Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(Still) more on “slow-onset” hazards.
Continuing the thread of the last post: “The threats from climate change, sea rise, drought and desertification, food security and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More on “slow-onset” hazards.
Continuing the thread of yesterday’s post: “The threats from climate change, sea rise, drought and desertification, food security and many...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A gentle (and constructive) rebuke from a friend
“It is better to heed a wise man’s rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.” Ecclesiastes 7:5 (NIV)...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
“Slow-onset” hazards
Here is the question for today: “The threats from climate change, sea rise, drought and desertification, food security and many...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A national debt ceiling? How about a ceiling on disaster losses?
Congress, like most of the rest of us, has returned to work after the Labor Day weekend. The news headlines...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Technology, policy, and resiliency: moving resiliency from concept to reality
Irene, Lee, and other tropical storms both here and in the western Pacific continue to wreak havoc through rain and...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Lee and Katia – storms in full.
The September 1 post addressed tropical cyclones as rainmakers, using Irene as a focus, but calling attention to tropical cyclone...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More on ozone regulation… “let’s you and him fight!”
In a front page article in today’s Washington Post, Juliet Eilperin and Peter Wallsten provided more coverage of reaction to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Ozone regulations…on the Real World
This morning many of us woke up to headlines on the Obama administration’s decision to pull back proposed new standards...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
MOTN, jobs, a country that can’t be bothered, Katia, and depression
Reading this? Chances are good you’re asking, “What’s MOTN?” I didn’t know the acronym myself until a few minutes ago....
