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COMMUNITY RESILIENCE & DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
This special live-audience podcast episode was recorded at The Riverside – Boulder, featuring three community resilience and disaster preparedness experts: Miranda Clendening, Don Hall, and Henry Mitchell (as well as a special guest appearance by Brigitte Mars). With a focus on community relationships, knowledge building, and long-term strategies such as establishing food forests for enhanced food security, Henry, Don, and Miranda discuss a variety of simple, fun, and effective ways we can enhance our own preparedness while helping to enhance the resilience of our communities. At the end of the interview we discuss a variety of essentials for our homes and “go-bags” (life straws, bandanas, multitools, walkie talkies, fire starter, flares, dried food, warm clothing, space blankets, maxi pads, and dude wipes), and Brigitte’s surprise appearance expands the conversation into herbal essential oils and homeopathic resources like arnica, lavender, peppermint, tea tree, Rescue Remedy, and knowledge of edible and medicinal plants growing in your region. An emphasis on staying calm and collected, and avoiding “fight or flight” limbic hijack in potentially high-stress and highly disruptive / dynamic survival situations is also essential, as these experts discuss and advise: confidence vs. fear, courage is contagious, and skills-building is fun and a great way to connect with others and learn from each other.
About Don, Henry, and Miranda
Don Hall is currently Training Coordinator for Transition Network International and the author of The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform Your World. He has served in a variety of capacities throughout the international Transition Towns Movement over the past seventeen years, including as Education & Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, Founder and Executive Director of Transition Sarasota (Florida), and Executive Director of Transition US. Don holds a Master’s in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, a certification in Permaculture Design from the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute, and blogs at evolutionarychange.org. He wrote the Transition Network International case study vignette for Our Biggest Deal.
Henry Mitchell is a seasoned Disaster Planner and Emergency Manager with experience spanning the public, private, and nonprofit sectors (in coordination with local law enforcement, state agency, and federal agency partners). He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response for the State of Colorado, where he leads initiatives in disaster preparedness, planning, and response coordination, with a strong focus on human-centered leadership, biosecurity, environmental justice, and effective grant management. Henry has played a key role in some of the most critical emergencies in recent years, including leading local government COVID-19 responses, managing emergency operations centers, and serving on incident management teams and as EOC manager during major events such as the Marshall Fire. His approach is defined by a commitment to producing high-quality, functional emergency plans, using trauma-informed principles, and maintaining a calm, steady presence in high-pressure situations. Driven by the belief that emergency management work has a profound and lasting impact on communities, Henry emphasizes thoughtful, inclusive strategies that reflect the lived realities of those affected by disasters. He is Founder and CEO of World Aware Emergency Preparedness LLC (beworldaware.com), which provides consulting and preparedness products and advising services for governments, communities, institutions, and families. He wrote the essay “Planning and Preparedness for Community Resilience” for Our Biggest Deal.
Miranda Clendening is a regenerative community developer, researcher, and global speaker who lives in Boulder, Colorado. She is the Chief Coordinator at The Riverside Boulder: Rivertree Sanctuary/1World Academy/1Team Coordination Hub/ Renewal Center and serves as the Director of Operations and Community Development at the Empowerment Institute’s Center for Reinventing the Planet for their Peace on Earth by 2030 Game, which is now active in 69 countries. She is a U.N. Ambassador to Africa and has been part of the Global Science and Technology Innovations Summits for the U.N. SDGs since 2018. Miranda is also the Chief Ambassador at UNIFY.org and a core business developer for the ONEBoulder/ONELocal and CoreNexus Technology Platforms. She co-leads these initiatives with a focus on advancing evolutionary leadership and social architecture through innovative research and technology to regenerate the Earth and its systems for a thriving and abundant future for all of us. She wrote the essay “The Mycelial Model for Planetary Prosperity: Community Mobilization, Global Connectivity, and Technological Amplification” for Our Biggest Deal.
Resources & Related Episodes
Rivertree-food-flow.lovable.app
Ep. 174 – Henry Mitchell IV – “Master of Disaster” re: Disaster Preparedness & Community Resilience
Ep. 19 – Brigitte Mars and the Power of Herbal Medicine
Ep. 5 – Stephanie Syson – Herb Farming, Growing Biodynamic Medicine
Vlog Post – Aaron Perry for Wilson Sonsini Law Firm – Simple Actions to do on Earth Day & Every Day
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AndCO Hospitality, Bluestone Life, The Brad & Lindsay Lidge Family Foundation, Clean Content,Climate First Bank, Dobrosphera Kind Media Group, Earth Coast Productions, Gaia.AI, Goodstead Financial, Husch Blackwell, Launch Legal, Patagonia’s Home Planet Fund, Regenerative World Quest, The Riverside Boulder, Shaye Skiff Communications, SoundLight Foundation, Verona Rylander Philanthropies, and Wele Waters.
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