Coastal faith communities can be key assets to building resilience in their communities, but do not have the resources or investment from resilience agencies to build the necessary environmental…

Coastal faith communities can be key assets to building resilience in their communities, but do not have the resources or investment from resilience agencies to build the necessary environmental literacy in their communities. The goal of this project is to create networks of faith communities that are educated on the realities of climate change and able to serve as hubs of social and physical resilience for their communities helping them better weather the physical, social, and spiritual storms of the climate crisis. This project will (1) engage faith communities in social learning on the connections between their experience of extreme weather and the science of climate change, (2) facilitate a series of workshops in which faith communities engage with local scientists, planners, and decision-makers around climate resilience to extreme weather and climate change, and (3) guide congregations through a resilience implementation and educational project. The project will take place in RU