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In our penultimate episode of Season 2, we talk about the topic that I write about all the time in my newsletter: community preparedness. This is a much less tangible element of preparedness and isn’t one you’re going to accomplish over as weekend or even a few weeks. It’s a long-term process of relationship-building.

Hopefully this conversation that Brekke and I had helps to give you some inspiration and motivation to help you begin to branch out with neighborhood preparedness.

Here is the written version of this topic from last year to reference back to it.

Additionally, we mentioned a few FEMA resources that, as of this writing, are still on the FEMA website, but as with everything on federal websites right now, there’s no telling what will be removed and when. So here are a few downloaded PDFs that might be helpful:

* Community Resilience: Using a Religious Literacy Primer to Improve Engagement with Faith Communities | FEMA

* National Disaster Recovery Framework | FEMA

* Disaster Resource Identification | FEMA

And last, Brekke mentioned the idea of having a book club serve as the convening activity for you and your neighbors. Here are some great books to get your started:

* A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

* Generation Dread by Britt Wray

* The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle

* The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

* Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

* The Future by Naomi Alderman

* Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Also, I write the occasional book review in my newsletter, so if you want some other recommendations or want to check back, you can just go to the “Book Club” tab from the main page.

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