by Susan Silber | Apr 6, 2023 | Resilient Place: Case Study
Bethel Community Presbyterian Church in many ways was already functioning as a resilience hub, precisely the reason why Sustainability Manager Dr. Hoi-Fei Mok approached the church leadership about joining the Resilience Hubs Initiative cohort. The site’s food pantry...
by Susan Silber | Apr 6, 2023 | Resilient Place: Case Study
When sites are dreaming up their ideal resilience hub, community leaders often envision working alongside the surrounding neighborhood to plan and implement projects. The Church of Christ and Lewis Avenue neighborhood have been making this vision real for the past...
by Susan Silber | Apr 6, 2023 | Resilient Place: Case Study
The theme of Tikkun Olam, which means Repairing the World in Hebrew, guides the resilience work of Temple Beth Shalom, a synagogue located in the center of San Leandro. From supporting members with mutual aid to its certification as a green business, Temple Beth...
by Susan Silber | Mar 31, 2023 | Resilient Place: Case Study
In the Spring of 2016 a group of my neighbors, who live in the quiet unincorporated community of El Sobrante, started gathering monthly to share crops we had grown in our yards. That November, a young African American man named Will Sims, was murdered just down the...
