If you look at the work happening in LA with water advocacy, especially in how it relates to climate resilience, you’ll find Accelerate Resilience L.A. (ARLA). Join this inspiring and activating conversation with the team, sharing their hopeful and healing vision for Los Angeles in a time of climate change.

We dive into ARLA’s work for a water sufficient Los Angeles. In this conversation, we wind through the mythologies of LA as a place of water scarcity that needs to extract water from other places in order to survive. The ARLA team evokes the cultural shifts necessary for Angelinos to be in relationship with water and see their region as a life-giving watershed rather than a desert.

The team also talks about the tangible infrastructure changes needed to help the municipalities of LA be water sufficient. They describe the exciting development of the Infrastructure Field Kit platform, enabling communities and groups to develop water conserving and regenerating projects.

About Accelerate Resilience L.A. (ARLA)

Accelerate Resilience L.A. (ARLA) envisions Los Angeles as a climate-resilient region that is safer, healthier, and more prepared for our increasingly dangerous climate reality. They engage in capacity building, cross-sector collaboration, and community engagement to advance multi-benefit approaches that are key to developing individual and collective climate resilience.

Hosted by: Kate Bunney

Produced & Edited by: Anne Carol Mitchell

Intro music by: Mamuse 'River Run Free' - featuring Walter Strauss

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