Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Earth’s two-minute drill
Sports fascinate in part because games are a microcosm of life. Reflect on two sports that command our attention each...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Can this marriage be saved?
You can and should be forgiven if you can’t hearken back to the August 17th post, “We’re Earthlings, till death...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Two hands for beginners! Another disaster-reduction policy.
Want to bring down the cost of future disasters? As we tackle the problem, instead of showing off, let’s use...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The real cost of disasters? Destruction of social fabric. (Or – just maybe – not.)
Late last week a colleague who had just started reading this blog and noted the passing reference to Hurricane Earl...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Want to reduce disaster losses? Keep score.
In the early 1900’s, my grandfather faced a challenge at work. Though only a teenager, he was foreman in a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A Tale of Two (Real) Worlds
“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.” – Dag Hammarskjold In this post,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Primum non nocere!
“First, do no harm.” The origin of the precise phrase hasn’t been traced, but the sentiment of nonmaleficence (what a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Road Weather
Think back to the last time you were terrified by the weather. No, not one of those times that the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Today’s reality dose: Hazards have a social side
Reality: Disasters – that is, disruptions of entire communities, persisting after an extreme has come and gone, and exceeding a...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A dose of reality about hazards
Reality: The Earth does much of its business through extreme events. The reason that the Arctic and Antarctic aren’t even...
