Building Resilience To Disasters

The impacts of climate change are already being felt across North America increasing the frequency and intensity of hazards such as floods, wildfires, drought, extreme heat, tropical storms, melting permafrost. In a changing climate, these events are increasingly likely to strike at the same time and place, exacerbating and compounding the hazardous consequences. These hazards pose significant risks to communities, individual health and well-being, the economy, and the natural environment.

Moreover, many Indigenous communities are among the most vulnerable to climate change due to their remote and coastal locations, lack of access to Emergency Management (EM) services, and reliance on natural ecosystems. As the human and economic costs of climate disasters continue to mount, we face a choice.

We can continue to respond to disasters as they unfold or we can proactively prepare for them, mitigating the worst of the damages or avoiding them altogether. It is therefore critical that disasters be seen through the lens of reducing risk of and building resilience to disasters, rather than just a response to a one-off disaster event.

Our Mission

Our mission is to reduce disaster risk and increase the resiliency of communities by providing effective innovative technological tools that empower local resources against natural disasters such as coastal flooding, drought, earthquake, heat wave, hurricane (tropical cyclone), landslide, riverine flooding, tornado, tsunami, volcanic activity, and wildfire.

We believe, the only way we can stand a chance against ever worsening impacts of climate change is to shape true resilient communities. Having access to reliable power and water in all conditions including before, during and after disasters, are the pillars of becoming resilient. Depending on centralized utility systems which easily become impaired by disasters is a recipe for failure.

Record breaking wildfires have become the norm in past few years. A true resilient community should have some capabilities to defend itself without depending on outside world for everything. Events such as Lytton BC 2021 wildfire have proved that focusing on response alone cannot save communities in long term.

We are committed to provide climate adaptable self-sufficient resiliency solutions that can help communities achieve net-zero emissions while provide support in all phases of EM: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery.