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Join us for our events coming up in March 2015!
MARCH 25 | WEDNESDAY Film Screening: Cant Stop the Water
Discussion with director, Rebecca Ferris, and documentary
participants from Isle de Jean Charles: Chief Albert Naquin and
Brunet family
Location Indywood Cinema 628 Elysian Fields Ave, New Orleans, LA
70117
6pm Registration and Happy Hour
630pm Screening
730pm Introduction by LT. Gen Russel Honor
Q&A with Director Rebecca Ferris, Chief Albert Naquin and
the Brunet family
MARCH 26 | THURSDAY Ten Years Strong Building Deeper Connections
in the Community: Resilient Merchants Walk and Learn in Mid-City
This evening discussion invites three prominent Mid-City business
owners to discuss how they have made positive changes to their
continuity planning and resilience collaborations. Attendees will
meet at the Gulf Coast Bank for an introduction and happy hour to
begin our talk. We will walk to Angelo Brocatos Italian Ice Cream
and Pastry, where we will discuss how this staple of New Orleans
weathered the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to reopen less than
one month later, and helped Mid-City bounce back. Finally, we will
complete our tour at Masseys and discuss the Lafitte Greenway and
its anticipated positive effect on the business. We invite
community members, organizers, business owners, and small business
resilience experts to join us as we walk and talk.
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This free event is coordinated in partnership with Mark Strella
of StayLocal, and Deborah Mills of Dewberry. Walking Shoes
recommended. Sponsored by Mid-City Business Association
Location Gulf Coast Bank 201 N Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, LA
70119
6 8pm Happy Hour, Tour, and Discussion
MARCH 27 | FRIDAY Resilient Nonprofit Tour This tour will
feature stops at local community organizations and engage leaders
openly regarding their role in the community, their sustainable
programming, and their impact on the Greater New Orleans area.
Location Meeting location will be communicated to
participants
9am Shuttle pick up in downtown New Orleans
1 Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and
Development (www.sustainthenine.org)
2 Global Green Holy Cross Project
(www.globalgreen.org/articles/global/68)
3 Common Ground Relief Wetlands Restoration
(www.commongroundrelief.org/wetlands)
4 St. Bernard Project (www.stbernardproject.org)
230pm Drop off in Central Business District Please join us for a
happy hour and discussion
immediately following the tour!
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MARCH 28 | SATURDAY All Day Workshop
Location Arlene Meraux River Observation Center 5124 E St.
Bernard Hwy, Violet, LA 70092
8am Registration Opens
Coffee and Breakfast Resilience Photo Gallery and Community
Exhibitors
840am Introduction: Executive Committee | batteur room
Lauren Butner Kali Rapp Roy Jeana Wiser
850am Icebreaker Session: Defining Resilience | batteur room
930am Keynote Speakers | batteur room Jeff Hebert, Chief
Resilience Officer, City of New Orleans
1015am How Will Our Plans Work Together? | batteur room
This panel will feature discussions about the key
environmental/development plans that are currently being
implemented for the region. It will explore ways to create bridges
among the plans and invites key responsible officials to discuss
how to ensure an integrated and fluid system of resilience for our
region. This panel will highlight important aspects of the plans
including key players and communication of change to their
constituents.
Keven Lovetro, Chief of Flood Risk Management Section, New
Orleans Branch, US Army Corps of Engineers
Robert Rivers, Executive Director, New Orleans City Planning
Commission
Dale Thayer, Director of Community Development, St. Bernard
Parish
David Waggonner, Architect, Waggonner & Ball Architects:
Urban Water Plan
Moderator: Grasshopper Mendoza, Co-Founder, Horizon
Initiative Water Committee
1115am Break
1130am Concurrent Sessions I Weather the Storm: Building Strong
Networks through
Resource Collaboration | second flood classroom This panel
invites players from networks of different
scales to share their lessons learned and best practices to
build better communication and resistance to hazards.
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Members of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association Resilient
Neighbors Network from the Shenandoah Valley (Virginia) and Tulsa
(Oklahoma) are collaborating within their communities to bridge
gaps in service provision and prevent redundancy in programming to
mitigate disasters. In the Gulf South, frontline communities are
collaborating to seed a 2015 regional movement, #GulfSouthRising,
toward equity through coordinated actions and events. In New
Orleans, various water-focused organizations have joined the New
Orleans Water Collaborative to discuss emerging water management
opportunities and foster collaboration among their members.
Colette Pichon Battle, Director/Attorney, Gulf Coast
Center for Law & Policy; #GulfSouthRising Rebecca Joyce,
Central Shenandoah Planning District
Commission Tim Lovell, Executive Director, Tulsa Partners Keith
Twitchell, Committee for a Better New Orleans;
NOLA Water Collaborative Moderator: Alessandra Jerolleman,
Executive Director,
Natural Hazard Mitigation Association --- Working Together:
Government Resilience Among
Coastal Parishes | batteur room This panel features officials
from Plaquemines, Orleans,
and Jefferson Parishes to discuss how they, ten years after
Hurricane Katrina, have strengthened their resilience not only
within their own emergency and disaster mitigation management
plans, but also have provided partnership to each other.
