Imagining a Future #ResilientLB

Published October 31, 2018

In March 2018, CSULB’s Office of Sustainability and Center for Community Engagement brought together key campus, city, and community stakeholders for a day of collaborative, engaging program planning activities aimed at identifying and prioritizing steps to reduce risk and enhance climate resilience across Long Beach.

The rich and energetic conversations that occurred during the Resilience Charrette resulted in the emergence of four key shared priority areas for moving forward via integrated planning:

Increase community activism and organization through enhanced cooperation, collaboration, and coalition-building to support vulnerable populations and frontline communities with focus on equity concerns and strengthening community organizations;

Upgrade and retrofit the electrical grid with technological innovations, such as microgrid capabilities, increased local renewable energy production, decommission vulnerable infrastructure in low-lying coastal areas, and retrofit existing infrastructure to increase energy efficiency;

Increase tree cover and green space on campus and across the city, focusing on programs for planting and maintaining trees and green spaces, expand the urban forest, improve education about caring for trees during droughts, integrate edible fruit trees into tree-planting plans, increase green infrastructure, improve equity in distribution of green space especially in frontline communities.

Active and electrified transportation, including increased transit-oriented/mixed used development that is affordable and helps people to live closer to efficient public transportation options and to where they work to remove commute times and number of single passenger vehicle trips. Increase student housing near/on campus, and develop more distance learning and telecommuting options.

Imagining a Future #Resilient LB Community Event

Please join CSULB's Office of Sustainability and the Center for Community Engnagement for the next phase of joint CSULB-Long Beach community strategic planning on Climate Resilience on Thursday, November 15.

Using the outcomes of the March Resilience Charrette along with current events that provide hints of “what’s to come,” we will be exploring and crafting ideas to guide the university campus and the surrounding community toward the climate resilient future we all strive for as part of CSULB’s Imagine BEACH 2030 event. To join us, please RSVP below:

Thursday, November 15
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802

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About Imagine BEACH 2030

On November 14 (8:00 am PST) through November 15 (11:59 pm PST), the CSULB community is invited to join an online conversation called Imagine BEACH 2030. The goal is to engage faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the broader community to think creatively about the future of the university: its role in the community, the changing value of the degree, funding models, innovations in research, community engagement, teaching, work, collaboration, sustainability and resilience, and more.

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What You Can Do:

Join us for the November 15^th event from 3-5 PM at the Aquarium of the Pacific to discuss our “preferred future” around a resilient Long Beach. RSVP today!

Learn more and RSVP before November 14^th to participate in Imagine BEACH 2030 by visiting the Imagine BEACH 2030 website here.

Participate in Imagine BEACH 2030 at any time and from anywhere between 8:00 AM on November 14 and 11:59 PM on November 15. Remember to RSVP! Use the following hashtags to connect your insights with others: