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Sat, 2011-11-12 08:18 — mdmcdonald

Here is a strawman summary for the About sections in the US Resilience Systems and their Resilience Network subsystems.

Many Americans are feeling a decline in their quality of life and funcitonal life capacity if they do not actively engage in more resilient and sustainable community.  Increasing numbers are committed to making sure that the food they are eating is healthy, and the water they are drinking is pure, sufficient in quanity for their consumption and food production, and will not be contaminated.  They want to live and work within communities in which economic deline and high energy spikes will not compromise their abiiity to travel to work, or heat and cool their homes.  They want to live within a social ecology in which they are not at risk of going without essential health care or of losing their homes.  Resilience Systems and their Resilience Networks provide essential infrastructures to ensuring these basic needs as the U.S. faces more challenging times ahead.

Local emergencies happen frequently and repetitively as people begin and end their lives. Life support systems periodically fail, humans get into accidents and unfortunately exceed behavioral and social limits conducive to healthy and productive living serving the greater good of the community.  
Communities require systems to address these events in a manner most effective for protecting and nurturing individual well-being, as well as the collective health and human security of the community as a whole.  In advanced societies, emergencies are often addressed with the help of professional health and safety professionals, as well as good samaritans and family members all working within a safety net.  
Resilience Networks enhance this safety net at the local level through using intelligent social networks to enhance the collaborative capacities of the community to manage and improve the social ecology of the neighborhood and the community, in conjunction with professional services.  Resilience Networks become especially important during challenging times and in communities impacted by eroding economic or socio-ecological conditions, when professional services are not sufficient to address gaps in the safety net. 
Larger or more complex emergencies, such as natural disasters or terrorist events sometimes exceed the capacities of local emergency response and the collective capacities of local incident command systems to address these challenges.  Under these conditions effective Resilience Networks linked within larger Resilience Systems become mission critical, along with state, national, and, sometimes international emergency support.  However, it is when incident command systems fail, where the public loses trust in its government or other institutions, or when there is a collapse in social ecology in which populations can no longer be supported within the ecosystems in which they used to live that the U.S. Resilience Systems become mission critical in protecting the health and human security of Americans.  
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Sat, 2011-11-12 08:44 — mdmcdonald

 

The following are additional content that could be added to the USRS About section:
Sat, 2011-11-12 08:47 — mdmcdonald

 

Give concrete examples about why the US RS is worthy of the viewers time. What the site can DO
Sat, 2011-11-12 08:48 — mdmcdonald

 

3)  FACT SHEET .. following the SUMMARY (above) elaborate on key points and essential facts about the US RS ... not about the state of America at the time of writing.
Sat, 2011-11-12 08:49 — mdmcdonald

 

4) Link to subsidiary page and (research shows that users have high interest in this) VIDEOS of CEO or key staff.
Sat, 2011-11-12 08:50 — mdmcdonald

 

5) Marketing tip >>> a link to sign-up to become a member of US RS (if this is what you want), onto the ABOUT page.
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