by admin | Jan 5, 2019 | Activism, Blogging, Careers, Education, Gratitude, Personal health, Personal history, Resilience, Urban Planning
Gratitude on Parade #1 Okay, call me a copycat. If an idea is good enough, why not copy it proudly? On New Year’s Day, I read in a Chicago Tribune column by Heidi Stevens about a woman, Jen Kramer, who began a daily effort on Facebook a year ago as #yearoflove....
by admin | Jan 1, 2019 | Activism, Careers, Education, Personal history, Urban Planning, Writing
As a New Year arrives, perhaps it was the gift-giving season and the story of Christmas that prompted this blog post. Or, perhaps, it was simply lurking in my subconscious mind, awaiting the appropriate opportunity to emerge into the light of conscious deliberation....
by admin | Dec 3, 2018 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Earthquake, Government, History, Infrastructure, Natural Hazards, Public safety, Resilience, Transportation
Ask Anchorage after last Friday’s 7.0 earthquake. Admittedly, this is not the biggest earthquake the area could have suffered. The famous 1964 earthquake registered at 9.2, triggered a tsunami, and killed an estimated 130 people. Still, by and large, things seemed to...
by admin | Nov 29, 2018 | Books, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Emergency Management, Geography, Natural Hazards, Public health, Public safety, Weather, Wildfire
Summarizing the major points from a densely factual book like Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future, by Edward Struzik (Island Press, 2018), is about as challenging as understanding precisely what is happening in the midst of a rapidly moving massive...
by admin | Nov 24, 2018 | Books, Careers, Climate, Disaster, Emergency Management, Environment, Natural Hazards, Public health, Public safety, Urban Planning
Just nine days ago, on November 15, I stood in front of two successive audiences of long-term health care practitioners to present workshops at a conference in Wisconsin Dells discussing, of all things, “Fundamentals of Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery.” Where,...
