New Orleans’ Summer of Floods Revives the Threat of Privatization

By Aviva Shen, Climate Progress

As climate change intensifies weather events like the rainstorms that keep hitting New Orleans, the burden on cities’ infrastructure gets heavier. At the same time, the backlog of deferred maintenance in most of the country has weakened these systems’ resilience. Most municipal governments are ill-equipped to handle the increasingly urgent overhauls, especially if they’ve just been hit with a major disaster. That opens a window for private companies — so-called “disaster capitalists” — to make their pitch.

To Billionaire Doomsday Preppers: Your Wealth Won’t Save You

By Chuck Collins, YES! magazine

With Donald Trump’s election and the rising perils of war, climate upheaval, accelerating inequality, and civil unrest, some of the richest people in the United States are making escape plans.

Amatrice Regeneration – Rebuilding Resilience after the Central Italy Earthquake

By Deborah Rim Moiso, Transition Culture

It’s just in the back of our heads, that by building resilience we are also preparing for disaster.

Lost in Participation: Land Use Planning Suffers Without Local Knowledge

By Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Our World

Reliance on physical, structural measures has dominated public policies and permeated public perception while traditional mitigation knowledge and strategies have declined.

The Heart of Urban Resilience is Trust, Not Technology

By Leo Hollis, Shareable

It is no wonder that there was a new energy in the debate concerning the question of resilience, and how to ensure that if -- and when -- such disasters arrive again, we are more prepared.

Lessons from Sandy a year later

By Erik Curren, Transition Voice

To mark the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Josh Fox is encouraging people to watch his short film on storm cleanup and relief efforts, Occupy Sandy.

California’s Rim Fire Threatens San Francisco’s Power And Water Supply

By Katie Valentine, Climate Progress

One of the largest wildfires in California’s history has burned through nearly 134,000 acres near Yosemite National Park and, now on its tenth day, is threatening the San Francisco Bay area’s water and power supplies.

Today’s irrational policies increase the costs of tomorrow’s storms

By Brent Blackwelder, The Daly News

Both the House and Senate have passed over $50 billion in emergency supplemental appropriations bills to deal with the disaster caused by Hurricane Sandy last fall. New Jersey, New York City, and Long Island were particularly hard hit by the giant storm that measured over one thousand miles in diameter. Who is going to pay for all this and how many extreme weather events will the federal government be expected to rectify through relief and reconstruction?

Resilience – 2012 Word of the Year?

By David Bergman, EcoOptimism

Even before Sandy, the word ‘resilience’ was on its way to becoming a meme. Then, when a “natural disaster” struck the political and financial powers of New York City – along with countless others – the idea started to take on some urgency.

A Woman, a Plan, a Canard…

By Sharon Astyk, Casaubon's Book

So while I don't advise anyone to get ready for an end of the world, I do think you'll want to get right on the ball prepping for the end of YOUR world – the one that had enough fossil fuels to generate endless economic growth.