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Social Innovation in Venice California

Venice, California has long been a center of innovation within Los Angeles.  Its boardwalk is a spectacle of creativity and entrepreneurship in an open community setting, where the LA megalopolis meets the beach and the Pacific Ocean.  This combination attracts millions of visitors a year in a very small area.

As a result, Venice -- in addition to its opportunities, also struggles with significant and growing challenges with homelessness, drugs, and crowd control, amongst the other problems that all communities face in an economic downturn within a time of energy descent. 

The result?  Both the opportunities and the problems now require creative energy from the Venice community itself to shape what Venice wants to be in the early 21st century. 

Please place your comments on how Venice community members might think about shaping their community to enhance it during the challenging years ahead. 

 

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Video - BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience (Narrated by Tom Hanks)

While the towers burned and collapsed on 9/11, a half million people were evacuated from Lower Manhattan by a civilian flotilla of ferries, tug boats and other vessels—the largest boatlift in history. Narrated by Tom Hanks, Produced and Directed by Eddie Rosenstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDOrzF7B2Kg

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Preparatory Meeting at 4 PM Today (7/12) for the "Social Media and Governance in Times of Transition Symposium

At 4 PM today, there will be a preparatory meeting for "Social Media and Governance in Times of Transition" Symposium today.  The meeting will be held at the Capital Yacht Club in Washington, D.C.  Those interested in tracking the Social Media and Governance Symposium development along with the U.S. Resilience Summit, and the associated collaboratories in the U.S. Resilience Summit are welcome to join us via conference call at:

Conference Dial-in Number: (712) 432-0180 Participant Access Code: 205372#

 

Mike

Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H. 

University of Maryland, School of Public Health

 

President

Global Health Initiatives, Inc.

 

Coordinator

U.S. Resilience System

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Failed States Index 2011 Launch Event: National Press Club on June 29

 

oin The Fund for Peace (FfP) and BENS for the launch of this year’s Failed States Index (FSI).  The FSI is a leading index that annually highlights current trends in social, economic and political pressures that affect all states, but can strain some beyond their capacity to cope.  Apart from the impact on their people, fragile and failed states present the international community with a variety of challenges. In today's world, with its globalized economy, information systems and security challenges, pressures on one fragile state can have serious repercussions not only for that state and its people, but also for its neighbors and other states halfway across the globe.

The Launch event will include:

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Wikipedia: Seven Generation Sustainability

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