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>> This is how we communicate climate change all we're marching this is from the i.p.c.c. front page we're marching into communities and asking them to make life decisions with this in many communities in my town in Louisiana were marching in with maps colored in red and asking them to make decisions like that that's not how the human brain works.

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Ok sorry. The human brain works like this we are making decisions accessing both halves of the brain the logic linear data side as well as the anecdotal and emotional and memory side and both halves of the brain are activated when remaking decisions neuroscientists are are studying us and yet when we so we're losing all the opportunities to access the lived daily life experiences of climate change in order to make better decisions and when you think about it.

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Erica when you think about it this is a very ancient thing to do to mix data and story this is the Madrid Codex I was actually going to be a researcher I was on an academic track in college I spent 2 years of my life studying this manuscript that documents planting cycles and rain cycles and has astronomical tables that are more accurate than Kepler's and they did it by pairing that data with stories to understand how history and social upheaval and violence related to their every day whether experiences and we've lost that.

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I've gone you can do this. I've traveled all around the world I spent 15 years as a global science climate change reporter I covered Hurricane Katrina and Asian tsunami the same year. And over and over and over again you see the same mistakes being made which is that traditional data models the things that are used by engineers and scientists and city planners and insurers fail to be specific enough and granular enough to inform adaptation decisions at a block by block level when we miss community voice and we miss community context we miss opportunities to get it right make the solutions more targeted more effective more efficient but most importantly more trusted.

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So i See Change begins with individuals. Like destiny in New Orleans and grows into communities cow investigating their environment together. And Cohen forming solutions with their local leaders. So this is what happens when you get everybody together to make a flood map to understand a 2 year storm event which is really really difficult to model.

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We've made data maps that are more after it than hypothetical data models in multi-million $1.00 funded infrastructure projects and we do that with just combining the very simple act of a story what are you seeing change what's your photo What's your question along with type or specific data how much rainfall did you get how high was the flooding my combining the qualitative and the quantitative we can actually produce.

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Really really essential and crucial information so not only was this place flooding 1st and draining last but people couldn't have their kids play in their yard busses stop working trash start getting picked up and there's so much pollution that people don't feel safe. The information from. From the from the flood models did not highlight this places of worth including in the green infrastructure projects for the neighborhood until the city in the engineer saw the icy change data and they started modeling and including as best they could.

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It's not just about the data it's about how we respond to stress so we're kind of collecting information about how people are adapting to this over time and working with their neighbors this is a classic. Put a sticker on a map where the flooding exercises and it is typical of a public meeting you all can be here today at 4 o'clock and I am so grateful you're with me but most people who are impacted by weather and climate don't have time to come to lectures they don't have time to go to workshops they don't have time to sit with you want to Saturday afternoon they got jobs they got kids they got real lives so this is what our engineering partners in Gentilly were able to gather from you know people coming in to a workshop and this was our database McQuay able to quadruple the amount of data typically collected in an engagement for its public engagement efforts and not only that when the engineers were curious about what was going on in the model we were able to show them pictures like this this is back flow.

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The engineers were able to use this as evidence to focus their efforts in different areas of the project. Across Florida across to my projects we've contributed up to 4 design decisions. That have saved up to $600000.00 in redesign fees is another example where the model is not picking up flooding that is happening further east and further south.

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And this is a person who didn't come to a meeting this is a person telling us about flooding that is really really concerning to them. And we went from being a nice to have kind of going to feel good like let the community have its voice to being an essential service because we could prove that the data that the community was providing in real time in historic the historical data for real events mattered for their designs.

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We expanded our sea change citywide with this Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. My flight a lot lately. We've been having recurring 100 year storm events in space is a 4 to 8 weeks. And it's starting to be a conversation of not just where is the infrastructure solution but is it safe to drive in summer that's a 2 year storm of.

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That means and that 50 percent chance of happening in a given year it's not just when you understand your risk you can actually have impact it's not just it's dangerous but understanding what kinds of conditions cause what kinds of problems can actually lower a community insurance rates so we're working with the city on that but more importantly we're trying to help people understand what the limits are of infrastructure.

