Building Home + Future
We would do whatever it takes to keep our families and communities safe. More than that, we strive for those we love to have good food, good health, caring friends, and a strong roof over their heads. In the face of climate-fueled storms, fires and heat waves – and with the reality of new threats like rising prices and ICE raids – we must rely on and learn from each others to persevere. People who have had to leave their homes and relocate to new places offer hope and bring with them skills, creativity, courage, and so much more.
With this new narrative campaign, “Building Home + Future,” The Solutions Project and our partners honor the climate solutions that come hand in hand with migration and showcase what a diverse, thriving future could look like.
For decades, frontline communities have grown climate solutions rooted in the immigrant experience – like vertical gardens, resilience hubs, and more efficient city planning – that make the communities we share here, stronger. Climate disaster has also forced people to move within the United States. Whether we consider the large-scale displacement of Black people from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina or more recent climate gentrification in places like Miami, the climate crisis hits at home.
We can keep each other safe, find home, and build our futures, together.
Photo Credit: PODER SF
People across the country and from all walks of life, are building shared homes grounded in abundance and care, and not in reaction to scarcity. They show us all how to find futures and safe havens that strengthen our communities for the long-haul.
We invite other organizations, creators, and community members to join us. Taking place the first week of November, during this campaign we will:
We all share a responsibility to ensure each other’s safety and the protection of the planet. Frontline communities have already weathered through many severe political and real storms, and have important knowledge to share with others about bringing the community together and taking care of each other during disaster moments. There is so much wisdom that exists that can be exchanged to help one another prepare.
Here are some select resources by partners about short term and long term recovery efforts around climate disasters.
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Scaling Up Community Resilience to Climate Disasters
Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Unbound Philanthropy, The Solutions Project
Burdens and Blessings: Intersectional Statistics & Stories of Black Women and Energy Justice
The Chisholm Legacy Project
Know Your Rights During Disasters: Fema & Immigration Enforcement
Just Solutions, NPNA, National Immigration Law Center, Organizing Resilience, HCIR, Protect Immigrant Families, Texas Appleseed, NLIHC
