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New Approaches to Managing Disaster Focus on Resilience

2015-06-18 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Natural disasters have become a fact of life for millions around the world, and the future forecast is only getting worse. From super typhoons to floods, droughts and landslides, these events tend to widen existing inequalities between and within nations, often leaving the poorest with quite literally nothing."The biggest mistake is that we wait for something to happen before responding to it." -- Chloe Demrovsky In 2013 alone, three times as many people lost their homes to natural disasters...

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07.14: Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX

2015-06-16 23:04:39| Powells Books Events Calendar

Wild meets The Boys in the Boat in Ginny Gilder's Course Correction (Beacon Press), a memoir about the quest for Olympic gold and the triumph of love over fear. Forty years ago, when a young Gilder stood on the edge of Boston's Charles River and first saw a rowing shell in motion, it was love at first sight. As a freshman at Yale in 1975, she found her way to the university's rowing tanks in the gymnasium's cavernous basement. From her first strokes as a novice, Gilder found herself in a new world, training with Olympic rowers and participating in the famous Title IX naked protest, which helped define the movement for equality in college sports. Gilder made the team against all odds and for the next 10 years devoted herself to answering a seemingly simple question: How badly do you want to go fast? Course Correction recounts the physical and psychological barriers Gilder overcame as she transformed into an elite athlete who reached the highest echelon of her sport.

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Report: building climate resilience essential business survival

2015-06-04 12:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: A new report argues that businesses need to begin building their climate resilience if they are to survive in the future. The paper explains that $200 billion (130bn) of investments will be needed each year globally to combat $1 trillion (650bn) of losses from climate impacts within the next two decades. The report Climate change and business survival has been published by Anglia Ruskin Universitys Global Sustainability Institute and Mott MacDonald. It explains that investing in improved...

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Data Spurs Resilience

2015-04-29 15:27:00| Transmission & Distribution World

Amos Avidan Interconnectivity Creates Risk Growing urbanization and extreme weather are making cities more vulnerable. In the next 35 years, an additional 2.5 billion people may live in mega-cities. read more

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