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We spent $700000000.00 on a major infrastructure project it was designed for a 10 year storm of that but we're getting these 100 year storm of them it's right so how do we design social solutions not just engineering ones. We don't are just fighting we are trying to reinvent climate communication period when people see things and I see change we send out text messages asking other people to if they sought to try to amplify the signal and create connection these are students using a sea change and in Florida we're actually one of the more popular citizen science apps we don't call ourselves that we just call this being a 21st century citizen.

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And it is truly powerful when you start to get trans intergenerational knowledge creation where we are working across in communities who are dealing with both sea level rise and rainfall and the combined effects of both this is him to New Hampshire we have a very active Camino Ocean City New Jersey and we're launching in Miami next this year.

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And we're really excited about that work to do flooding and equity work. So why i See Change versus like a Twitter has for climate communication is nuanced we've been struggling with it from day one so why would we think that using a traditional social media platform is the appropriate place to have these dialogues they can be pretty toxic.

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And we have found that our community is actually quite positive an impact oriented. Well. I put this in a couple slides that might be relevant to Atlanteans I know ya'll are sitting in the forest but the systems in which our trees are thriving are changing and this is a person who flagged trees that she never saw falling down before after living in a neighborhood for many decades this is a triple threat.

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When you have dried trees dealing with Santa Ana winds and an urban interface that is a very dangerous situation a month later l.a. had one of its biggest fires on record. And we it's not just about. Emergency Preparedness it's also about the cumulative experience as arc environment changes there is trauma associated with that and our users tell us that they feel better over time sharing their stories organizing the chaos making it feel manageable and actionable and so we're really zeroing in on how the platform can be of service in that space with stress.

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I want to kind of touch briefly on a project that we're been working on with Georgia Tech since we are here. It's pretty hot sometimes in Atlanta I thought was bad in New Orleans but we're not anywhere close from the bottom compared to y'all urban he urban heat.

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Is really dangerous we don't talk about it enough if you think about heat at the level of the body the way climate change is affecting the Earth every single one of your systems is impacted by heat your circulation your breathing certain medications don't work at certain temperatures if you're predisposed to any kind of medical condition earing heat wave your risk.

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It's really hard to track because especially in the south we think we have to be resilient to heat like it's kind of like a wall is what it's like and we all assume we have AC but there is definitely segments of our population that are feeling the heat in ways that are very dangerous We also understand that urban he aligns with redlining and historical environmental racism I do like to point out that the environment is it itself is not inherently racist but the structures that we build around it are.

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And when we do see is a compounding of health impacts in these neighborhoods alongside urban heat that particular neighborhood right there is the place that does mean lives and where we have an active project. And it's not just communities of color it's anybody who is a low income resident.

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Who she works now in a kitchen and the conditions in those kitchens are pretty terrible So just like to kind of point that out as we kind of talk about race and equity in this conversation and it's a very nuanced about how people are being impacted where. We did a pilot in Harlem in 2016 and working with the local community group called We act for environmental justice and a local radio station we put sensors inside people's apartments to measure and model indoor urban heat and we think those sensors with stories that we're hearing from the community that blueline is missing Miss Jones's sensor.

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You know she's not a digital native she's 80 but she takes care of her 3 month old grandson there's the 2 demographics we care most about on a sea change so we're not a traditional tech company in that regard our goal is to reach people where they are so we deploying neighbors and residents and people who know her to tell us her story on her behalf she one of the hottest sensors in our sample we also put those sensors and in public housing you don't know this but there's no federal right to cool put outside it there's no federal right to cool we have a right to get a heater from your land or been an AC.

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And so as we start to go into the lake the hotter and hotter communities facing greater risk we have to have these conversations those sensors are on the left at night I'm sorry I didn't have an extra site about the full graph because this is Judge attacking I want to see the full graph but I'll explain it to you the yellow line is outside temperatures at night dips down behind this red line that's where we need to feel so that's where our bodies need to come to rest at night.

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And you'll see if you slept in a hammock outside of Harlem you'd be fine but those buildings were trapping he all night and in Durban he waives starts 3 or 4 days before the National Weather Service says there's a problem it can last up to 7 days after they say it's not a problem it has a very different behavior so that means were warning and talking to communities all wrong.

