Please join us for hands-on, detailed workshops in emergency preparedness.
L2020 NPREP (Neighborhood Preparedness in Emergency Planning) Training Team, along with our friends at the Quimper Grange #720 are co-hosting a fall 2019 seven-week series in Emergency Preparedness. Sessions are ala carte; attend one, more than one or all of them!
Location: Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona, Port Townsend, WA
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Join us this Sunday for the 7th Annual All County Picnic
August 18th, 11AM-4PM, 2019
HJ Carroll Park – Jefferson County, WA
Preparedness, Resiliency and Family Fun
Presented by Local 20/20, Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management, and Thunderbull Productions
This years event features a robust line up of speakers and demonstrations, over 40 interactive booths, a whole … Read the rest
Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader published in the 6/5/19 edition (thank you, Leader!).
By Tom Engel.
Don’t know what to think about climate change? President Trump says “Something’s changing and it’ll change back again”. The UN says that Earth has 10 years to avert climate change catastrophe. Who should you believe? How … Read the rest
Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader published in the 5/9/19 edition, by David Thielk.
In January, and then again in November of 2018 (off tourist season), the City of Port Townsend engineering department collected traffic frequency and speed information from dozens of locations in Port Townsend. At each location, they sampled over a … Read the rest
Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader by Michael Pilarski.
On May 3-5, 2019, the Global Earth Repair Conference will bring the world together in Port Townsend. Six hundred people engaged in ecosystem restoration at local, regional, national and international levels in many parts of the world will meet at Fort Worden. Through keynotes, … Read the rest
There was a higher than average predicted tide on February 23rd (9.2′ predicted), that gave us another chance to visualize the higher sea levels that will become more often in the future due to global sea level rise, and a few of Local 20/20’s Climate Action Group volunteers were out there early in the morning to capture it. You can … Read the rest
Saturday, March 9th, 3 – 4:30pm
Come celebrate history at the Uptown Courtyard! A mixed-media mural will be installed on Saturday, March 9th at 1033 Lawrence Street. This collaborative artwork centers on a theme of beauty growing through community creativity. Adrianna Santiago and Suzanne Jones initiated this volunteer project through their cooperative organizing of the local Intergenerational Art Movement
Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader by Suzanne Jones and Judith Alexander.
Resiliency is a word that is increasingly on people’s minds. Over the last decade authors such as Charles Eisenstein, David Korten, and Margaret Wheatley have pointed to community resiliency as the best route to a stable future.
One element of resiliency … Read the rest
Here is Local 20/20’s latest Resilience Review column in the Port Townsend Leader (thank you, PT Leader!). It is copied below. Also note that you can find Local 20/20’s summary of the recent IPCC and 4th National Climate Assessment report here.
By David Seabrook.
Two significant reports from climate researchers were recently released outlining in detail the difficult challenge … Read the rest