Community Climate Resilience Workshop - Spring 2019

Climate change impacts Philadelphia neighborhoods. Resilience matters. 

According to the City of Philadelphia's 2016 Growing Stronger: Toward a climate-ready Philadelphia,  our changing climate shows that residents and infrastructure will be negatively impacted by: 

• Increased frequency and severity of heat waves
• Increased frequency and severity of storm events 
• Flooding and other damage from rising sea levels 

Planning Resilient Communities  

Green Building United and Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC) are partnering together once again to present our second Community Climate Resilience Workshop, aimed at increasing knowledge of resilience from the city scale down to the neighborhood level in Philadelphia. Experts will present information on how climate change is impacting communities, what resiliency means and looks like, and how communities can take action. Projects, policies, tools, and other cities will serve as references. 

Check out last year's workshop. 

Krista Egger | Enterprise Community Partners

Krista is senior director of National Initiatives at Enterprise. With more than a decade of experience leading energy efficiency and healthy housing initiatives with affordable housing stakeholders, Krista manages Enterprise’s national sustainability and resilience efforts.  She leverages Enterprise’s Green Communities platform, climate disaster response and preparedness work, and cultural resilience programming to develop and deploy equitable climate resilience solutions for vulnerable communities across the country. 

Prior to Enterprise, Krista directed Advanced Energy’s Affordable Housing business unit which provides building science expertise, programs, and trainings to portfolio owners, utilities, and housing finance agencies. She led the award‐winning guaranteed‐performance SystemVision program as well as consulting services with Habitat for Humanity International, NeighborWorks, utility clients, top builders, and the EPA. 

Ciara Williams | City of Philadelphia Office of Sustainability 

Ciara is the Outreach and Communications Coordinator for Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability. She previously worked with Mural Arts’ Restored Spaces Initiative where she became an organizer and educator with Trash Academy, a Philadelphia-based collaborative of artists, activists, youth, and residents working together to understand and address the issue of trash through participatory action research and public art.

Ciara is passionate about education, environmental justice,  and self determination. She is especially interested in working with communities most impacted by disinvestment, extraction, and environmental racism. Her current work is a continuation of her experiences organizing around environmental injustices as a youth in her hometown of Chester, PA.