This page is updated seasonally.

If you are not getting a timely response via email or social media, please forgive me. It’s likely that your inquiry simply doesn’t fall into the handful of areas of focus for me right now. I receive a fair amount of requests from folks both locally and afar, but I need to reserve my time for my projects listed below. Thank you for understanding.

Here’s what I’m working on right now, in the spring of 2026…

Every time we have a natural disaster tragedy somewhere in the world – widespread wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, massive flooding in places like Texas, hurricane tragedies in the Caribbean and Southeast, the devastation of the Los Angeles fires, and of course the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic – the ever-growing response to my Prepared Neighborhoods book increases.

I’ve taken the book’s message nationwide—including FEMA’s National Preparedness Symposium—presenting my unique perspective of looking at community preparedness through a lens of love, rather than fear.

After investing 15 years of pro bono service to build my related nonprofit Bainbridge Prepares and our award-winning partnership with a municipality and a fire district (voted the Volunteer Organization of the Year by the International Association of Emergency Managers), I’ve retired from active leadership to launch a new spin-off nonprofit to bring our best practices to the rest of North America (and beyond!). Here’s a sneak peek.

I have deep gratitude for the opportunity to also take care of my amazing clients (capped at five or less at any given time) who are directly bringing benefit to this world…folks like these.

In addition to these new exciting projects, I continue to focus on building resilience into my family’s life, as well as in our community. Right now that specifically looks like us starting our annual “seedling shuffle” between our grow lights, greenhouse, and hugelkultur beds on our permaculture micro-farm. My wife and I also love spending time with the two super-neat human beings who are our young adult children, as well as a pair of German Shepherds and a barn cat.

H/T to the always-interesting and always-innovating Derek Sivers for the idea of this NOW page.