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Resilient DeKalb

The ReDKB architecture

Every name is an action.

Each flagship turns a resilience goal into a clear body of work residents can understand, follow and connect to real County initiatives.

13 flagship areas

Ten currently contain identified initiatives; ReUse, ReRoute and ReCharge remain in early scoping while supporting policy and infrastructure work advances.

Clean, renewable energy generation and procurement across County operations.

Build a cleaner, more reliable energy portfolio through efficiency, solar, microgrids and resilient power systems.

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Emissions

ReDuce

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, fleet and operations.

Measure operational emissions, reduce avoidable energy use and sequence conversions against verified baselines.

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Stormwater, watershed health and water resilience.

Protect waterways, strengthen watershed performance and use infrastructure data to guide recovery and investment.

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Waste diversion, composting and the circular economy.

Move from estimated waste data to measured performance while expanding recycling, organics education and material recovery.

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Materials

ReUse

Keeping materials and resources in service longer.

Reduce purchasing and disposal pressure through reuse, repair, recovery and life-cycle material decisions.
Projects for this area will be added after baseline, operating and policy dependencies are defined. No initiative has been invented to fill the space.

Mobility

ReRoute

Cleaner mobility and transportation systems.

Connect residents and County operations to safer, lower-emission and more accessible ways of moving.
Projects for this area will be added after baseline, operating and policy dependencies are defined. No initiative has been invented to fill the space.

Charging

ReCharge

EV charging and energy-storage infrastructure.

Coordinate charging capacity, energization, networking, data ownership and geospatial asset registration.
Projects for this area will be added after baseline, operating and policy dependencies are defined. No initiative has been invented to fill the space.

Buildings

ReBuild

High-performance, resilient and healthy buildings.

Move from estimated waste data to measured performance while expanding recycling, organics education and material recovery.
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Tree canopy, urban forestry and natural cooling.

Protect and expand tree canopy to support cooling, stormwater management, habitat and healthier neighborhoods.
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Benefits and opportunity for historically underserved communities.

Direct resilience benefits, investment and energy opportunity toward communities carrying the greatest burdens.
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Workforce

ReSkill

Green workforce development and local jobs.

Build a local pipeline for energy, efficiency, canopy, resilience and public-infrastructure work.
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Community health, wellness and food access.

Connect environmental performance to food access, community wellbeing and healthy neighborhood conditions.
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The funding spine that capitalizes the work.

Align finance, scorecards, grants and performance evidence so priority projects can move from concept to delivery.

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