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We're now working with Georgia Tech on working with sensors This is actually your campus simply. The urban climate lab and Brian Stone and you can see how granular the heat map is and even to break that down. You can have 53 days in the summer in Georgia Tech's campus be unsafe unhealthy and maybe a block over had it be 7 days again the model data is not granular enough to know where the impacts are how so how does that translate when we work on our communities when we put up these sensors.

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On utility poles they're they're not live to the Internet they live to the Internet they're using low radio frequency waves to commit transmit data but we don't want to talk to people and graphs and maps we want to talk to them in plain language so we're developing stinks on ice a change that will have local data and more bigger picture data sets be able to tell people about their experiences in real time just like we all talk to each other and have that knowledge on hand.

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Dialogue and data can and should be a dialogue and in fact dialogue is its own kind of data. This is Destiny's post the 1st time she came on I see change and she's just like every neuron any and every time it rains. You probably have that here in the last couple days or it was really raining every time remains of that but a week later without any real onboarding from us she's talking like this like ideologist when you're an engineer again community risk education can lower community insurance rates more informed you are about risk the more able you are to act and we had actually measure that we started working with social scientists to analyze language on a pos the platform without having a control study we get the highest correlation between usage and I see change in learning people's language becomes more complicated more complex sophisticated and longer people are pay as they pay attention they notice more things.

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Again since when does science the act of observation act in questions exclusively belong to one class of people when we can all work together to improve knowledge Well boy. And in that regard you have to be able to bring the community data that you've been able to generate back to the communities that impact we work as best we can whenever we can to be able to take everything we learn on i.c.t. to give it back to the community as a pop up block party that we co-hosted with a soul food restaurant owner and he was so busy that we would actually have to put headphones on him and like record him while he was cooking and we showed him pictures the community it posted and we asked him what he wanted his community to know about flood risk and we did it was kicking because we didn't want to bother him because he worked real hard and he selected all the images that he wanted to show his neighbors about flood risk in the community.

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And we also have done other kinds of engagements. When we have a neighborhood that we know is not on Twitter that we know is not read in the newspaper that it was really hard to work with and access it's not because they're hard to work with this because no one's actually gone to where they are so if a comment box is in people's and local businesses have been incredible partners with us in certain neighborhoods particular places we have wait times and we've actually been able to recruit digitally to the tool using that we've also seen people have the most amazing conversations on comment box cards.

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Seem to remember how we do this. We have also have live storytelling events people in New Orleans who lost their cars in a major flood in 2017 told stories next to the people who lost their jobs as a result of that flood it was a really incredible to see civic and public dialogue taking place in a humane space where people weren't yelling at each other and city council meetings.

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So here's the math about why we do what we do. I think actually 12 years is probably conservative. But what's really you know again when my kid is what is he now when he's 15 he's going to inherit the world that I give him as best I can so I work really hard for a bit it's this that really we worry about.

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We are normalizing extreme weather and climate experiences in a window as short as 2 to 8 years. That's the latest social science so when you do the math you think about that it's the equivalent of us being frogs in a boiling pot on the stove we've talked to people in Ocean City New Jersey who just stop caring about flooding because it's that common that's been flooding since the ninety's so why should I care there's a woman I know you have early bees caught popping up because in early spring so woman has been documenting your visa for 5 years and I see a change in 2015 she freaked out because they woke up in Colorado in the middle of January she has posted about a January 14th she's not worried as much she should though because early springs put you at risk for drought West Nile virus and wildfire season but what we're after is this if we can see what's changing and point to it then we can act on it destiny didn't care about flooding until she noticed how much it was bothering her and impacting her daily life and once she had that moment she wanted to take action.

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We are trying to create destinies and cannot and will not create find them they're there they're not people are naturally powerful we can't say that we are empowering them that is ridiculous people are naturally power and and when they're connected they're that much more powerful they're trying to create a network of destinies a network of Liam's we have users in a $118.00 countries and we are seeding an international neighbor to neighbor movement that is seeing change together and making them.

