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America’s Infrastructure Crisis Is Growing Increasingly Dire

America’s Infrastructure Crisis Is Growing Increasingly Dire Despite promises of improved infrastructure and better disaster preparedness, governments and energy giants are failing to provide backup energy provisions to areas hit hard by extreme weather conditions again and again. As these events are becoming more frequent and stronger, how will the energy industry prepare for the […]

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Bringing disaster preparedness into resilience politics

Bringing disaster preparedness into resilience politics Introduction Most discussion of “sustainability” for the last 30 years has been about how to ensure that what we do today is not at the expense of future generations. This is supposed to be so that future generations are safe from the damage done when current generations over-exploit the […]

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Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee

Survival Learnings From A California Fire Evacuee They universally apply to any unexpected emergency As I type this, there are over 16 large wildfires currently burning across northern and southern California. Hundreds of thousands of residents have been displaced. Millions are without power. My hometown of Sebastopol, CA underwent mandatory evacuation at 4am Saturday night. […]

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A Look at Finland’s EXTENSIVE Disaster Preparedness Plans

A Look at Finland’s EXTENSIVE Disaster Preparedness Plans During World War II, the city of Helsinki Finland was bombed relentlessly, leaving the tiny country with a death toll of more than 90,000 people. It is due to these devastating losses that the Nordic nation has one of the most comprehensive preparedness cultures on the planet. Although […]

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Chaz Peling: Backup Power Solutions

Chaz Peling: Backup Power Solutions Be prepared if the lights suddenly go out Over the past month, the Americas have sustained extensive damage from 3 major Atlantic hurricanes and 2 major earthquakes in Mexico. In terms of destroyed houses and businesses, ruined cars, and lost lives, it has been an extremely costly couple of weeks. […]

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Jack Spirko: The Road To Resilience

Jack Spirko: The Road To Resilience Requires a good map. Got one?  Continuing our focus on solutions, this week we’re joined on the podcast by Jack Spirko. His daily podcast focuses on practical, actionable steps each of us can take to “live a better life, if times get tough or even if they don’t” — a mission […]

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