With extreme weather events like Hurricane Ida happening so frequently, communities around the U.S. are considering their own preparedness. This week, Memphis Metropolis sat down with Jared Darby from the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Sustainability and Resilience. After the severe local flooding in 2011, Shelby County received federal grant funding to craft a resilience plan and just as importantly, build projects that would help mitigate future flooding. On the show, Jared discusses those ongoing projects and more.

Later in the program, regular commentator Charlies Santo from the University of Memphis came by for a deeper dive into the meaning of resilience and the importance of social vulnerability in addressing it. Charlie and Emily also discussed the Regional Greenprint Plan, which built the foundation for local sustainability efforts and indirectly also ushered in a new era of planning in Memphis and Shelby County.

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Memphis and Shelby County Resilience Plan