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Thank you. Wow. So I will definitely be downloading this up and be sharing I see change across my network's use of color among everyone I know. But I think something really really important here is the emphasis on. Storytelling and civil engagement. This is how Indigenous communities historically have told their stories and this is how we know our way of life now and I think it's important to circle back to that in times of dire need and this is now going to get worse so we need to act upon it.

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With that I would like to introduce arena Turner greenly she is a staunch proponent of employing sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating Nature's Time Tested patterns and strategies Breena own and operate sustainable community solutions as well as manages a network of 2000 individuals in organizations dedicated to sustainable development and community communities across the African Diaspora alongside organizing the annual Black sustainability summit Rayna serves as a project manager for her and her in Corporate it incorporated.

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Urban green job training program in partnership with the Nature Conservancy urban conservation and healthy Cities Initiative grayness passion for creating healthy and sustainable communities shifted her career focus. From advertising these issues still engaging in global research for local solutions including generation all and relational development and increasing community members self-sufficiency ladies and gentlemen rainout Turner greenly.

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So let's see if I can get this presentation. You. Know technology is great right. It's hard to see from this angle here I guess I'm going to just the class I. Don't want this user thing. Ok I'm. Going to force typically what ends up happening right. Here right go somewhere and.

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See what. There we go all right success Well it's a pleasure to be here today. First want to give thanks and honor to the creator to my ancestors those known and unknown I want to give thanks to Jenny Chris Rebecca Julia and Zena and particularly to Liam's family.

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Thank you so much. To the point in your presentation around kind of how we start doing this type of work it definitely was inspired by my father and my mother of course on give shout out to my mom but at the same time I think the biggest push that I had was to not continue to stay and move within the same spaces that most people were moving in and that's not always easy right as we talk about black sustainability Sadly in 2020 we still have to be here and have this.

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Additional piece on top of sustainability because within that space equity is still not there. And so I'm here with you to stand on the shoulders of those ancestors that have come before me those that I study those that I've learned those that are honor and revere when I speak about myself when you hear me say I am speaking in 1st person plural.

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Because I cannot be here without the support that I've had. When I started on this journey and I'm going to I'm going to do more of a narrative and I was trying to decide whether I wanted to teach whether I wanted to talk about myself or whether I wanted to talk about the initiative so I'm going to roll them all into one all right by.

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Going to be a little bit more fun and make things up but I went on this journey of going back to fetch knowledge that wasn't given to me and my dad used to always ask me you know where did you get the information from have you checked your source have you considered a source and have you try to look in other places in spaces that talk to you guys you talked about lamb in his you know his vibrancy and always willing to be kind of right on those front lines my biggest piece was exposure we typically didn't get exposed to a lot of things that our counterparts did and so I went on this journey I think the 6th grade it was I read this book called The destruction of a black civilization by chance a Williams And that was it for me and that was it for my teachers.

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They had enough of me I was like you're trying to indoctrinate me and I don't know what you're doing and I have put out a class quite a bit but my great still succeeded. And when you go back and finish that knowledge it gives you this sense in this purpose and this great a foundation to stand upon and so as we go back in fetch the Susan a drink or assemble by the calm people in Ghana is a bird that goes back and fetches wisdom and knowledge this is on this a bit and it's not just to go back and fetch the knowledge and wisdom just just to have it is to actually then take it and apply it to present day challenges and solutions right so you take that knowledge and wisdom and you apply it to whatever challenges come your way and I found myself really being pushed by a professor if you guys have pushy professors if you have folks that continuously challenge you I always found myself in the classroom with the teacher that nobody wanted and that was because I wanted to be pushed and I wanted to be challenged it was never fun while I was going through it but I definitely came out better for it and I got pushed by one of my professors to actually go.

