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Sun, 2012-01-22 04:58 — mdmcdonald
The Neighborhood Resilience Collaboratory will be focusing on the issues associated with neighborhood resilience in San Francisco.

The mission of the Neighborhood Resilience Collaboratory is to improve  neighborhood resilience in San Francisco.  

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Federal Government announces nearly $3 Billion in projects to strengthen local communities resilience to extreme weather events.

Tue, 2023-08-29 17:53 — mike kraft

DHS Press Release, Aug 28, 2023

Biden-Harris Administrations Announces Nearly $3 Billion in Project Selections to Help Communities Build Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events

 Additional Funding from the President’s Investing in America Agenda Enables Major Program Expansion, with 23 States Selected for the First Time

WASHINGTON—Today, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, and Senior Advisor to the President and White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu announced the project selections for nearly $3 billion in climate resilience funding as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics. The selections, through two competitive grant programs, will help communities across the nation enhance resilience to climate change and extreme weather events. Overall, the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides FEMA nearly $7 billion to help communities proactively reduce their vulnerability to flood, hurricanes, drought, wildfires, extreme heat, and other climate-fueled hazards.

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IMF chief says world must build more resilience to do deal with crises like Covid

Tue, 2023-02-14 10:36 — mike kraft

‘Think of the unthinkable’: IMF chief warns world is a very different place after crises like Covid

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“We all have to change our mindset to be much more agile and much more oriented towards building resilience at all levels, so we can handle the shocks better,” Kristalina Georgieva said Tuesday, during a World Government Summit panel hosted by CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.

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OPINION: Community health centers can help stamp out Covid-19

Wed, 2021-02-03 09:58 — mike kraft
Community health centers can help stamp out Covid-19 - STAT Across the U.S., community health centers are located in areas where the epidemic is surging among communities of color. Patrick Skerrett STAT

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Video - Permaculture - Greening the Desert

Sat, 2012-04-07 17:20 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Permaculture - Greening the Desert Final (2009)

Geoff Lawton elaborates on his successes in the re-greening of desertified, salted lands in Jordan.

Permaculture at its best!!!

This is just one example of how permaculture can transform the environment, and, in so doing, dramatically change lives. By evidencing the dramatic transformation possible in the world's worst agricultural scenarios, we hope to make people stand up and listen.

New FEMA-AmeriCorps Partnership Strengthens Response, Recovery Efforts Following Disasters

Tue, 2012-03-13 14:13 — Kathy Gilbeaux

March 13, 2012

WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today announced an innovative new partnership designed to continue to strengthen the nation's ability to respond to and recover from disasters while expanding career opportunities for young people.

FEMA Corps is a historic collaboration which will create a new unit of AmeriCorps' National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) whose members will be devoted solely to FEMA disaster response, and recovery efforts. The five-year agreement provides for a full service corps of 1,600 members annually who will be an additional workforce in support of FEMA's current disaster reserve workforce.

“The initiative we're launching today underscores our commitment to shared responsibility and strong partnerships to help communities across the United States more effectively prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters of all kinds,” said Secretary Napolitano. “This new partnership will help us respond to disasters in a way that is cost-effective, and that draws on the strengths of our communities and our people.”

FEMA and AmeriCorps to Announce New Partnership to Strengthen Disaster Response, Recovery

Tue, 2012-03-13 09:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux

                                       

FEMA and AmeriCorps to Announce New Partnership to Strengthen Disaster Response, Recovery

Join the announcement by webstream: 11:00am EDT on Tuesday

On Tuesday, March 13, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate, Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) Acting CEO Robert Velasco, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deputy Administrator Rich Serino, and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz, joined by Tuscaloosa, AL Mayor Walter Maddox, will announce an innovative new partnership between FEMA and CNCS designed to strengthen the nation’s ability to respond and recover from disasters.

We welcome you to join the launch of this effort.  You are invited to view the official announcement of this partnership at FEMA Headquarters via webstream, at 11:00am EDT at the following link:

http://www.fema.gov/LiveVideo.

Low-Hanging Fruit: Can an Edible Forest Take Root in Seattle?

Sat, 2012-03-03 21:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

      

Beacon Food Forest Schematic Site Plan

by Zak Stone - good.is - March 2, 2012

Imagine if your neighborhood park doubled as a communal orchard. Out of fruit in the fridge? Just stroll down the block and pluck the first ripe pear you see. It may sound like a hippie fantasy, but residents of Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood could soon be living that dream, with a community group planning to break ground on the country's largest "food forest" this summer.

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Sustaining Public Engagement - Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities

Sat, 2012-02-11 17:13 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Gerald Eisman

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Everyday Democracy and the Kettering Foundation collaborated to produce Sustaining Public Engagement: Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities, a research report providing insights into how public engagement initiatives can grow into a regular practice involving people from many different parts of a community and spanning multiple issues. The new report by Harvard University researchers Archon Fung and Elena Fagotto argues that the most successful of civic engagement efforts are those that address not only particular public issues such as school redistricting, domestic violence, or racism, but also improve the quality of local democratic governance. Sustaining Public Engagement will be of interest to researchers and community organizers. The report features concrete examples of sustained community-led dialogue and problem solving efforts that draw upon different approaches to public deliberation. (2009)

(FREE DOWNLOAD OR ORDERING OPTIONS IN LINK BELOW)

http://www.everyday-democracy.org/en/Resource.136.aspx

Health Matters in San Francisco

Tue, 2012-01-24 11:55 — mdmcdonald

San Francisco has some of the healthiest neighborhoods in the nation according to U.S. health statistics.  What specifically makes San Francisco's neighborhoods healthy? What are their current challenges negatively impacting the health or San Franciscans?

How is your neighborhood doing?  What do you need to work on in your neighborhood to improve the health of your community?

 

Take a look:

http://www.healthmattersinsf.org/index.php

 

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