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From YouTube: The Grant Street Experience: Rebecca Kiernan
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On this debut episode of The Grant Street Experience, City of Pittsburgh Chief Resilience Officer Grant Ervin talks with Principal Resilience Planner Rebecca Kiernan.
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Hi
I'm
grant
Irvin
the
chief
resilience
officer
for
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
and
welcome
to
the
Grant
Street
experience.
This
is
an
experimental
podcast
that
we're
developing
here
at
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
to
help
collect
some
of
the
unique
characters
that
work
here
with
us
on
Grant,
Street,
so
kind
of
the
confluence
of
activities
and
innovation
on
just
general,
interesting
folks
that
we
meet
every
day
working
here
in
local
government
in
the
great
city
of
Pittsburgh
I'm.
Here
with
my
first
guest
Rebecca
Kiernan
principal
resilience,
planner
Rebecca
welcome,
Thank.
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We
have
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
folks
like
to
meet
here
in
local
governments,
a
lot
of
meetings,
a
lot
of
meetings,
so
we
wanted
to
capture
that
for
posterity's
sake
and
the
opportunity
to
share
that
with
the
residents
some
of
the
interesting
things
that
we
see.
So
it's
a
little
bit
West
Wing
a
little
bit
Parks
and
Rec
a
little
bit
Spin
City
I,
think,
is
what
we're
looking
at
here
to
kind
of
share
these
little
aspects
with
us.
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Typically,
I
ride
my
bicycle:
okay,
so
I
take
the
Eliza
furnace
trail
and
I,
make
it
to
Grant
Street,
which
is
a
pretty
nice
ride,
but
today
I
had
to
get
a
special
ride,
because
I
had
some
baggage
with
me.
This
lovely
velvet
unicorn,
which
I
felt
would
make
a
really
nice
set
prop
for
you
for
your
first
podcast.
Thank.
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How
do
you
want
up
velvet
unicorn
I,
don't
know
I
mean
that's.
That's
like
a
big,
that's
a
big
thing
there.
So
so
you
travel
II,
don't
bike
every
day,
you're
you're
a
bike
commuter!
You
know
one
of
the
things
that
always
I
find
interesting
with
that
is.
You
always
have
some
like
pretty
good
stories
about
bike
commuting
of.
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From
a
job
title
means
job
title
made
sense
in
terms
of
like
your
interest
areas
and
everything
now
I.
Remember
you
had
a
kind
of
an
interesting
story.
You
know,
I
was
gonna,
have
to
ask
this.
You
had
an
interesting
story
before
you
started
here,
because
you
had
a
job
that
you
had
to
do
right
between
leaving
moon
and
starting
at
the
city.
You
had
kind
of
a
smoky
and
the
Bandit
type
of
moment
I
think
was
delivering.
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You
know
we
got
to
meet
a
lot
of
different
people
and
do
a
lot
of
different
projects
with
that
is
in
one
of
the
things
you
did
was
you
ever
saw
the
platform
partnership
so
like
all
these
companies
and
agencies
that
are
trying
to
help
cities.
Was
there
anything
that,
like
really
stuck
out
for
you
like
a
project
wise,
it
was
like
wow.
This
was
like
eye
opening
and
we
really
learned
something
or.
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So
because
we're
kind
of
in
a
bowl,
you
know
there's
hillsides
around
in
a
version
event,
it's
when
the
temperature
rises
suddenly
and
the
hot
air
traps
the
cooler
air
down
below
so
like
in
the
morning.
Typically,
this
will
happen.
Okay,
it
seems
like
in
my
estimation,
but
the
the
warm
air
traps,
the
cold
air
down
below,
and
then
the
pollution
also
gets
trapped
in
there.
Okay.
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So
what
pit
had
was
data
that
kind
of
started
to
locate
where
people
might
have
asthma
issues
or
other
respiratory
issues
throughout
the
city?
It
was
kind
of
evenly
dispersed,
so
it's
not
like
at
the
actual
households,
but
so
they
were
able
to
model
where
the
phone
calls
were
coming
in
for
people
having
you
know,
911
calls
right.
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And
and
as
I
remember
like,
there
was
kind
of
like
a
lot
of
pushback,
whether
well,
this
isn't
what
the
city
or
the
system's
made
for,
and
you
know
we're
looking
at
like
the
spread
of
influenza
or
Ebola
or
other
types
of
so.