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To China and travel and serve as one of his assistants in a very rural area and shine in China in I got to go there and I got to teach and I definitely didn't feel qualified to be there but I will tell you after going and traveling that's been it for me I live by the motto of never spending 12 consecutive months on u.s. soil always will leave and I'll spend at least 30 days actually going and looking at different communities particularly those that have had roughly the least amount of exposure to Western and Westernised culture just to see how have you been able to preserve your culture have you been able to actually move forward without having some of the effects and negative impacts that this westernized civilization has imparted on this and as I did that I found a lot of things at the core right where there's a different value system the worldview definitely supports this whole concept of social energy right as the value point is not about the dollar is really about how you can actually utilise the collective genius of the whole you're not an individual you are part of the rest of the system right we're all a part of this earth and that is how we move forward so when you think about sustainability and you think about high tech I'm a logical advances my husband I actually give him very much credit for this term that I'm using up here because he sent me an article we love to exchange information.

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Is I mean this article about high tech t e k and its traditional ecological knowledge also like to replace it with traditional environmental knowledge or traditional economic knowledge there was a high science in these communities that is often times over looked or appropriated right and credit is not given and so as I stand here today I want to talk about the value of having high tech design high tech practices and going back and fetching that knowledge and applying and that's what we do with the black sustainability.

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Summit that's what we do within our network and those are the principles that we stand firm on and we are unapologetic about so as you can see here this is Timbuktu in Mali they've built with natural materials right utilize local resources and it's also using chemicals that are found within your backyard right so if a natural disaster whereas we experience climate changes things change Evan flow our ancestors built was such a high science and design that even if that were to get decimated you won't have the leeching of chemicals you won't have the amount of waste that will happen if you're in an area that.

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Might support a little bit more high tech and there's also been embedded in these these knowledge systems that I think that we're returning to right on a very small scale we just aren't giving it the credit that is to pull this one because I got a chance to actually go to polling k..

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In Columbia as well and you get a chance to see that there's also this I like to say is the 1st plumbing system that was there right and so as you get a chance to travel you get a chance to experience things outside of what is the dominant worldview you get a chance to see that these aren't really new concepts these are.

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New. How moments that you have to say hey I have got this solution these are ancient concepts so when you look at sustainability green infrastructure resilience biomimicry these are all different ways to describe what was embedded in a people's culture and if we look to Nona Dr Murray and me you know that culture is our immune system right and if you support yourself and you support your culture.

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You will continue to produce that which did not have the negative impacts that this current society has had and so if we're looking toward If we're looking to our innovation we need to look back as well to be informed pull this up because as. A member of the African Diaspora.

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A lot of our culture was torn from us take and strip names language and the best way that we've been able to find or at least myself has also been to go back and look at traditional African spiritual system because that was the only way to embed that knowledge and wisdom and so often times you may get a bad rap or be demonized as you know or you're worshipping different animal totems and things like that but you really have to understand that nature or natural law was it and what was happening was you embedded it the laws of nature and the aspects inside of these personify deities if you will.

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And so you actually are able to have a people past this down generationally to say you know what let's respect the water let's respect the air let's look at these things and now that that's been broken you find that the majority of the world's people are also separate from it so when you ask those questions around climate change and you ask those questions around how can you continue to educate people if they've been broken from their culture which uplifted it and have this how do you hope to get them back or return and one of the things that has.

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Really motivated me has been the educational concepts our network is about 2000 folks as in a shared 2000 people around the globe that a focus on sustainable development and we all have this understanding that although indigenous culture was. Pretty much appropriate it and many leaders are controlling this narrative that doesn't include our voice we understand that we still have to pick up and keep moving and keep working and it's not going to be easy so today I'm just here to bring awareness to the work that we're doing and talk about the impacts that we can continue to have as we look at emerging markets as things continue to shift as we look at these sustainable development goals oftentimes you see a lot of the green market expansion and development concentrated in developed and emerging economies Well Africa is an emerging market Africa's Diaspora is also an emerging market which oftentimes is overlooked and we see that here right in our backyard Has anybody heard the term gentrification raise your hand I'm sure you've heard it right that's displacement and it's still an emerging market where we see a lot of development happening in a current if we haven't any merging markets we have a chance to get it right and it shouldn't be done without the people that actually live there and so as I made this journey the whole reality that set in is even though there's unprecedented urbanization we have an opportunity to get this right but we have to do it and equitable way.

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There here. I think the biggest piece and I did want to touch on this just sensors Julia. Yeah we'll talk because often times as black people African people we end up being living censors right so we're the canary in the coal mine and we end up receiving the most of environmental degradation impacts and we are the least resilient.

