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Toma Resilience Campus

What began as a wish to use the Blue Lake Rancheria’s onsite electrical microgrids as “learning laboratories,” combined with the need to bring more resources to remote Northern California, grew to become a multi-functional venue that deploys programs to support regional resilience strategies.

The Toma Resilience Campus (“toma” means “sun” in the Wiyot Language) creates dedicated space for activities to build resilience capacity across the lifeline sectors (energy, water, food, communication/IT, and transportation).

Toma areas of focus include disaster preparedness, truly clean energy, “smart” technologies, light manufacturing, and sustainable food production.

Toma Goals

Regional resilience :: Local people trained to solve local problems
Entrepreneurship :: Develop leaders and businesses for the economies of today and tomorrow
Workforce development and training :: “PK-grey” hands-on skill-building and state-of-the-art training
Economic opportunity :: New jobs and engagement in the “resilience innovation marketplace”
Climate action :: New techniques in disaster preparedness and lifeline sector infrastructure that reduce greenhouse gases at the same time – to reduce the severity of disasters as resilience increases.

Toma Features

Available now, current trainings focus on government and business disaster preparedness and planning, workforce development, and cross-sector resilience and lifeline sector education. For training schedules, please visit: Resilience Training and Innovation Center (RTIC).

The following are on schedule to open in 2021! Please check back here for updates!

To channel the powerful entrepreneurial spirit of the North Coast of California, the Resilience Business Incubator at the Toma offers low-cost amenities to start-ups and enterprises in early stages of development. Services include office spaces, meeting/training rooms, IT equipment and infrastructure, and business support services (e.g., development, marketing, finance, operations, HR, others). Tenants also have access to certain other TOMA components.

This new retail space will offer disaster preparedness supplies, Toma incubator tenants’ products, an innovation showroom, and a point-of-sale for online orders. Pop-up markets, and other retail partnerships will provide additional outlets for product discoveries and collaborations. Educational areas will help ground retail operations and highlight why local and thoughtful shopping is so very important for resilience and economic outcomes.

The Toma Resilience Campus is powered by the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe’s low-carbon electric community microgrid. In regional power outages, the Toma will still have power in most cases, and this power is generated by the Toma’s own rooftop solar array and battery storage system. Additional power comes from other solar power and battery storage in the microgrid.

“Toma” means “sun” in the Wiyot Language. The Blue Lake Rancheria is located within the ancestral territory of the Wiyot people.

TRC

Toma Resilience
Campus:

TEL: 707.668.5101
FAX: 707.668.4272
EMAIL: info@bluelakerancheria-nsn.gov

MAILING ADDRESS
(for U.S. Postal Service):
Blue Lake Rancheria
PO BOX 428
Blue Lake, CA 95525

OFFICE LOCATION &
PHYSICAL ADDRESS
(for FedEx, UPS):
Blue Lake Rancheria
1 Aee ye kwee Loop
Blue Lake, CA 95525