This
was
like
kind
of
a
different
scenario
that
you
presented
to
them
and,
and
what
were
some
of
the
results
are
in
terms
of
kind
of
that.
If
modeling
exercise
well.
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Of
the
things
I
thought
was
kind
of
interesting
about.
That,
though,
was
it
was
the
the
folks
in
the
public
health
agencies
and
the
emergency
management
agencies
aren't
typically
connected
in
a
pre-emptive
way
right,
so
they're
coming
together
when
there
is
something
serious
right
and
just
like
building
those
human
relationships
between
people,
I
thought
was
one
of
the
you
know:
here's
technology
and
a
synthetic
population
model,
but
it
was
actually
like
some
of
those
human
connections
that
we
were
able
to
start
to
build
with
folks
that
you
know
changing
business
cards
and
things
like
that.
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Do
you
definitely
happened?
Do
you
see
I
mean
a
lot
of
stuff
that
you
know
you
kind
of
get
involved
with
is
like
long-term,
like
thinking
about
climate
change,
thinking
about
adaptation,
but
what
are
some
of
like
those
near-term
exercises
that
are
really
kind
of
the
most
positive
things
that
you've
been
able
to
build.
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So
Microsoft
actually
had
incidences
like
that
that
they've
they've
intercepted,
so
they
were
kind
of
basing
some
of
it
on
fact,
but
we
had
you
know
a
lot
of
our
IT
department.
That
was
there
and
it
was
just
you
know
another
kind
of
interesting
scenario,
a
thought
thought
exercise
on
cybersecurity.
It's.
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Kind
of
fascinating
for
me
about
those
two
is
that
they
end
up
yielding
a
lot
of
quick-quick
direct
outcomes
mm-hm.
You
know
so
like
that.
One
in
particular
like
all
of
a
sudden,
then
we're
starting
to
hire
security
engineers
and
we're
segregating
kind
of
the
IT
pipelines
for
the
energy
intelligence
network,
and
things
like
that.
So
all
of
a
sudden,
you're
learning
quick
lessons
that
you
can
apply
readily
mm-hmm.
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Mean
do
you
think
that
that's
kind
of
like
going
to
be
that
the
the
nature
of
kind
of
planning
in
the
future
is
because
things
are
constantly
changing?
It's
such
a
quick
rate
and
speed.
I,
don't
know
if
you
could
talk
to
that,
like
the
things
that
you're
thinking
about
like
take
out
app
tation,
for
example,
right
like
so
three
years
ago,
we
didn't
have
the
amount
of
present
precipitation
that
we
have
today.
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Know
the
changing
climate.
Well,
now,
how
do
we
prepare
for
it
so
I
think
a
lot
of
the
stuff
is
just
like
new
territory
that
nobody
really
knows
how
to
deal
with
yet,
but
I
think
the
more
we
can
track
it
and
figure
out
what
we're
seeing
in
terms
of
our
own
impacts.
We
can
start
to
adapt
and
you
know
try
to.
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Worms
are
not
native
to
the
area.
I
didn't
really
know
this
either,
and
so
they
came
in
there's
something
about
the
ice
age
and
the
glaciers
and
they've
moved
up
from
the
south,
but
they're
everywhere,
because
people
use
them
in
their
gardens
yeah
if
you've
ever
seen,
one
worm
case
castings
castings
casings.
It's
like
the
worm,
poop
that
yeah
it's
your
garden
and
it's
all
because
the
worms
eat
it
up
and
it
gets
its
like
loose
soil.
Okay,
you've
seen
that
in
like
potting
soil,
yeah.
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Coyotes
in
morningside,
oh
yeah,
I
seen
them.
There
is
a
picture
the
other
day
on
next
door,
Morningside
I'm,
sorry,
I,
live
in
Morningside,
right
and
and
first
everybody's
I
go
it's
a
dog.
You
know
it's
know
and
somebody
who
is
in
the
know
we're
right
next
to
the
zoo.
So
there's
you
know
some
of
the
folks
at
work
in
the
sewer
like:
oh,
no,
that's
a
coyote
and
there's
a
I
guess:
I'm
called
a
herd
that
they're
right.