Nick Cali, Executive Director, Lake Borgne Basin Levee
District Michelle Gonzales, Director, Jefferson Parish
Department
of Floodplain Management and Hazard Mitigation Dev Jani,
Planning Section Chief, New Orleans
Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness
Moderator: Dexter Accardo, Director, St. Tammany Parish
Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness
1230pm Lunch | barn Gary Granata, Chef, President of Slow Food
New Orleans
130pm Keynote Speaker | batteur room Luisa Dantas, Land of
Opportunity Multimedia Platform
210pm Concurrent Sessions II Resilience in the Community
Showcase: Evolving Efforts
Since Hurricane Katrina | second floor classroom
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Evolution is the process in which resilience blossoms
within a community. In the Greater New Orleans area, hundreds of
organizations were created out of the great needs that engaged
citizens sought to fill in the city and region after Hurricane
Katrina. Today, several of these organizations have grown robustly,
some beyond their initial mission, and have widely extended their
services. This panel features representatives of a few of those
organizations that stand out in their commitment to resilient
communities and building back stronger.
Craig Colten, Director of Human Dimensions, The Water
Institute of the Gulf Arthur Johnson, Director, The Lower 9th
Ward Center for
Sustainable Engagement and Development Karen KG Marshall,
Executive Director, Kids Rethink New
Orleans Schools Liz McCartney, Co-Founder, St. Bernard Project
David Morris, Executive Director, evacuteer.org Moderator: Charles
Allen, Former Director, The Lower 9th
Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development
--- Through the Lens: Telling Important Stories, Inspiring
Conversations, Building Community Resilience | batteur room
Multimedia and other creative outlets serve as dynamic
platforms to tell important stories, reach new audiences, and
inspire discourse. For the Gulf South region and other communities
navigating water, land, and climate change issues, the ideas of
community resilience are often best explored at a local level and
through a creative lens. This panel features filmmakers,
storytellers, and artists who use the creative lens to tell stories
of resilience, recovery, and community determination.
Garrett Bradley, Filmmaker, Cover Me; Below Dreams Luisa Dantas,
Filmmaker, Land of Opportunity Interactive
Media Platform Rebecca Ferris, Filmmaker, Cant Stop the Water;
Cottage
Films Nailah Jefferson, Filmmaker, Vanishing Pearls Moderator:
Rebecca Snedeker, Author, Unfathomable
City; Producer, Land of Opportunity Interactive Media
Platform
315pm Break
330pm Concurrent Sessions III
Louisiana and Alaska: Turning Crisis into Resilience
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through Intensive Community Collaboration | second floor
classroom
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the BP Oil Spill,
members of oiled Louisiana communities who were mentored by
Alaskan oiled communities assess how their association and visits
that built close relationships helped Louisiana communities cope,
recover, and commit to enhancing oil exploration safety.
Mayor Tim Kerner, Town of Jean Lafitte, Jefferson Parish May
Nguyen, Community Outreach Director, Tulane
Environmental Law Clinic Evan Ponder, Board Member, Lowlander
Center Linda Robinson (Ret.), Prince William Sound Citizens
Advisory Council (via Skype) Moderator: Rosina Philippe, Grand
Bayou Atakapa-Ishak,
Plaquemines Parish --- How Are We Preparing Local Future
Resilience
Professionals? | batteur room The regions educational
programming in disaster and
opportunities that tackle resilience in the community are
growing stronger. Both private and public institutions are lending
resources to ensure a more resilient future through practical
educational programs.
Jeff Carney, Director, LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio Andrea
Chen, Executive Director, Propeller; The Water
Challenge Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on Water
Resources
Law & Policy Monica Farris, Director, University of New
Orleans Center
for Hazards Assessment Response and Technology (UNO-CHART)
Moderator: Shirley Laska, Founder of UNO-CHART; Co-
Founder of the Lowlander Center
440pm Board of Advisors | barn The Building Resilience Workshop
VI presents its Board of
Advisors to discuss the workshops highlights and action items
based on the lessons we have learned from our participants and
speakers. We will hear from the Board on their achievements and
future goals, and explore the path of embedding solutions into our
communities in order to continue building resilience in coastal
Louisiana and around the world.
530pm Closing Notes | barn
545pm Reception | barn
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MARCH 31 | TUESDAY BRW Presents: Water Competition Showcase
Featuring panelists from: Changing Course Competition, Water
Challenge, Tulane University Dead Zone Prize In New Orleans and the
Louisiana Coast, we are seeing an increase in the challenges to
antiquated processes of how we work with our greatest challenge:
water. This panel brings together the representatives from the
Changing Course design competition, the Water Challenge, and the
upcoming Tulane University Dead Zone Prize competition, each in
their various developing stages, to demonstrate the importance of
entrepreneurship in addressing our regions water issues and the
type of entrepreneurs they seek to encourage to develop sustainable
solutions to their goals. The overarching goal of the panel is to
educate potential entrepreneurs, stakeholders, and those generally
interested in water solutions to understand better what goes into
creating these prize contests, the organizations expectations, and
their potential goals for each competition depending on the stage
of development. Please register here:
http://www.gopropeller.org/events/1011
Location Propeller 4035 Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA
70125
6pm Registration and Happy Hour
715pm Presentations
Richard Aubry, Professor of Practice of Business and
Sociology; Assistant Provost for Civic Engagement and Social
Entrepreneurship, Tulane University
Andrea Chen, Executive Director, Propeller; The Water
Challenge
Steve Cochran, Director, Mississippi River Delta Campaign;
Environmental Defense Fund
Moderator: Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on
Water Resources Law & Policy
8pm Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A