CIEDM Actions on WTAD 2025 @ Arcadia Ecohome

As a member of disaster ready communities such as the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR), we’ve actively taken part in the regional, national and global awareness campaigns for tsunami-related disaster preparedness and resiliency throughout October, including the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) on October 13, the Great ShakeOut/the Great California ShakeOut on October 16, and the California Flood Preparedness Week on October 18-25.

We practitioners at CIEDM are staying engaged in November by participating in the World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) on November 5 with following grassroots actions:

1) A revisit to UNDRR, PreventionWeb, UNESCO, UN-Habitat and other websites, and read relevant news and materials, such as NPR.org’s timely published article on WTAD about the story of the needs and challenges for a waterfront hospital in Oregon coast to fortify its building that is able to withstand a tsunami with a tsunami evacuation zone, in order to expand and update our own capacities for readiness;

2) A social media campaign such as this to raise public awareness of and preparedness for tsunami strikes; and

3) A cleanup of the Arcadia Ecohome’s Ocean Friendly Garden and public street right-of-way encompassing roadways, parking lane, curb & gutter, sidewalk and parkway in front of the Ecohome, so as to reduce stormwater and plastic pollutions that are harmful and degrading the health of our coastal ecology with defensible capacities to mitigate tsunami strikes.