Tag Archives for resiliency
Pandemic Firewalls
The trick to deal with forced disconnectedness? Use electron flows to hyperlocalize all physical flows. Gunnison, Colorado. In 1918, town leaders built a veritable barricade, closing down the railroad station and blocking all roads into town. Four thousand townspeople lived … Continue reading
Idea: Resiliency Study
Here’s a fun project that deserves funding (though is unlikely to get it): Along the lines of the Mercer standard of living study, build a data set on the resiliency of major cities. This is largely a function of how … Continue reading
The Story of Morgan Hill
Bruce Person has a nice short article on how Morgan Hill coped with being forcibly firewalled from the internet. In short, they did well because of embedded resiliency – public/private partnerships coupled with actually useful government services focused on other … Continue reading
Scrip!
CNN has a pretty long article on the topic. BerkShares, Ithaca Hours have the focus: But creating a local currency isn’t easy. First, there are the start-up costs. Witt’s group spent $250,000 in grant money to create the BerkShares. There … Continue reading
‘Resilient Nation’
Charlie Edwards of Demos has a great new report out titled “Resilient Nation“. It really parallels my own work on the topic (if you’d like to see the chapter I wrote on it, ‘Reconfiguring the National Security Architecture’ let me … Continue reading