Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Geo-engineering…and a taking or two.
Just returning from those mangrove swamps described in the previous post… with a couple more experiences to relate. On the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The future of the human race? I like our chances.
Every once in a while, my wife is able to break through the fog I tend to create for myself...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Want to build disaster resilience in your community? And worldwide?
Events in Japan and indeed around the world following the recent earthquake and tsunami have heightened everyone’s desire to build...
The Evolution of Melting Ice
Off the coast of Antarctica, beyond the McMurdo Station research center at the southwestern tip of Ross Island, lies Hut...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The starting point for reducing catastrophic risk? Maybe it’s as simple as awareness.
From time to time, different groups or individuals will post their candidate “top-ten” lists of disaster scenarios facing the United...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Sendai’s biggest lesson? Worse disasters lie ahead…unless we act.
This past week, Joel Achenbach wrote an interesting article for the Washington Post entitled, Japan’s ‘black swan’: scientists ponder the...
Lessons of Sendai: The Need for Community Resilience
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director, adapted from two posts (here and there) for the AMS Project, Living on...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
What the great Tohoku earthquake has to teach about community resilience
Some years ago, Fran Norris and her colleagues at Dartmouth Medical School wrote a paper that has become something of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Sendai samurai: two faces of service and courage
In pre-industrial Japan, lower ranks of military nobility were known by the name samurai, which meant, literally, “those who serve”...
The Atmospheric Factor in Nuclear Disaster
The tense nuclear power plant situation in Japan after the recent earthquake has raised questions not only about safety for...
