Sustainability Starts at Home

Today for Earth Week, let’s focus on community resilience!

Resilience is a key component of sustainability. It is the ability to bounce back from major disruptions, from COVID-19, to floods, to extreme drought, heat, wind, or fire, as well as toxic spills. Unfortunately, with climate change we will be seeing more and more of these types of crisis. For Erie to be a truly sustainable community, maintaining healthy and prosperous social, economic and environmental conditions, we need to build in resilience with the right plans, funds, infrastructure, and resources, including energy, communication, transportation, and food.

Learn more at Erie.Earth/resilience! 

The Sustainability Advisory Board will be hosting an online Earth Day week through Sunday, April 26. Each day, they will be highlighting action-items, or pledges, that participants can commit to in honor of the 50^th Anniversary of Earth Day. Through social media and email, they will be asking our community to commit to making small changes in their daily lives, and to encourage their friends, family, and neighbors to do the same – while staying safe at home! Subscribe to Sustainability notifications here.

Erie youth are invited to get creative and share how “I Can Make Erie Green” through creative expression using chalk, paint, markers, crayons, etc. Completed masterpieces can be emailed to connect@erie.earth to be featured on a new Erie.Earth website debuting on Earth Day, April 22. The Sustainability Advisory Board will be awarding all participants a prize!