How the ABC produced the Mt Resilience Augmented Reality experience to explore a way of living with big weather and climate change

At the end of 2019, a town called Paradise in California signed a Green Chico Deal to rebuild their town to be carbon neutral and sustainable after it was completely destroyed by wildfires.

At the time, I’d just started researching ideas on how we could extend the themes of extreme weather and preparedness from the TV series Big Weather (and how to survive it) with ABC Impact executive producer Teri Calder.

I was working from the North Coast of NSW while spending time with my family after they’d just recovered from fighting fires on our farm outside of Kempsey.

These fires were only the beginning of a bushfire season that would…