Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience

🌐 Building Resilience Together: The Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience is now on LinkedIn! 🌱 Greetings, LinkedIn community! 👋 We're excited to officially join the platform and share insights into the incredible work happening at the Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience. 🏙️ About Us: The Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience, led by Chief Resilience Officer Jim Murley and Director of Energy and Deputy Chief Resilience Officer Patricia Gomez, Ph.D., is leading Miami-Dade County to a resilient and environmentally sustainable future by identifying vulnerabilities, coordinating stakeholders, and facilitating innovative solutions. 🌊 Key Initiatives: From upgrading infrastructure to tackling sea level rise and climate change, explore our initiatives like Building Efficiency 305, Climate Action Strategy, and the Biscayne Bay Friendly campaign. We're working towards measurable results to make a lasting impact. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eVDvZTJh 📰 Stay Connected: Make sure to follow us on our other socials and join us in creating a more sustainable Miami-Dade County! Facebook: https://lnkd.in/e6gmSF-Q Instagram: https://lnkd.in/eDEdHs_D X: https://lnkd.in/e2ciT4Gm

🌟 Last week, Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience joined Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and the Office of Innovation and Economic Development for the Miami-Dade Insurance Strategy Forum! This event brought together leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to collaborate on addressing the pressing challenges of our property insurance market. 🤝 Through interactive sessions, we tackled key issues such as extreme weather risks, housing affordability, and property risk reduction. 🌧️ As we move forward, the next steps include implementing these strategies and fostering continued collaboration among all stakeholders. 🔜 The work done at this forum marks a critical step towards achieving these goals, and we are dedicated to turning these plans into reality. 🌍✨ Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to build a brighter and more resilient future for all Miami-Dade County residents. #ResilientMiami #InnovativeSolutions #MiamiDadeCounty #InsuranceStrategy #climateresilience #PropertyInsurance #Insurance 

Join us for a Public Workshop on the Miami-Dade County Urban Forestry Plan! 🌳 Miami-Dade County’s Draft Urban Forestry Plan is a blueprint to reach the County’s ambitious goal of 30% urban tree canopy cover. In collaboration with Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, the Miami-Dade County Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces, and Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience, we have developed this draft plan to inform residents, businesses and stakeholders of the state of our urban forests and the challenges they face, so the County can outline steps to advance our goals for an equitable, robust and resilient urban forest system. Trees and our urban forest system are critical for cooling neighborhoods, cleaning stormwater and air pollution, reducing floods, and storing carbon. Our urban tree canopy is an essential part of building a more resilient community where residents in all our corners of #OurCounty can live, work, and thrive. Miami-Dade County cannot achieve these goals alone, which is why your input is so critical. 💬 Join our VIRTUAL public workshop coming up this week: 📅 Date: Thursday, July 25 🕕 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM 💻 Register: https://lnkd.in/edr-DPV5 💬 Join us for an IN PERSON public workshop next week: 📅 Date: Thursday, August 1 🕕 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM 📍 Location: Stephen P. Clark Government Center, 18th Floor, Room 18-4, 111 NW 1st St, Miami, FL 33132 ✅ RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/e2KnhHi5 💬 You can also provide your comments through this online form: https://lnkd.in/eVijv9QK The public feedback period is open until August 16, 2024. Your voice matters in creating a robust, resilient urban forest system for all our neighborhoods. 🌿 To request materials in accessible format, sign language interpreters, and/or any accommodation to participate in any County-sponsored program or meeting, please contact Alain Donderiz at 305-372-6779 or alain.donderiz@miamidade.gov five days in advance to initiate your request. TTY users may also call 711 (Florida Relay Service.) #MiamiDadeResilience #UrbanForestry #CommunityFeedback #GreenMiamiDade #Trees #TreeCanopyCover

Big big energy (savings). 🔌 Congratulations to all winners of the BE305 Challenge Awards! Buildings account for 40% of #OurCounty’s energy use and climate pollution. 🏢 The Building Efficiency 305 (BE305) Challenge initiative helps make buildings across #OurCounty more energy and water efficient through trainings, green assessments and recommendations, saving them tens of thousands of dollars in operating costs.💧 Are you the owner, tenant, and/or manager of a commercial and/or residential building located in Miami-Dade County? 🏪 Sign up for our FREE Building Efficiency 305 (BE305) Challenge here: https://lnkd.in/eiKTHC2H or tap our link in bio for more details!   Thank you to University of Miami for hosting us in their beautiful, Gold LEED Certified Alumni Center! Thank you to all BE305 awardees and partners featured on and off our recap reel 🎥: Marta Marello, Patricia Gomez, Ph.D., Patrick Martin, Ramin Moghaddas, Ibrahim Ahmed, Ph.D., Nadia Tanzeem, Chris Camacho, and many more! #netzero #carbonemissions #zerowaste #solarpanels #solar #energyefficiency #energy #buildingefficiency

Thank you AIA Miami for the opportunity to collaborate and present Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience initiatives. It was an honor to hear Jeffrey Erwin Huber, FAIA, ASLA, LEEDap present his new book #SaltyUrbanism Special thanks to Reinaldo Borges and Robert Werthamer for organizing another great event. Thanks to Christian Kamrath, Marta Marello and Robert Colón for attending the event with me. I am looking forward to the continued collaboration!

