"The future of our NH Seacoast city might depend on us, and we have one hour to reach an agreement. I look to the “city engineer” and the “conservation commission chair” with hope. If they can see past their differences about changing stormwater regulations, and realize that they both want the same thing –a resilient community–we might get the others to agree too. Welcome to my evening at the Dover Climate Change Adaptation Role-play Simulation Workshop. Almost as soon as we entered the room, the thirty or so community participants split into six small groups and assumed new identities. My friend Lindsey was no longer her UNH researcher self; she was a homeowner concerned with the tax burden in our make-believe city called Northam. Over pizza and Greek salad, we studied our roles and promptly got into character and down to business."

-Kirsten Howard Read on at The Crow's Nest blog.