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Sara Kane

Sara Kane is the Sustainability and Resilience Manager for Sarasota County, Florida, and a 2026 Climate Champion nominee recognized for her leadership in climate adaptation and resilience.

Oct 1, 2026

22:18
What environmental issues do you feel like your residents deal with most? Just in the
22:25
last few years, of course, flooding and hurricanes have been a huge issue for us in Sarasota and this whole Tampa Bay region.
22:33
But in 2024, we have the three major hurricanes a lot of flooded neighborhoods, neighborhoods that never expected to be flooded or had never been flooded before.
22:41
Of course, you always think about the coastal areas getting flooded, but we also had inland areas because we had a huge rainstorm in the first hurricane that we had for the season.
22:52
just really planning to reduce that, make our community more resilient.
22:57
And we did our adaptation plan and we're working on that and projects.
23:03
But also I think right now too, it's like affordability issues and energy burden that we have in our community.
23:40
You just told me a big win, right? Are there any other big wins that you feel like you'd want to share if any of your residents were listening? Big environmental ways that you're combating a lot of those challenges? Yeah,

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