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  • Online Map & Living Library
    • We spoke about creating a map/living library of personal narratives from climate change impacted regions.
    • “To have people show their experience through an “everyday lens” using whichever form they feel allows them to express themselves best. For example, someone might take a picture of packed bags. Another person might write about dusting ash off their car. Perhaps someone might even paint the smoke.” (Ayla Sully)
    • We are open to collaboration on this and work together to build something!
  • Keep fighting on climate mitigation  
  • Activism and protests  
  • Depending on where you live, you may need to be more prepared for fire. 
  • Communities preparing wildfire mitigation and planning strategies  
  • Standardization, specifically to communities, on how to deal with fires in policy 
  • Be wary of misinformation and romanticization of fires 
  • Fire fighting and private property, need to be more willing to sacrifice buildings to save firefighter’s lives
  • Support the Climate Disaster Project
  • Go bags, and raising awareness on how to be prepared for fires

Resource List

Articles: 

McKibben, B. What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art. Grist https://grist.org/article/mckibben-imagine/ (2005).

Books:

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon
Rehearsals for Living, Robin Maynard & Leanne Simpson

Journal Articles on Wildfires:

Davis, Mike. “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn.” Environmental History Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/3984830. 

Hoffman, Kira M., et al. “The Right to Burn: Barriers and Opportunities for Indigenous-Led Fire Stewardship in Canada.” FACETS, vol. 7, Jan. 2022, pp. 464–81. facetsjournal.com (Atypon)https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0062. 

Rose, D. Decolonising the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies. 2001, can be found in: Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value by Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bd95/d115f425d5328b88b7820973e68c34f2dadd.pdf  

Other Books on Wildfires:

Struzik, Edward. Dark Days at Noon | McGill-Queen’s University Presshttps://www.mqup.ca/dark-days-at-noon-products-9780228012092.php.