First Unitarian Church of Oakland (at the corner of 14th and Castro, adjacent to Interstate 980) is considering becoming a community resilience hub for the neighborhood during times of disaster. For instance: power outages, extreme heat, extreme rain and flooding, and wildfire smoke. Please help us prepare by sharing your likely priorities and needs.
CLICK HERE for the Neighborhood Needs Survey
What is a Resilience Hub?
A faith-based Resilience Hub is a House of Worship designed to help congregants and their neighborhoods prepare for and recover from climate disaster by providing safe hospitality, clean energy through solar panels and battery storage, clean air through air filtration, and so many other critical resources needed when disaster strikes. Power outages, wildfires, earthquakes, flooding, and so many of the terrible effects of climate change are here: we need to prepare ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities.
Many of our faith communities are not ready for these climate-driven disasters and the communities who will be most threatened by climate change are especially vulnerable. We all have a pivotal role in building resilience in our towns and cities. Whether a House of Worship has a large facility, land, social capital, or something else, those assets can be channeled into building climate resilience in preparation for the coming physical and spiritual storms of the climate crisis.