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Wed, 2012-10-03 18:01 — mdmcdonald
The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about emergency management.

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Global Food Supply - We Need to Plan for System Failure

Wed, 2012-10-10 18:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

ethicalcorp.com - by Mallen Baker - October 4, 2012

Mallen Baker argues that it’s irresponsible not to make contingency plans, especially when the potential failures concern the fundamentals – such as food

Imagine your critical business systems depend on one computer server. This server is huge – it has immense capacity – but you have grown into that space and now every single day you are pushing it to its limit. . .

. . . Now let’s substitute the global food system for the server. Here we have a system that is operating at full capacity. Any hiccups in normal production can lead to serious problems. This year we have seen such hiccups.

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Imagining First Responders’ High-Tech Future

Wed, 2012-10-10 00:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - October 5, 2012

What kinds of gear will be needed by future firefighters, EMTs, and police officers? To find out, DHS asked the department’s research arm to ask the experts, then apply sophisticated math to discover unlikely patterns. The results are detailed in an intriguing report.

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Project Responder 3: Toward the First Responder of the Future - March 2012 (139 page .PDF file)
http://www.firstresponder.gov/Miscellaneous%20PDFs/ProjectResponder3Report.pdf

Report from a Crowd Sourcing Event at Woodrow Wilson International Center

Mon, 2012-10-08 17:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Janine Rees

      

opengeospatial.org - by Luis Bermudez - September 19, 2012

Last week I attended the workshop “Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management” at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This was my first meeting I have attended that was fully dedicated to the discussion of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Lea Shanley, director of the Commons Lab, brought together top-notch panelists (see agenda) from government, university and industry.

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New York Unprepared for Flooding, Sea Level Rise

Mon, 2012-10-08 00:47 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - September 24, 2012

City Environmental Justice Alliance told the New York Times. “We’re behind in consciousness-building and disaster planning.”

Officials in New York say that it will take time to adapt a city of eight million people to climate change, and they also note that the last time a hurricane directly hit New York was more than a century ago.

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American Red Cross Introduces New Earthquake App for Mobile Devices

Sat, 2012-10-06 23:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux

homelandsecurity.org - October 2, 2012

The American Red Cross has followed on the successful launch of its First Aid and Hurricane apps with the introduction of its free Earthquake App. The new app is available in both English and Spanish and is available for use on both iPhone and Android platforms. The Earthquake App, can be found in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store for Android by searching for American Red Cross. The American Red Cross makes clear that the app can help prepare people for disasters, but does not replace training.

USDA - U.S. Drought 2012: Farm and Food Impacts

Wed, 2012-10-03 18:08 — Kathy Gilbeaux

ers.usda.gov - September 25, 2012 update

The most severe and extensive drought in at least 25 years is seriously affecting U.S. agriculture, with impacts on the crop and livestock sectors and with the potential to affect food prices at the retail level. Below is current information on potential impacts of the drought on key commodities and food prices. We will update the material periodically as information becomes available.

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UPDATE (8-21-19): The government source within the link above has unpublished this report.  An archived version of this report can be accessed within the link below . . .

WEB ARCHIVE - USDA - U.S. Drought 2012: Farm and Food Impacts
https://web.archive.org/web/20130116030109/http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/in-the-news/us-drought-2012-farm-and-food-impacts.aspx

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