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Disruptions

A disruption is an event that causes cascades of failure to sweep through a network.

How to Bounce Back from Increasingly Extreme Weather Events
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Climate change is here.  We’re seeing increasingly frequent and extreme “heavy weather” events like these every day: Record setting droughts and heat waves. Once …

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The sun is finally out after two days of rain.  My kids are finishing up school today and I’m headed outside soon to work …

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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 …

How You and Your Community Can Avoid Catastrophic Failure
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How do you and your community avoid catastrophic failure? To give you a good answer, I need to share with you a lesson I …

Is Canada Creating its own BitCoin?
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The Royal Canadian Mint just announced it is creating its own digital currency. The project is being called MintChip. It seems the development of …

We’ll All be Solar Farmers
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The weather in New England today is sunny, but crisp.  I couldn’t imagine a better day to work outside.   This means it’s a …

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As most of us already know, the Greek government is bankrupt. So far, it has been forced to cut expenses by 34%. That means …

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If you want a glimpse of the future for the US, UK, etc. all you need to do is tune into what is going …

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Simple lesson in today’s post.  Resilient communities are based on trust. Here’s what happens when trust isn’t something that is considered important. _____________ Everyone …

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Here’s a basic (no frills) reason for why we should build resilient communities.   Do you have another simple reason?  If so, please share …