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Video - Dr. Michael D. McDonald - The Resilience Systems - Conversations With Great Minds - The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann

CLICK HERE - The interview with Dr. Michael D. McDonald begins at the 30:00 mark.

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Thom Hartmann of The Big Picture interviews Dr. Michael D. McDonald in a segment of Conversations With Great Minds.  This interview focuses on the Resilience Systems.  What is resilience?  Why is it important?  An important discussion on resilient communities and networks is included.

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Why Social Media Is the Front Line of Disaster Response

mashable.com - May 21st, 2013 - Zoe Fox

Nearly one million people are affected by natural disasters each year. In the U.S. alone, some 400 people die from disasters that cost the economy $17.6 billion. Helping respond to these cataclysmic events, social media is now a go-to tool for those effected by disasters.

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Dr. Michael D. McDonald - The Resilience Systems - Conversations With Great Minds - The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann

Please join us on Friday, June 21, 2013 from 7:30pm-8:00pm (ET) as Thom Hartmann of The Big Picture interviews Dr. Michael D. McDonald in a segment of Conversations With Great Minds. This interview will focus on the Resilience Systems. What is resilience? Why is it important? An important discussion on resilient communities and networks will be included.

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http://www.thomhartmann.com/tv

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TDR - the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases

      

who.int/tdr

TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, is a global programme of scientific collaboration that helps coordinate, support and influence global efforts to combat a portfolio of major diseases of the poor and disadvantaged.

Established in 1975, TDR is based at and executed by the World Health Organization (WHO), and is sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and WHO.

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(ABOUT - TDR)

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Why Regional Seed Matters

Petra is thrilled to be surrounded by gold medal tomatoes, tome verde tomatillos and black beauty eggplant: all are adapting well to the Finger Lakes!

Image: Petra is thrilled to be surrounded by gold medal tomatoes, tome verde tomatillos and black beauty eggplant: all are adapting well to the Finger Lakes!

fruitionseeds.wordpress.com - June 13th, 2013

Each seed tells the story of its entire life history, millions of years in the making.  A few seeds, in a single generation, may travel the globe.  Most will stay within their watershed and most likely, their microclimate.  In this way, seeds become profoundly adapted to place.

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Open Data to Fight Poverty

openaid.de - by Claudia Schwegmann - May 7, 2013

Germany has just published its first batch of open data according to the standard of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). The term open data refers to quantitative and qualitative data that is machine readible and openly licenced, so that third parties are able and allowed to reuse the data. . . The following guest post by Tom Berry from aidinfo explains how open data can make a difference in fighting poverty.

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Small in Size, Big on Power: New Microbatteries a Boost for Electronics

The graphic illustrates a high power battery technology from the University of Illinois.  Ions flow between three-dimensional micro-electrodes in a lithium ion battery.  Image - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

submitted by Albert Gomez

news.illinois.edu - by Liz Ahlberg - April 16, 2013

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Though they be but little, they are fierce. The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car battery – and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye.

Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the new microbatteries out-power even the best supercapacitors and could drive new applications in radio communications and compact electronics.

Led by William P. King, the Bliss Professor of mechanical science and engineering, the researchers published their results in the April 16 issue of Nature Communications.

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Introducing Global Sustainability

huffingtonpost.co.uk - by HRH The Prince of Wales - June 3, 2013

I have long been deeply concerned about the effect our modern, highly industrialised approach is having on nature's capacity to sustain life on Earth. There is a growing set of alarming problems which, if not addressed with real urgency, will severely affect nature's capacity to keep her life support systems running and thus guarantee the well-being of billions of people around the world.

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Underlying Resilience Theoretical Foundations

Dear all,

Yesterday was a great pleasure for me, thank you all for the inspirations and very nice atmosphere.

Instead of writing a decent summary, I have summarised some notes in the way of formulating questions that could be of interest for the project. (Or, at least to myself.) I think it could also be very useful to write a paper to help structuring all ideas.

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Geospatial Data Release Calendar

Mike, Alexander,

Good to meet you both today (and help eat the food).

The official data release calendar id here:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/release-calendar/index.html
<http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/release-calendar/index.html>

Also attached is the National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies for the UK.
Enjoy.

Regards, Allan.

Professor Allan J. Brimicombe MPhil PhD CGeog FRGS FGS AcSS
Head, Centre for Geo-Information Studies
University of East London

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