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.

The Orange Leader - November 5, 2011

Several airboats are prepped and ready to be air-transported to Thailand to help in that country’s flood recovery efforts. Ten airboats, all made in Orange by American Airboats, are being shipped out and more could be ready to go soon.  Tommy Mann Jr.

ORANGE — A local business is flexing its international muscle once again.

American Airboats Inc. of Orange was a beehive of activity on Thursday as crews prepared 10 airboats for shipment to Thailand to assist in that country’s rescue efforts due to recent flooding.

Tractor trailers lined the road’s edge and parking lot waiting to be loaded Thursday afternoon as work crews partially dis-assembled the boat carriages to better accommodate air transport.

Faron Floyd, vice-president of American Airboats, recently met with top Thailand officials and demonstrated the Air Ranger, the signature airboat of American Airboat Corporation. Upon seeing how maneuverable and beneficial these watercraft could be, government officials quickly placed an order.