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If you're in or near Norwich, you might want to come along on 3rd May to a free session offered to people working in arts, heritage, education or research, to explore ways to engage your audiences or communities. It will help you think about your current approach to your work and how your policies or mission might need to change. We'll explore questions such as: What is the Earth crisis? How are its causes and impacts connected to well-being and justice? How do people feel about it and what are some different coping strategies? What terms can we use to help people think about it? How might we talk about extreme weather, or ‘climate emotions’, or think about the future? How do we help people feel activated and not depressed? And what about ourselves and our work? Facilitated by CMUK founder Bridget McKenzie. https://lnkd.in/eafNRmnr

When community relationships are disrupted by relocation or displacement – whether the result of choice, necessity, or a climate disaster – individuals and families can experience harm in the absence of tools and resources to reconnect or rebuild social networks. Jennifer Moon, Senior Researcher at Just Solutions, examines some of the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. social benefit policies and programs that can support advocates and policymakers in ensuring that future climate-related policymaking effectively delivers for frontline communities. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eRWAWfVF

THANK YOU FOR TOP FAN.! With President Joe Biden – I just got recognized as one of their top fans.! ALLIED: I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE SUCH A POWERFUL MILITARY MOVIE IN ALL MY LIFE. I CAN SERIOUSLY SEE BRAD PITT PLAY 007 J. BOND. ARTICLE: CRYPTOCURRENCY & REYGITONIUM-G. BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION TENRI CULTURAL INSTITUTE tenri.org https://lnkd.in/e55sRd8b https://lnkd.in/eB98Jnv9 WonderMind.com: CRYPTO-FINANCE & WHAT'S ON THE TABLE. REYGITONIUM-G MR. MS. TEEFEY & SELENA GOMEZ-RARE-SUPERSTAR. TCI GALLERY SPRING 2024 THEMES. CRYPTOCURRENCY & REYGITONIUM-G TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I ABSOLUTELY SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH CRYPTOCURRENCY: REYGITONIUM-G I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE INFANT DEMOCRATIC-CAPITALISTIC MINDS OF TODAY BLAME USA GOVERNMENT. THEN IS ANY GOVERNMENT TO BE BLAMED FOR HOMELESS PROBLEMS PLAGUING THE WORLD.? NO. GOD KNOWS HEADACHES USA GOVERNMENT HAVE WITH THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS. THE NEW WORLD PRACTICALLY SHOCK TO WITNESS. PEOPLE ONLY WORKING TOGETHER FOR A COMMON GOAL. "IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS." THUS DOESN'T THAT ALSO INCLUDE THE HOMELESS. THE HOMELESS ARE OUT THERE. ARE YOU.? HOMELESS.. AN OPPORTUNITY MISUNDERSTOOD. The modern economic system is a market economy, which is a capitalist economy where people, not the government--NOT THE GOVERNMENT--own most businesses. In a capitalist economy, prices allocate capital and labor between competing uses, and capital assets like factories, mines, and railroads can be privately owned and controlled. https://lnkd.in/eB98Jnv9 GOOGLE EXAMPLE, IF YOU NEED TO RAISE MONEY FOR ANY REASON OR MORE SO LETS SAY THE "HOMELESS" PROBLEM WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE TIME & MONEY CONSUMING BUT IN ONE DIRECTION TOWARD THE HOMELESS. HOWEVER CRYPTOCURRENCY CAN POSSIBLE ALLOWS AN EXPENDITURE OF CURRENCY TO BENEFIT ALL WHO USES THE CRYPTO & REGARDLESS OF HOW IT'S CONSUMED. THEREFORE IF A CRYPTO HOMELESS CURRENCY REYGITONIUM-G EXISTED IT'S MORE HIGHLY LIKELY THAT THE HOMELESS PROBLEM CAN BE VANQUISHED BECAUSE CURRENCY-FINANCES IT'S ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO BE TAPPED INTO FOR HOMELESS RESOLUTIONS. REYGITONIUM-G: COUNTRY GOVERNMENT $1-DOLLAR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO OF 8-BILLION EARTH CITIZENS. OR CONTINUE HIDING THE HOMELESS WHEN A POLITICAL LEADER VISITS AMERICA. CLOSING COMMENT: THE DAMNEDEST CRAZIEST FUNNIEST EMBARRASSING ABOUT THE HOMELESS CHAOS IS ANY EXCUSE AS TO WHY HOMELESS EXIST. HENCEFORTH CONSIDER USA TRILLIONS IN DEBT & 6,120 OF HOSPITALS SCATTERED AROUND THE USA & MANY COUNTRIES ASKING FOR FOREIGN AID IN THE TRILLIONS & YOU TALKING EXCUSES. MEANWHILE WE WANT TO SETTLE HUMANITY ON OTHER PLANETS. THANK YOU FOR READING.

