We’re excited to announce an upcoming webinar, co-hosted by Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW), the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA), and the St. James Town Climate Action Crew.

Climate Resilience and High-Rise Communities - Learning from St James Town, Toronto

DATE: Monday, February 26th, 2024 

WEBINAR: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (ET)

DISCUSSION SESSION (optional): 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm 

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0DRRHQ0zRQG_4eDvgr3viw#/registration

Join Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW), Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA), and the St. James Town Climate Action Crew on February 26th and learn from community volunteers and project staff about community-led outreach work that uses a neighbours-helping-neighbours approach, specific opportunities and challenges for residents in high-rise rental buildings in preparing for and responding to extreme weather events, and a co-created draft model for high-rise emergency preparedness that can be customized and scaled to other settings.

About the Project:

In collaboration with residents and volunteers in St James Town, TEA and CREW launched a project to support community-led climate resilience in high-rise communities. St James Town is one of the most densely-populated neighbourhoods in Canada, with 18 high-rise rental buildings. High-rise residents can experience particular challenges and risks during a heat wave, power outage, or emergency. Through this new initiative, we learned about how impacted high-rise communities can lead climate resilience solutions and support one another through extreme weather events and other emergencies.