Emergency Preparedness
Personal, neighbourhood and community preparedness .
Examining all aspects of planning/action to make ourselves and communities more resillient to emergencies, be they short (earthquake) or longer term (climate change, peak oil).
Hurrican Sandy - lots of lessons to be learned
The devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy is overwhelming and provides a real life example of how important community response is in reestablishing services to meet basic human needs.
There are a number of articles chronicling stories of personal and community response. Feel free to add ones you find that illuminate the importance of working together and the lessons learned about how to make a community based response more effective.
Here's the first:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/opinion/nocera-no-heat-till-chris...
Ann Pacey
An example of how occupy is stepping up to the plate: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/nyregion/where-fema-fell-short-oc...
Nov 11, 2012
Ann Pacey
another great article about how occupy is mobilizing and the forward push this is giving to climate justice
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-11-13/occupy-sandy-from-reli...
Nov 14, 2012