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Resilience

How to Bounce Back From a Blackout that Lasts
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Sandy the third major blackout in the northeastern US in less than two years.  Unfortunately, it’s a sign of things to come. We can …

How to Avoid Fragility and Failure
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Sandy knocked out power for 8.5 million people, mostly in New York and New Jersey. Wow. What’s worse? A week later, nearly a million …

What Sandy Did in Simple Terms, And What to Learn From it
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Sandy did a lot of damage.  Here’s a quick summary of what actually happened. Most of the damage from Sandy was done by the …

How to Survive a Crisis like Sandy in the Future (don’t do it alone!)
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Good news.  The Robb homestead, unlike a large portion of the northeastern seaboard, didn’t suffer much damage. We were lucky.  Sandy was massive.  Even …

5 Smart Ways to Respond To a Blackout!
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Here are five ways to stay resilient when facing a prolonged blackout.  This list is a little more advanced than buying candles and flashlights. …

Why Sandy Is Scary in Simple Terms
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The “destruction potential” for Sandy at 5.8 on a 0 to 6 scale.   NOAA’s hurricane research division To figure out why Sandy has the professionals …

Sheila Bair Warns Us About The Next Financial Crisis, Here’s How to Avoid It
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I’m not smart enough to know exactly when the financial markets will blow up again.  Nobody is. However, I am smart enough to know …

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Wouldn’t it be great if generating solar energy at home was: A Do-it-Yourself project you could build using the tools in your garage Built …

Dad and Mom? Did There Used to Be Homes Without Gardens?
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It’s pretty amazing how quickly basic facts about how we live have changed. For example: a little over one hundred years ago, nearly every household …

We’re In a Slow Motion Collapse, TAKE Advantage of the Time Available
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Our economic and political system is in collapse and there’s no way to fix it from inside the system. It’s a systemic crisis.   …