LONG-TERM RESILIENCE

Building Long-Term Climate Resilience with Renewable Energy

Our experience in the field has taught us that preparation and community involvement is the best way to build climate resilience. We share local networks, cooperate with like-mind organizations and install permanent microgrids to help make communities more resilient.

After years enacting rapid disaster response efforts we learned that a larger, community-based plan would help people build back greener and smarter.

Our developing Long Term Resilience plans include: 

  • Developing Beehive Microgrids in strategic, vulnerable locations

  • Facilitating networks of community organizations, grassroots infrastructure experts and supportive businesses at events like Resilience Fest

Beehive Microgrids™ Build Climate Resilience

Beehive Microgrids™ provide communities affected by climate disasters with rapidly deployable, sustainable infrastructure that can be moved where and when it’s needed most. These flexible systems serve both “blue sky” (nice weather) and “grey sky” (disaster response) needs as a renewable energy hub that provides shelter, electricity, clean water and a reliable space to gather and rebuild.

As of late 2025, we have one fully-functional Beehive and two currently in funding and development. As a part of our larger, long-term resilience plan, we will continue to seek support to develop more Beehives. 

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    • 30% available for “Blue Sky” uses such as office space, event use or community hub

    • 30% reserved equipment warehoused to be prepared for climate-related incidents

    • 30% equipment out at work within the community

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Resilience Fest: Collaborating for Sustainable Solutions

In late July 2025, Footprint Project brought together like-minded organizations and supporters in Black Mountain, NC to forge a future of reliance, cooperation and action in the face of increasing climate-driven disasters.

Over three days we shared, learned, listened, healed and became inspired to do even better in our field. Workshops and talks ranged from building a solar trailer to mapping our experiences with disaster to discussing funding grassroots resilience projects. Organizing an event like this before the next storm arrives allows us to reflect on the work we do within climate resilience so we can work smarter and better in the long-term.

Statistics

$50k in sponsorship

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24 workshops & panel discussions

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$100k+ put back into the Western NC Community

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  • Participants in a creative mapmaking workshop document their experience of disaster by making maps.

    Participants in a creative mapmaking workshop document their experience of disaster by making maps.

  • Three women sitting at a table, with a woman standing and holding a large paper with drawings and notes, while a band plays live music in the background at an outdoor event.

    Participants share their work from the “Mapping Your Personal Journey Through Disaster.”

  • A group of people attending a presentation or workshop inside a large wooden barn or pavilion. The attendees are seated, facing a stage with speakers and a screen displaying the word 'Resilience'. The barn has high, sloped wooden ceiling and visible rafters.

    Resilience Fest attendees listen to a panel.

  • Two women construction workers wearing white safety helmets and gloves, working on a rooftop with power tools and equipment.

    A team collaborates in a hands-on workshop to “Build a Haven Solar Shelter.”

  • A group of six smiling people sitting at a wooden table with electronic tools and wires, working on a project, outdoors under a covered area, with additional people in the background engaged in similar activities.

    A group learns how to make a solar powered mechanical sculpture with artist Alex Nathanson.

  • Group of six people gathered outdoors around a rectangular white board with small robots and tools on it, engaged in a robotics activity. The setting is a grassy area with trees and bushes, with a red building on the left and a gravel pathway in the background. One girl is walking on the pathway with a backpack and a book.

    Individuals from the Solar Art Workshop test out their sun-powered sculptures.

  • Three men working on a metal structure outdoors with a green and red building and plants in the background.

    A group learns how to install solar on a trailer with volunteers from Schneider Electric.

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“The wide spectrum of organizations represented - from disaster aid groups, advocacy organizations, neighborhood org, clean tech companies, and government officials - it made for an unusual and impactful mix.”

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