 Communities today are experiencing serious and growing impacts from environmental extremes. Reversing this trend is the strategic goal of the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes, a partnership of world-leading institutes and community groups within the National Center for Atmospheric Research. We've spent five years, eight major workshops and countless direct discussions to understand the issues and to develop a prototype approach that provides all of society with the tools and information to make informed decisions on how to reduce their vulnerability now and into the future. Our approach is to develop a community facility that harnesses the power of the web to enable folks at all levels of society to reduce their vulnerability and increase their resilience. Hi, I'm Dr. Greg Holland, Director of the Capacity Center. Humanity certainly has a serious and growing problem with the impacts of weather and climate extremes. But together we can reverse this trend by fundamentally changing the way that society plans for and responds to such impacts. We've demonstrated capacity through freely available web-accessible tools and community engagement. As you can see, we have a grand vision here of a paradigm shift in societal capacity. With our expertise and MacArthur support, we can do this.