Resilient Cities
on Feb 02 in Resilience posted community preparedness, DHS private sector preparedness, Disaster Response Blogs, green business practices, local preparedness, Natural Disasters, regional preparedness, resiliency, resilient by Jeff Jacobson
In the wake of the Haiti earthquake and the destruction of Port-au-Prince, we can wonder again at what it takes to create resilient cities and communities. In this day and age – do we even know what it takes to become resilient ourselves and thereby prepare our communities and our cities? Amidst the wonder, though, is a question of resolve. Do we have the requisite desire and the resources to do so? Haiti surely did not.
Thankfully there are those who are tackling these thorny questions. In October 2009 the 6th Gaining Ground Summit series attracted 600 people to Vancouver, BC to learn, talk about, and build connections around the theme of “Resilient Cities.”
Check out Mark Holland’s Resilient Cities Manifesto:
“I will open to the pain that I cause in the world through my ignorance and fear and the distance I seem to have from my internal dignity and nobility, and I will feel the pain, shock and injustice of participating in the death of so many, if only by accident – and then I will move past the grief to the restless serenity of my responsibility – to my planet, to my community, to my family, and to myself.”
