TOMA RESILIENCE CAMPUS (2021) Oregon / California Border Blue Lake - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

David Narum, Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) National Adaptation Forum April 24, 2019 A REVIEW OF RESILIENCE PROJECTS AT BLR, INTRODUCING THE TOMA RESILIENCE CAMPUS (2021)

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Blue Lake Rancheria, California  Federally Recognized (1908) as a refuge for homeless Indians  2015- 16 White House “Climate Action Champion”  2017 FEMA John D. Solomon Whole of Community Preparedness Award 4

History of cultural, Wiyot basket-maker, late 19 th Century. social and economic resilience.  self-reliance  environmental BLR Microgrid, early 21 st Century stewardship  strengthening community 5

Why is BLR so interested in Resilience?

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“ Sometimes, earthquakes bring out the worst in people .“ --Charlton Heston , in the movie “Earthquake” (1974) 12

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Potential Climate Change Impacts

BLR Resilience Projects and Programs

Microgrid (2016)  .5 MW solar PV | 2MWh battery storage  Powers buildings, critical infrastructure, Red Cross shelter  Supports lifeline sectors (communications, food, transportation, water)

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New Solar+ Microgrid (2019)  60 kW Solar PV + 106 kW/169 kWh battery storage  A replicable ”resilience package” for convenience stores

Smart Water Grid (2020)  BLR’s own water supply  SCADA-enabled efficient system  Wells, pumps, treatment, smart controls all powered by BLR’s microgrid

Food Sovereignty Program  Elders Food Program: 60,000 meals delivered/year  Onsite organic food production  Skill-building workshops – gardening, canning, bee-keeping, and more!

Transportation  Biodiesel powered tribal transit system  Electric Vehicles

RTIC (2016)

The Toma Resilience Campus

 2017 Economic Development Administration “Disaster Supplemental”

Toma Resilience Campus  Toma means “sun” in the Wiyot language.  The Toma is located adjacent to BLR’s .5 MW solar array.  Five Focal Areas:  Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery  Clean Energy  Smart Technology  Light Manufacturing  Sustainable Food Production

The Toma is  A resilience-focused economic development center  “whole of community “ resilience, with a focus on social inclusion and trust  creating connections among people and businesses  Inclusivity Emphasis  entrepreneurship  design principles

The 20,000 square foot facility (to be completed in 2021) will include:  Passive and active (75 kW PV) solar features  Rainwater catchment  State-of-the-art training facilities  Resilience Business Incubator  Fablab/Makerspace for workforce trainings and product development  Smithsonian Spark!Lab for youth  Commercial teaching kitchen  A retail store and café

And will provide a new home for:  BLR’s Resilience Training and Innovation Center  BLR’s solar workforce development training program for Native American veterans  BLR’s “Pathmakers” K -12 culturally responsive makerspace education program  BLR’s own entrepreneurship training program  Additional programming with a host of strategic partners, including…

Toma Strategic Partners  Regional National • • American Red Cross Tribal Governments • • Arcata Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute • California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) • Herman Miller, Inc. • Humboldt State University (HSU) and College of the Redwoods • Spark!Lab. Smithsonian Museum of American History (CR) community college • • Humboldt County Office of Education (HCOE) Tribal Emergency Management Association (iTEMA) • Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services (HCOES) • U.S. Dept. of Agriculture • North Coast Small Business Development Center (SBDC) • U.S. Dept. of Commerce • Northern Humboldt Union High School District (NHUHSD) • U.S. Dept. of Energy • Redwood Region Economic Development Commission (RREDC) • Office of Indian Energy • • National Laboratories Regional law enforcement entities (police, County Sheriff, • Idaho National Lab; NREL; LBNL; Oakridge California Highway Patrol) National Lab • U.S. Dept. of Interior State • Bureau of Indian Affairs • • IEED | DEMD California Emergency Management Institute (EMI) • California Energy Commission • NOAA | ACOE | EPA | BOEM • California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research • California Highway Patrol • California Office of Emergency Services • California Public Utilities Commission • California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI) • Startup Santa Barbara (StartupSB)

The Big Q that drives BLR’s resilience initiatives:  How can a rural region be more socially just, resilient, and self-sufficient?

Interdependence is both good and bad.

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National Strategic Narrative (2011). Navy Captain Wayne Porter (top) and Marine Colonel Mark Mykleby argued that the U.S. would be more strategically secure if we pursued policies of “ sustainment ” rather than containment. Sustainment is achieved through networked, resilient, sustainable, innovative, and entrepreneurial regions that build on local and regional assets.

BLR’s “Re”silience Goals  Re-localize  Bioregion  Ecology  Inhabit  Re-generative Design  Clean Tech  Permaculture  Transition

Guiding Principle 1 We will inhabit our bioregion — immersed in the local ecology and steeped in natural and indigenous history, and live within the means of the bioregion, sourcing basic needs responsibly. http://inhabit.earth/fundamentals/

Guiding Principle 2  We need creative, innovative, empowered, and entrepreneurial people so we can create resilient solutions appropriate for the area.

Guiding Ideas for Toma Programming  Regional entrepreneurial capacity depends on people with entrepreneurial skillsets (which can be learned).  Regional resilience capacity requires resilient people with knowledge and self-efficacy.

Toma Resilience Campus Vision (following the National Strategic Narrative) Demonstrate a model hub for the development of a linked network of regional hubs that use partnerships and networks to share ideas, explore best practices, drive innovation, and develop robust, interlinked, revitalizing economies.

It may not look like it, but we are trying to reduce technology- related vulnerability.

Defeat the Old Model  Poverty and insecurity: neoliberal economics  Lower wages: competition with foreign labor  At least the investor class benefits! Economies in the Age of Trumpism. Journal of Futures Studies, March 2017, 21(3): 101 – 106

New Model  Value creation from sharing through a “knowledge commons” with open productive communities  Generative and ethical market coalitions that create real livelihoods  New governance institutions to maintain the cooperative infrastructure

Toma Goal  Create productive jobs compatible with the need for a social-ecological transition  Move from extractive to generative models that add value to a resource base that citizens are co-creating

Commons  The “digital commons” combined with desktop manufacturing and automation technologies, can produce sustainable models of production  Design Global, Manufacture Local (DGML)

Advantages of DGML  No fossil fuels in global supply chains  Physical production done locally  No design for planned obsolescence  Open-source, circular economy

Brian Holmes: The advantage of these relatively inexpensive machine tools is that they allow small groups of workers to autonomously carry out sophisticated projects, fulfilling the cultural demand for dignity of labor without oppressive management by suits. If people learn to use [these tools] . . . they could use them in a commons-based economy, to help rebuild a resilient community. In this way the value of one’s own labor would be reinforced along a pathway outside of current managerial capitalism. Bauwens, Michel. (2016). Answering the attraction of Trump by a massive investment in relocalized community production. P2P Foundation.

What could be the vehicles for such a transition?  Associative and cooperatively-run makerspaces, where the prototypes for such new manufacturing and production could be piloted  Programs that create blue- collar jobs (trades, crafts, etc.) without resorting to national protectionism

Lastly, Interlinked Regions  Pro-commons policies focused on local autonomy and on creating linked, transregional capacities  Green New Deal with jobs created in alternative energy technologies, sustainable food-production systems, and resilient infrastructures