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People in the sense of being able to respond now with the most resilient when it comes down to taking everything that life throws our way and still coming but we need to be the people that are also at the table and so instead of begging or asking for a seat at the table what I did was look around and find people and ask folks and the more I started asking and pulling on those people they started coming together and this is just a snapshot of the leaders in sustainability that looked like me that looked like the communities that we are serving and the communities that experience the most impacts from climate change and environmental pollution and so it's been a it's been a fun Jeremy had a lot of fun working with them we've hosted workshops online and on land next year this year actually started 2020 this year we will be in Ghana travelling and contributing to a sustainable community.

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Development the quake sustainability Institute we will be there and will be hosting workshops hands on so we'll be working with local demands as well as bringing people from across the diaspora to actually come there and learn how to actually build with the earth how to actually install solar What are some of the impacts and what's the importance because as you have a lot of Chinese in there mining and taking out box I you're exposed soon as it hits the air.

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The land has been done your water is done is toxic and so the people who are there working trying to make the dollar because of the economic situation without fully understanding the impacts of doing so and so that's what we do and we do it from a standpoint that allows culture to be at the base so that we can have those common shared experiences and be able to talk a common language.

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Here are some of the areas that we focus on in our work and as the network has continued to grow one of the major benefits that we've had is to really call in challenge people on the diversity equity and inclusion piece and say you know we have projects that we want to fund we have work that we want to do we are capable qualified and excellent at what we've been doing grassroots to grass tops now is an opportunity for our network to actually be mobilized in the right way to actually contribute to these areas of focus that impact our communities.

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A few of our solutions have been collaboration capacity building we support those who are members of our networks helping them to scale and also helping them to further fill in some of the gaps that they may have by allowing it to be more of a collective effort. And we have a major database that I'm hoping we get a chance to work with the Georgia Tech students to help us make it as dynamic and as robust as this I see change or maybe even having some levels of collaboration because we get a lot of we have a lot of data we've collected a lot of data but it's now time to put it in a platform the everybody can utilize and see.

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I wanted to make sure that I shared at least maybe 3 of the folks organizations that follow and it here to these standards and these concepts and these principles of embedding African culture and bedding African spirituality and honoring the culture of the communities in which they are operating.

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Is one system model is here and what they've done here in this house down here is they have indoor courtyard and in traditional African communities which you don't find so widely anymore because everybody's rushing toward this westernized view and this is now the status this is the this is the place that you want to get to that's not the place that honors your culture and when that's gone when your physical spaces are gone you you lose quite a bit and so when you return to pouring libations out of your home when you return to communing with your ancestors who are there you've now invited the environment to be back inside of your home and elevated that this is a way in which you can also make a dent and a difference and it doesn't have to be in a way this consider quote unquote primitive which is not negative but it can still be done as beautifully as they've been able to design.

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I mentioned how incorporate it is a Pan African organization based here in Atlanta I do work with them as well traditionally as a spot of work that they've been focusing on urban agriculture and training up the community on actually having a better healing experience with the land so if you don't know how we got here it wasn't a happy journey and I don't say that in jest I say it because it's oftentimes swept under the rug and as we talk about the transatlantic enslavement tray and all of the things that were broken from 170000000 people this is an African Holocaust this is an African holocaust and it occurred and it happened and if we want to really build our relationship with the land and return to actually growing our food and learning how we can survive this is one of the hurdles that we have to get over and this is one of the beautiful things that this organization that I'm proud to partner with I'm proud to do work with has been doing and now has taken that work after 18 years to Ghana to actually build and build a bridge to show what the parallels are because just as ignorant as many of us are here about Will goes on overseas they are as well and so it's up to us to actually bridge that gap and so I'm happy to be taken that journey with them in 2020 in October for a black sustainability summit last but not least we have an environmental engineering firm that does work in Rwanda and Ghana and here in the United States and I just wanted to share with you all just a few organizations that we work with that are part of our network that are doing phenomenal work that is to a standard that is excellent and oftentimes is unsung and oftentimes it's not you're not aware of it and so I thought it would be nice to share that with you are today.