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Case,
that's
not
there
in
a
lot
of
cases.
So
then
you
have
you
know
your
ecosystem
or
you're
like
our
parks
and
our
greenways
and
our
hillsides
like
they
should
all
be
delivering
some
sort
of
service.
So
like
stormwater
management
or
you
know,
hillside
stabilization,
but
when
none
of
those
plants
exist,
then
it's
not.
You
know
it's
not
doing
anything
for
you.
So
maintaining
a
healthy,
healthy
system
is
really
important.
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Maybe
just
a
transition
a
little
bit
I,
you
know.
One
of
the
questions
I
always
want
to
ask
folks
is
what
are
you
reading?
What
are
you
watching
just
kind
of
personal
for
me
because
I
like
to
pick
up
new
things
and
see
what
else
is
out
there?
So
what
are
what
are
some
things
that
Rebecca
Kiernan's
reading
right
now.
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It's
a
little
frightening
because
I
just
I
think
a
lot
of
like
the
new
technology.
That's
coming
out
a
lot
of
the
you
know
having
a
phone
in
your
pocket
all
the
time
or
you
know
echoes
or
Alexa
or
whoever
a
lot
of
that
is
kind
of
in
the
book
and
it's
sort
of
like
a
you
know,
harbinger
of
what
might
come
if
we
don't
roll
these
things
out
appropriately.
Wow.
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Of
deal
you
know
so
that
that's
pretty
helpful,
that's
that's!
Probably
my
big
watch
I'm
also
like
real
into
YouTube,
because,
like
by
the
time,
I
get
done
with
my
day,
it's
like
like
quick
snippets
of
stuff,
so
that
that's
where
I'm
getting
my
news
and
everything
you
know,
which
is
maybe
a
half
hour
later
an
hour
later,
whatever
it's
just
not
live,
but
kind
of
like
you,
I
am
reading.
Thank
you
for
being
late.
What's
that
which
is
I,
think
I'm
getting
it
right,
so
this
is
Thomas
Friedman's
latest
book.
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Then
they
showed
they
expands
of
that
meet.
I
haven't
watched
us
in
a
while,
but
the
pants
of
that
meeting,
where
you
know
the
people
who
are
the
head
of
Chernobyl
and
some
of
the
government
are
claiming
it
didn't
nothing's
going
on
and
for
you
know,
a
couple
episodes
which
I
think
was
over
the
span
of
a
couple
of
days.
There
was
a
lot
of
just
no
that's
not
happening
like.
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Above
it's
pretty
fascinating,
I
mean
two
things
that
happens.
Is
you
start
to
understand
that
the
geopolitics
of
it
so
its
proximity
to
things
whether
it's
Kiev
or
Western,
Europe
and
you
know
I
think-
was
like
the
Swedes
were
the
first
to
kind
of
know
or
they're?
You
know,
detectors,
kind
of
went
off
or
whatever
so
like.
You
know,
just
how
kind
of
weather
works
and
geopolitics
works,
and
then
you
look
at
the
actual
site
and
the
town
is
it's
dystopian
yeah.
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With
that
hey,
this
has
been
a
lot
of
fun.
I
think
whether
it's
from
unicorns
to
worm
overpopulation
too
dear
to
pop
culture,
I
think
we've
hit
a
lot
in
the
last
50
plus
minutes
or
so
Rebecca.
I
sincerely
want
to
thank
you
for
all
that
you
do,
for
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
but
probably
most
importantly,
being
the
chief
decorator
for
the
Grant
Street
experience
and
our
first
guest.
Thank
you
so
much
for
being
here
and
sharing
a
little
bit
about
the
work
that
you
do
so
thank.
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Right
I'll
treat
thanks
so
much
thanks
for
being
at
the
Grant
Street
experience.
We
had
a
great
time
on
this.
First
podcast
show
hopefully
you'll
like
it
and
give
us
some
great
insights
on
who
might
be
the
next
guest
and
how
we
can
improve
or
I.
Don't
know
that
we
can
improve
on
our
decor
here,
but
how
we
can
make
this
show
better.
We're
always
looking
to
hear
from
you
out
there.
So
thank
you
so
much
as
grant
urban
will
talk
to
you
soon.