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I remember the moment<\/strong> I couldn\u2019t deny my climate anxiety any longer. It was September 2017, and an ethereal, orange-red light was shining through our window, landing at the feet of my then-six-month-old baby. The beauty of the scene was eclipsed by the source of the light\u2014a sun obscured by wildfire smoke blown in from the Eagle Creek Fire<\/a> that was raging in the Columbia River Gorge to the east of where I lived in Portland, Oregon. The scene of my baby amidst a seeming apocalypse highlighted a dual crisis: raising a child in a dying world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feeling was overwhelming, and it resulted in me beginning to focus my writing toward the intersection of climate change and disaster preparedness<\/a>. My anxiety prompted me to prepare by stocking up on food and water and creating go-bags. Preparing alone felt futile. But in early 2024, during a freak ice storm that blanketed the city in a sheet of ice for several days, when I could barely walk across the street to deliver bread to my elderly neighbor, I remembered a conversation I\u2019d had with a colleague and friend Noelle Studer-Spevak a couple years before. She told me about living in a cohousing community<\/a>. Initially I\u2019d dismissed the concept; it made me think of living with roommates<\/a>. But after that winter storm, I wondered: would these communities be more prepared for an uncertain future because of a shared agreement to support one another?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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