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-I am Seattle's Climate 
Action Plan advisor.

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The city is putting together
an update to the Climate Action Plan,

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which is an effort to reduce pollution
and build a more affordable

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and equitable and resilient city
for all of Seattle.

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Here in Seattle,
we're experiencing hotter summers.

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Our air quality is changing significantly
during those hot summers, with wildfire

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smoke in other parts of the season
are patterns have changed.

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We've always been known as a rainy city,
but those rainstorms are more intense

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and more extreme, and that really is
impacting the way that we live.

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So the Office of Sustainability
Environment is a department that's looking

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to create a clean and healthy environment
for all Seattle residents.

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We do that in a variety of different ways,
whether that's clean energy

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and buildings to urban forestry program,
to creating sustainable food solutions.

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A lot of what I do
is actually bring people together.

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That means city leaders, community
leaders, tribal and government partners

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to help inform the planning process
and to make sure that our solutions

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are representative of the 
communities that we serve.

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So I grew up in

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Bellingham, Washington
and went to Western Washington University,

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which has

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a lot of environmental education,

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which I think really showcased
the foundation of my work.

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And while I was at Western,
I also worked as a medical interpreter.

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And that really, I think, helped build
a foundation of just an understanding

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of how systems and structures
work in a very complex system.

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I'm a parent to two young children,
and I think that in raising little people

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really helps actually connect
to a lot of the work that we do.

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Their favorite way to go around
town is on light rail.

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They also love to garden and just finding
sustainable ways in our everyday lives.

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Some of those solutions
can be part of everyday decisions,

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and at the same time,
some of the larger challenges

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can be accomplished
when we do that work together.

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We've been working on the Climate Action
Plan for just over a year,

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but the city has been doing this work
for for many, many years.

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And I think that the solutions

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that we are working on with our community
partners is really inspiring.

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But we also need to do work in
how we prepare our communities

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for the different challenges
that are ahead of us, and work together

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to build a community
and a future that's safe

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for not just our current generations,
but also our future generations.

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