Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More from the World Conference on Disaster Management
The real world we live on does much if not most of its business through extreme events. In fact, it...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Lester Brown at the World Conference on Disaster Management.
The Keynote Speaker for this year’s World Conference on Disaster Management was Lester Brown, and his talk alone was worth...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Disaster Management? Sounds like an oxymoron…
…but it isn’t. Today’s post comes from Toronto at the start of the 21st World Conference on Disaster Management. The...
Inside the AMS Annual Report
This past year was a busy one at AMS. Along with the usual activities, there were a slew of events...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Closing reflections on the 2011 Colloquium and the future of the human race.
The AMS Summer Policy Colloquium in a nutshell? A ten-day discussion on the challenges of Living on the Real World...
Emergency Response Technology Goes On Demand
When the American Red Cross responded the morning after the 24 May tornado outbreak in central Oklahoma, they had a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Leadership and work-life balance.
This topic preoccupies people these days – especially knowledge workers, and leaders of knowledge workers. Job demands are escalating. The...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Leadership and work-life balance (the prologue)
So…I was working on a post for the blog just now on leadership and work-life balance. My wife asked what...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Colloquy is better than Soliloquy – “draft-tweets” from Colloquium participants
In each Colloquium, we emphasize that the policy process, especially here in the United States, is shaped by the reality...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The heat is on…and not just along the East Coast.
Today’s big weather story? Depends upon where you live, but for most of us, it’s the heat, stagnation, and poor...
