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Personal Resilience

Here’s a Trick for Getting Fit with the Least Possible Effort
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The weather today in New England is pristine.   The sun is out and the air is crisp.  The crisp air is a hint …

Don’t Send Out Resumes.  MAKE a Resilient Job that Can Survive the Future.
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Last week, I read a story about long-term unemployment.  It was an emotionally depressing read. Here’s an example of why: ” ~Californian Byron Reeves …

How to Get Great News on Your Next Dental Visit
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Here’s some retrospective thinking from the baseball great, Mickey Mantle, that’s worth living by: “If I knew I was going to live this long, …

Slow, Smart Meals:  A Trick For Getting Fit, Trim, and Resilient Again
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How can you improve your personal resilience?  How can you improve how well you respond to the challenges of life? One step in the …

How to Calculate the Resilience of Your Home
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Hi folks.  With all of the bad news in Europe (financial panic is now spreading to Italy), it’s probably smart to find out if …

How Do You Attract Resilient People?  Give Them Room to Grow
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One of the best ways to improve the quality of any community, or any property, is to provide residents with the opportunities they need …

Is Growing Food in Plastic Safe?
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Are window farms and other do it yourself garden projects that use recycled plastics safe? Let’s find out. Here’s an example of a window …

What is a Resilient Livelihood? Also: DiY Community Security and “Lean” Dairy Farms.
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Today’s letter starts with a discussion of what a resilient livelihood is, and why it is a good thing to have. We’re also lucky …

Here’s the Future of America
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Writing from:  Aspen, CO.  I’m speaking/attending the National Geographic Environmental Conference (focus of the conference:  adapting to climate change). I had the good fortune …

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It’s a gloomy, rainy day outside and I’m stuck in front of a computer. That makes it the perfect day for thinking about the …