Revealing Relationships: Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness Webinar

REVEALING RELATIONSHIPS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Wildfires are more common and more severe in Alaska, Montana and the Pacific Northwest then they used to be. One reason is Climate Change. Loss of sea ice, melting permafrost, and sea level changes are already requiring Indigenous Alaskan communities to relocate. The cause is Climate Change. February 2020 flooding in Umatilla, OR and Walla Walla, WA counties was the most severe on record, and the frequency is increasing. Why?

Join a stellar panel of experts and advocates to discuss the intersections of Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness as it is experienced today, right here in our part of the world

• WHEN: Saturday, September 26, 2020, 10:00-11:30 a.m. PDT (9:00 a.m. ADT and 11:00 a.m. MDT)
  • • • • • • • PANEL: Rev. Charles Brower, Retired, Community United Methodist Church in Nome, Alaska, Iñupiaq Hunter, Native Boarding School Survivor
                Solomon Duke, Student, Western Washington University, Climate Activist Working with  both the public and Portland City Officials regarding Diesel Air Pollution, the Portland Zenith Energy Tar Sand Expansion, Portland Public Schools Climate Literacy Curriculum. and issues of the Portland Tree Canopy Health.
                Dr. Rev. Barbara Rossing, Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. Lutherans Restoring Creation
                Rev. Dave Brauer-Rieke, ELCA Region 1 Disaster Preparedness and Response  – Webinar Moderator