Check out the video below to hear from Patricia Gomez, Ph.D., our Interim Chief Resilience Officer, on the role that transportation plays in climate change, including how ultra fast chargers are crucial in reducing pollution in our community. ⚡ #Transportation is the largest contributor to climate pollution across #OurCounty. These ultra-fast chargers are crucial in helping residents embrace and adopt electric vehicle technology. 🚙🔌 To make the rapid progress #OurCounty needs to achieve its carbon reduction goals, it will take #innovation from all parts of society, including how the government works with the private sector to partner on accelerating project financing and implementation. 🔜

Hot girl summer ❌ Cool elephant summer ✅ With #ExtremeHeat on the rise, it’s essential for everyone, including Zoo Miami animal friends 🐘 to stay cool and hydrated. We’re honored to have teamed up with Zoo Miami and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) for an enrichment opportunity to help elephants like Nellie stay cool and make a splash with the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department.

We are excited to share that the ClimateReady Tech Hub has been awarded $19.5 million in federal funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration! This crucial investment will accelerate regional technology and innovation-led growth by boosting the capacity to manufacture, commercialize, and deploy key climate technologies. This milestone wouldn't have been possible without the hard work and dedication of our more than 70 hub partners. We extend our heartfelt thanks to all our steering committee members for their tireless efforts and late hours dedicated to this project: Francesca de Quesada Covey, Terri-Ann Brown, Leigh-Ann Buchanan, Esq., Randy Deshazo, Pamela B. Berkowsky, Michael Berkowitz, Adam Friedman, Joanne P., Katherine O’Fallon, David A. Duckenfield. More exciting details to come! https://lnkd.in/epz3UvCJ

Yesterday, the Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience was honored to join Miami-Dade County DTPW for the groundbreaking ceremony of the South Dade Transit Operations Center (SDTOC), the first of its kind in the United States. 🚏🚍 This state-of-the-art facility will support #OurCounty’s expanding fleet with 100 brand-new 60-ft articulated electric buses; a major stride in our climate action strategy. 🔌 The SDTOC will not only charge, store, and maintain these zero-emissions buses, but also create over 270 jobs in the process. 👷🏼♂️ KEY FEATURES 🔑 OF THE SOUTH DADE TRANSIT OPERATIONS CENTER: 🔋 Rapid charging stations for 100 New Flyer electric buses 🥈 Envision Silver Certification 🏢 Solar capability - future installation of solar to offset facility energy usage 💦 Reclaimed water system for environmentally friendly bus washing 🌳 A native tree area with over 45 species of trees, native plants, and wildflowers ⛈️ Can be used as an Emergency Command Center in a major storm or emergency The SDTOC will support the new South Dade TransitWay as part of the SMART Program. 🚌 The project is scheduled to be completed in 2026 with portions opening as soon as Summer 2025. 📆 Preconstruction included the careful removal and relocation of trees in the area, with steps to mitigate impacts to native wildlife, such as bats. 🦇 We’re excited to see the positive impacts this project will bring, including improved transit services, minimized environmental impacts, and community connectivity. 🌍🚍 #MiamiDadeResilience #Sustainability #ElectricBuses #climateaction #transit 

The Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience is thrilled to share the success of last week’s “Planting Trees to Celebrate Climate Justice” tree planting event at the Carol City United Methodist Church, where our Chief Heat Officer Jane Gilbert joined hands with the community to make a positive impact on our environment. 🌿 This event was organized in partnership with United Women in Faith, Citizens for a Better South Florida, and Greater Miami Service Corps. 🛐 Over 40 enthusiastic #volunteers of all ages accomplished remarkable feats, including: 🌳 Planting #trees around the property perimeter 🌳 Removing invasive plants and replacing them with flowering #native species 🌳 Restoring an asphalt area with pioneering Wild Tamarind trees 🌳 Providing Miami Gardens residents with native trees to adopt for their homes We extend our heartfelt thanks to James Duncan, H. Leigh Toney, Britany Ziems, MBA, and Pastor Brookins for their outstanding leadership in making this event a success! 🫶 #MiamiDadeCounty #OfficeOfResilience #Resilience #ResilientCommunities #Resilient305