SanCap Resilience seeks input from community
At its recent community event, SanCap Resilience announced the launch of its new “Neighbor to Neighbor” program. The goal of the program is for residents to share resilience lessons learned since Hurricane Ian and publish them in an anthology for the entire community’s benefit.
“We’ve all begun to become experts in areas we never thought we would,” group Chair Bob Moore said. “There’s a lot of knowledge in our community on different aspects of resiliency and sustainability. People have been sharing their experiences informally through Facebook and other sites, and we want to capture all that valuable information.”
SanCap Resilience has developed an online form to submit resilience practice examples. While the guidelines request that individuals address one topic per submission, people can make multiple submissions. The group is looking for details such as what was done, how it was done, how well it worked or did not work, materials used, how the materials were sourced and approximate costs. It also requests that individuals only include improvements they believe are compliant with building codes.
“We hope to hear from as many people as possible. People have taken a variety of actions to harden their homes against wind, make their homes more flood-resistant, improve their energy resilience and sustainability, plant more resilient landscapes … the list goes on and on,” Steering Committee Member Miriam Pepper said. “In early 2025, we’d like to take the reported resilience examples and use them to create a resiliency symposium where people can gather and exchange practical solutions. We’d also like to invite vendors so attendees can see examples of materials they may want to use for their future building and landscape improvements.”
To access the form, visit https://bit.ly/3Zeitwn.
To view sample submissions, visit https://bit.ly/3VhZuQr.
For more information, visit sancapresilience.org or SanCap Resilience on Facebook.