind of changes necessary for your community to thrive in the future means getting a variety of people on board with your process and plans. 💡💡💡Check out the tips Dr. Tiffany Manuel developed specifically for Main Street managers and other leaders of local commercial districts on pages 14 and 15 of the toolkit. 👇 And reach out to us if you want to talk about building will for actions that lead to thriving communities and planet. 🌍
September is Disaster Preparedness Month. As of June 2024, 68% of designated Main Street districts are within census tracts identified as climate vulnerable, and our research has found that 75% of the Main Street Network has experienced a major disaster in the past five years. To help Main Streets prepare for and respond to these risks, we created the Main Street Disaster and Resilience Toolkit. Developed in partnership with the National Park Service and others, this resource provides information to help communities understand local vulnerabilities, mitigate their impacts, and respond to events as they occur. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Xjm2k6
