Six ideas and eight suggestions to improve a community’s ability to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE as the scales of emergencies grow.

I had an “allergic reaction” this summer to some language people around me are using to invite climate action: “be a first responder.” And so, I sit and write as a means to scratch the itch. What I found: As the scale of emergency grows, the ability of community to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE becomes imperative.