Our 2023 Community Impact Report is now available! Learn more about how CHP is impacting the communities we serve and fulfilling our mission to create a healthy, sustainable, and affordable future for our residents and clients. View the full report: https://lnkd.in/eUXV2Rwu

The future likely holds only marginal increases in public sector investments, irrespective of a changing pattern of events and overall demand. So what can the municipal government do differently, something new that allows for increased capability and capacity, without the allocation of new resources? That is an existential question, one the plagues local governments. We know and have written at length about the power of leveraging the whole of community. Across the spectrum of EM publications, there is no shortage of monikers, announcements and pledges to do exactly that, with very few examples of local governments that have taken the initiative to create such a system. A Community Response Council (CRC) represents the gathering of all sectors of a municipality, on a recurring basis, to discuss how the entire community intends to respond to a significant event. Cooperation, understanding, coordination and a common view of the roles, responsibilities, capabilities and capacity of all the sectors is present. The membership is voluntary, brought together through a system of leveraging and fostering social capital. A CRC is offered as a model, A methodology to bring together all sectors and spheres of society to create a common operating picture, a response template and coordination mechanism to ensure that future responses will bring to bear everything present in a community, irrespective of ownership. Brilliant. #emergencymanagement #disastermanagement #preparedness #emergencypreparedness #response #recovery #mitigation #municpal #council #community #resilience #socialcapital #corporate #insurance #notforprofit #advocacy #hurricane #rescue #wildfire #tornado #hazard #disaster #emergencyresponse https://lnkd.in/eRYcxEzH

Surveys are vital in social science and disaster research! They gather firsthand data, uncover community needs, and inform strategies for resilience and recovery. Explore the check sheets to learn more. https://bit.ly/3SPeiDY

Resilience is the 21st century emergency management (EM) buzzword, every initiative is grounded in the theory, flavoured for the desired outcomes, but linked to the overall concept of a capability and capacity to navigate through and emerge from, an exogenous shock leveraging only internal resources. Community resilience has been the focus of over a decade of research, both personally by our staff and as a corporation. We've endeavoured to both challenge the paradigm and to develop the operationalization of the theoretical concepts. As an academic and journal editor, I am a fan of peer reviewed articles. Necessarily vague, academic articles provide insight into variable association, what this means for generally accepted principles and where future studies should move the goalposts. Excellent and necessary. However, what EM requires at the local level, as all disasters are local, are the 14 specific ordered steps necessary to create community resilience from zero to hero. That specificity is not present in journals, nor should it be, but that remains the focus of our efforts, to deliver the exacting process a municipal EM agency can execute. The challenge is that much of what is produced at the informative level of governance - national and sub-national, is void of specific programmatic solutions. Vague generalities remain the constant, with little advice for those responsible for building community resilience. Broad initiatives, in colourful booklets, announcing a multi-year commitment to create a "more / better prepared X location" offer little for the community of practice. No specifics, list of ordered tasks, nor resources to support. The platitudes are legendary, created with the modern wizardry of professional communication scripts.  So stay tuned, look for the continued practical applications being provided by the private sector and best of luck displaying those shiny publications from the King's Printer. #emergencymanagement #disastermanagement #emergencypreparedness #preparedness #resilience #community #innovation #socialcapital #disaster #emergency #recovery #mitigation #response #communications #tribe #disruption #privatesector #corporation #notforprofit #civil

“We hear a lot about the importance of being resilient. What people don’t talk a lot about is the fact that resilience can change really quickly.” According to Professor Jacki Schirmer from the University of Canberra, natural hazard events like fires, floods and droughts are becoming increasingly frequent and it’s common for communities to be simultaneously recovering and rebuilding from previous events, responding to a current event, and working to reduce their risk from future events. While experiencing multiple events can place a lot of pressure on a community’s resilience, there are currently few tools for monitoring these changes in resilience. The ‘Sharing Early Insights for Resilient Communities’ project has brought together new and unusual data sets as indicators of changing resilience to help us better spot changes and provide faster assistance where it’s needed most. Watch the video to learn more: https://loom.ly/kerzrKo Murray Watt - Labor Senator for Queensland #ResilientCommunities #SNSWInnovationHub

This resonates with the findings from our joint Mathematica & @Results4America report: 1. Cities with strong results-driven contracting practices developed Recovery Plans that better adhere to federal guidance for key data and evidence practices. 2. Cities that effectively engage residents and local organizations strengthen the impact of federal recovery funds by continuing to use data to identify and embed equity. 3. Cities that have been recognized as effectively using data by achieving What Works Cities Certification were better positioned to use data and evidence practices to advance economic recovery, economic mobility and racial equity through State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds funds. Read more on "Unlocking the Power of City Data: Transforming American Rescue Plan Investments to Improve Residents’ Lives" here: https://lnkd.in/g5MHcPVh.