Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

Resilience is an illusion. In saying that I mean no disrespect to resilience officers, whose work is honourable, vital and necessary. However, whether resilience has as its goal to 'bounce back' or to 'bounce forward', it represents a tendency to seek homeostasis, in other words a quest for an eventual stable equilibrium.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

Globally, about a thousand times as much is spent on hydrocarbon exploration and extraction than on the mitigation of the climate change that results from burning fossil fuels (Mechler et al. Recommendations for a Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Framework to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities to All Hazards. UNISDR 2005.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It also begs the question, where should resilience professionals focus? By examining specific trends, we can gain a better understanding of the current environment to formulate actions that strengthen our resilience both for today and tomorrow. So where do organizations focus?

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. And that is just the federal programs.

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Recovery Diva

MARCH 18, 2024

Once again, Claire has asked me to review the latest in the Resilience Matters series – this one subtitled Flourishing in an Era of Extremes. But we will continue to experience them, and some of the actions suggested here could mitigate some of their consequences. John Plodinec (PhD), has reviewed the new edition of this book.

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Pure Storage

MAY 19, 2022

net greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. The EO is designed to reduce emissions across federal operations; invest in American clean energy industries and manufacturing; and create clean, healthy, and resilient communities. At Pure, sustainability is an integral part of our technology, operations, and people.

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