As we mark another Earth Day, Beth brings her presentation ”Bridging the Gap: Neighbors, Plans, and the La Crosse We’re Building Together” – an honest faith-rooted conversation born from her own curiosity and concern. Beth has been exploring how our city and county are preparing for extreme weather and climate change from formal climate action plans to the exciting possibility of resilience hubs: schools, libraries, and community spaces designed to shelter, power, and support neighborhoods when planetary health is imbalanced. We have professionals working towards this, but somewhere between City Hall and our kitchen tables, our houses of worship and our block associations, the information isn’t reaching us. We are the everyday people who will actually show up for each other when things get hard.Beth is not an expert with all the answers, She’s here as a neighbor asking out loud: What do we know? What don’t we know? And what could be built together if we started closing that gap right now? Beth believes the most important thing we can do ahead of the next storm and as part of our children’s future, is to start talking – with each other and with the people already working on our behalf.

Beth Piggush is a La Crosse based climate justice organizer, sustainability educator, and consultant whose work sits at the intersection of community resilience, ecological stewardship and faith-rooted action. As founder of GreenR Community Connections, she supports municipal climate action planning across the Driftless region, lectures in Environmental Studies at UWL, and draws on her background as the former Integral Ecology Director for the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. She is active in the community, supported by her husband and three daughters. She is also the newly elected LaCrosse County Board Supervisor for District 7 in the city.

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