Resilient Communities Resources
Resilient Community Resources
MODULE 1 - Climate Resilience
Background Reading and Resources
- Top ten ways to stop climate change
- 140 year heat map
- Shocking ice cap melt in Antarctic after record heat
- First recorded Antarctic heat wave
- Four climate tipping points the planet is facing
- Nine tipping points now active
- Climate emergency, world may have crossed tipping points
- Countries from Siberian to Australia are burning
- Arctic may have crossed key threshold
- More volcanic eruptions as the planet warms
- Current volcanic eruptions
- 25 myths about climate change
- Acidic Ocean dissolving crab shells
- Scientist narrow the expected heating from CO2 rise
MODULE 2 - Water Resilience
Background Reading and Resources
- SES Home Emergency Plan
- SES Get Ready NSW
- SES Flood resources
- SES Before a Flood know your risk
- Planning for a Flood Event - Bellingen Shire Council
- Bellingen Coastal Zone Management Study
- Bellingen Drought Management Plan 2012
- Bellingen Flood Risk Maps 2016
- Adapt NSW Eastern Seaboard Climate Change Initiative
- Understanding and adapting to Climate Change, NSW
- NSW Health Staying Healthy during and after Floods
- NSW Health Maintaining Health during and after floods and storms
- Get out of sinking car
- Sewerage and Storm Water
- Bellingen 2019, warmest and driest ever
- SES Tsunami Evacuation Map NSW
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology - Tsunami
- 1960 Tsunami Movie
- What to do in a Tsunami
- Water Footprint
- The Water Footprint Assessment Manual
- Water Saving Tips
MODULE 3 - Food Resilience
Background Reading and Resources
- UN Food and Agriculture Report 2020
- 1.8 C temperature rise on land
- How AI could feed the world
- Sustainable Food Manual
- Food shortage concerns in China
- Locust plague in Africa.
- 10 biggest threats
- Hungry caterpillar arrived in Australia.
- Farmers go beyond seeking to be sustainable to regenerate agriculture ecosystems
- Kiss the Ground - Movie
- Learning to love weeds
- The future of farming is human scale
- The need to grow movie
- Small scale organic only way to feed the world
- Food sovereignty
- Seed savers
MODULE 4 - Energy Resilience
Background Reading and Resources
- Big Oil's climate plans fail at every metric
- Australia's gas-led recovery likely to lead to stranded assets
- Fossil gas projects postponed in Australia represent an annual climate impact more than half of Australia's Annual Emissions
- Local Power Plan - Helen Haines MP Independent Federal Member for Indi. Australian Local Power Agency to deliver innovative schemes & establish 50 hubs in regional centres across Australia
- No Prime Minister gas doesn't work
- Microgrids and neighbourhood power sharing set to transform how we use energy
- Australian energy update
- Wind and Solar aren't to blame for soaring power prices
- Solar Cookers
- Instructions on how to build a solar cooker
MODULE 5 - Infrastructure and Economic Resilience
Background Reading and Resources
- Find in-depth information for over 300 local government areas and suburbs in Australia and New Zealand
- Bellingen Housing Strategy
- Families still homeless more than a month after destructive hailstorm
- New national emergency warning system
- Enhanced regulatory framework for Australia’s critical infrastructure
- Emergency NSW Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy 2018
- Australia ranks last among all OECD countries for manufacturing self-sufficiency
- Australia's electricity grid barely made it through last summer's extreme temperatures
- Climate change a $3 trillion threat to Australia's economy
- We're getting 100 claims an hour': Catastrophic Queensland storms leave homes unliveable as damage bill exceeds $110m
- Ignoring Climate Related Physical And Transition Risks Imperils Global Financial Stability
- Australian businesses halt exports to China due to trade dispute fears
- World’s Most Housing-Exposed Economy Faces Ultimate Stress Test
- ND-GAIN Country Index summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges in combination with its readiness to improve resilience
- After a rollercoaster 2020, there's finally some good news for Australia's economy
- International momentum towards net-zero carbon emissions is growing & Australia can't ignore it
- Time of reckoning': Loan deferrals falling but warnings worst to come
- The world's in a 'global liquidity trap'. What does that mean for Australia?
- Governments face trillion dollar debt from virus recession
- Australia’s fuel reserves
- Meet the doughnut: the new economic model that could help end inequality
- Gross National Happiness Index
- Thrive Global, building healthy habits
- The circular economy
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The Post Growth Institute
- The Institute for Economics & Peace
- Fractal Economy Cooperative
- Modern Slavery Declaration for products
- 395 Million New Jobs by 2030 if Businesses Prioritize Nature, Says World Economic Forum
- Letter from economists: to rebuild our world, we must end the carbon economy
- Modern Monetary Theory: How MMT is challenging the economic establishment
- What is quantitative easing?
MODULE 6 - Ecosystem Resilience and Fire
Background Reading and Resources
- Get Ready for a Bushfire
- Home Fire
- Protect what matters most
- Preventing a fire inside the home
- Bushfire Grassfire
- Bushfire Local Area Profiles
- Rainforests a 'significant concern' for global conservation group after bushfires
- UN Report Highlights How Conserving Biodiverse Areas Will Help Combat Climate Change
- Options for reducing house-losses during wildfires without clearing trees and shrubs
- The Plant Selection Key helps you choose plants for a garden in a high bushfire risk area
- Can a mulberry tree really help save a property from bushfire?
- Want a bushfire-smart garden?
- Bushfire Gardening
- NSW urges climate action as bushfire royal commission's recommendations tabled
- New work at the intersection of atmospheric science and ecology is finding that forests can influence rainfall and climate from across a continent.
- The science connecting wildfires to climate change
- Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change
- 3 billion animals killed or displaced in Black Summer bushfires, study estimates
- In for a roasting: Australia ‘on brink’ of ‘apocalyptic’ conditions
- Cutting Emissions Can Dramatically Curb Extinction
- Logging returns to NSW native forests hit by bushfires
MODULE 7 - Health Resilience
Background Reading and Resources
- Red Cross: Preparing for Emergencies
- Are you prepared for a heat wave?
- Smoke
- Well being after an emergency
- Infectious Disease
-
Recovering from an emergency
- Yes, allergy seasons are getting worse; blame climate change
- Grattan Institute - Climate Change and Health Report Dec 2020
- Leading causes of death
- Climate Change Could Reawaken Microbes of the Ancient Past
- 2020 one of three hottest years ever recorded: UN
- Global Health Is Already Suffering After the Hottest Decade on Record
- After 12 months and 1.3m deaths, what do we know about the origins of coronavirus
- Tackling Bellingen's coronavirus-induced housing affordability crisis
- Temperature extremes beyond anything on record
- Protecting nature is vital to escape 'era of pandemics’ – report
- Distress, depression and drug use: young people fear for their future after the bushfires
- Scientists are seeing an 'acceleration of pandemics.' They are looking at climate change
- Global temperatures to reach a level not seen in 50 MILLION years
- How climate change is spreading current diseases and could expose new epidemics
- This Map Reveals the World's Many, Many New and Re-Emerging Diseases
- African swine fever and Covid outbreaks among workers have raised questions over mega farms for pork