creating resilience by…
Bridging Relationships. Building Capacity. Acting Together.
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The suburban cities where active RCC citizen leaders live in range from being very early adopters to being slow adopters. Over several years RCC staff and peer mentors work with a core group of local leaders in a new RCC city to complete five key steps.
For more information please contact: Sean Gosiewski, Program Director, Resilient Cities & Communities 612 250-0389 sean@rccmn.co who is the MN GreenStep Cities Best Practice Advisor for Best Practice #24 Benchmarks and Community Engagement
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Bridging Relationships.
(1) organizing a citizen sustainability coalition
(2) build a broader base of support within their community among students, faith communities, BIPOC communities, League of Women Voters, businesses, environmentalists. (Photo from Sustainable Stillwater’s community launch event.)
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Building Capacity.
(3) finding a City Council Member and city staff who are open to working on sustainability
(4) passing a City Council Resolution to form a City Sustainability commission to guide the city’s work and working with leaders to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion. See the sample bylaws for Richfield’s Sustainability commission Link
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Acting Together.
(5) Recruiting diverse, motivated volunteers to serve on their Sustainability Commission that creates and implements an annual sustainability/resilience work plan in partnership with their City Council and their City Staff Green Team. See the sample Annual Workplan from Bloomington’s Sustainability Commission.