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Urban Resilience - ACT
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This week, increase YOUR city's capacity to adapt and develop. Uncover your city's secret resilience plan — and spread the word locally.
(If you don't live in a city, pick a nearby city.)
First, find out the steps your city is already taking to increase its resilience. Most major cities today have websites or online reports dedicated to the topic of urban resilience. Many others smaller cities have web pages dedicated to resilience topics like disaster response, civic engagement, local food supply, or "green" reform.
It might take quite a bit of investigation to dig up your city's best resilience strategies, so here's a hint: Search for the name of your town or city followed by any of these terms: resilience plan, ecodiversity, adaptive capacity, disaster preparation, sustainability strategies, ecoservices, social capital, civic engagement, response diversity. At least one of these searches should yield some interesting results!
Next, pick a few of the most interesting and innovative ideas to share with other city residents.
Share what you know locally: face-to-face, door-to-door, with sign or flyers, on a local website, or at a meetup.
Reach out to at least 3 different people, to help start a chain of information flowing.
If you're feeling especially heroic this week, create video interviews doc**enting how much your neighbors already know — or don't know — about your city's resilience plan.
Need more ideas? Find out how some cities are becoming more resilient:
Rise of the Carbon-Neutral City
San Francisco Resilience Plan
London Resilience Plan
Cape Town Biodiversity Strategy
Your objective:
Find out how much your neighbors know about your city's adaptive capacity — and what they think of the resilience strategies you've uncovered. Share your experiences in a blog post, video, or photo essay.This objective is worth +40 spark.
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Comment by Kevin Herzog on April 20, 2014 at 9:28pm
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I really like the company WE ARE NUETRAL here in gainesville. They are a carbon offset comany and they come up with all these ways to go green and they plant trees when they get customers. I think that the community of gainesville should be more aware of this company and adapt to some of their strategies they use for creating a more eco-friendly environment
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To help spread the word about the new sustainable measures on the University of Florida campus I talked to my two roommates and my coworker about some of the more eco-friendly options that are available to students. My roommate Madison frequents the Starbucks on campus several times a week. I told her that if she brings her reusable mug to the store and asks them to make her drink in that instead of the cups they provide, she will not only be helping the environment but she will also get a discount on her drink. Next, my roommate Elizabeth used to drive her car to campus every day, but after I told her about the free bus system she now commutes to school on the bus. Lastly, my coworker was looking to start a garden but felt that he was not able to because he lives in an apartment. I told him about the Student Agricultural gardens on campus and how they allow students to purchase plots to grow crops. After purchasing a plot he was able to begin growing his own vegetables.
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we have a vigilant watch for earthquakes..... goes on tv/ radio/ highway alerts
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There are many loud alarm around Atlanta and it always pops up on the tv.
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We live in a very safe city with many warnings for disasters
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Atlanta has many sirens and warnings set up for when things like tornados and severe storms come.
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Charleston, SC is coordinating with NOAA to keep a more vigilant watch for tsunamis since we are overdue for one
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Atlanta uses Ushashidi helping people know what kind of disasters are coming. This will help lots of people survive thought natural disasters.
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Atlanta has started using Ushashidi to help preapare people for natural diasters and crisises
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Comment by Ellie Addington on November 29, 2012 at 11:09pm
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Atlanta is now using Ushahidi wich helps warn people about natural disasters. This can save their lives.
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Atlanta uses Ushahidi to help prepare for disasters.
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Comment by Hannah Rose Fountain on November 27, 2012 at 1:09am
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Cities neighboring my city of Sandy Springs and the city of Atlanta are utilizing Ushahidi to prevent last minute response to natural disasters so that people can evacuate and lives are saved.
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Comment by Zeba Huque on November 27, 2012 at 12:26am
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A known program called Ushashidi is helping Atlanta get the citizens to rely on them for upcoming events and to know if a harmful disaster will occur.
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Comment by Kennedy Suttle on November 27, 2012 at 12:10am
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Atlanta started using Ushashidi which helps people know about upcoming disasters. They will be notified about severe natual disasters and dangerous events.
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Comment by Caroline Thomson on November 26, 2012 at 10:55pm
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Atlanta has started using Ushashidi. This helps to notify people when natural disasters are heading our way or other disastrous events.
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The Atlanta area has recently begun using Ushashidi, which helps to warn people of severe natural disasters and other events.
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one of atlantas resilience is to satisfy work.
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Comment by Grant Reeder on November 26, 2012 at 9:12pm
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I found that Atlanta and neighboring cities are begining to adapt to Ushashidi from the news and my dad. He says he checks the weather on it every day to find if his work clients will be able to reach him. Also, the news is beggining to mention Ushashidi to track extreme weather and to warn targeted countries of violence and the weather.
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The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is responsible for gathering and distributing data to the first responders so that they know where to go and what sort of resources to gather and bring. My interviewees knew the basics of our system, such as the major red cross stations nearby, etc.
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Atlanta is starting to use Ushashidi. One of my neighbors said that he is checking it every day, and he said that the city government is already sponsoring the idea. The city is using Ushashidi to spread the word to the city about severe natural disasters or other events.
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