Meirun Li's Blog – June 2012 Archive (6)

I think the season 2 of the EVOKE network should trackle the same problems of season 1 and more interesting topics like the local environment, human rights, rising poverty and bad work conditions. Then we schould motivate the participants to more action. Because only collecting solutions does not move much. Furthermore in my opinion the next EVOKE should especially try to reach the countries and areas in which those problems often occur.Because they are the people who really know about the…

I chose the secret "How do people react in a Pandemic" because I think that it contains very important informations for everyone to survive a disaster. Particularly the piece of Peter Sandman, Risk Communication Consultant, is in my opinion quite surprising and useful.

There are several ways of human reactions during a disaster. When people overreact, they pause what they're doing, become hyper-vigilant, check out the environment more carefully than they normally would. The most…

Wenn I am at the age of 100 I would like to share my personal experiences to my grandkids. It is always valuable to get to know other people, other countries and different cultures. I will teach them to always be honest and respectful to people and also to tell them to stay healthy and enjoy the life. Furthermore I would like to tell them many traditional cultures of the world.…

Senators of the Enviroment: An Intergenerational Project on Education and Environmental Awareness

The community management success story from the CBNRM I choose to investigate explored how the elderly and young schoolchildren can be influenced to take environmental action while working together. One of the goals of this project was to revitalize natural resources such as streams, the coastal area and the salt marshes and the possibly develop these resources for…

I interviewed many friends of mine by asking them what they know about city resilience and especially in Brunswick. Most of them mentioned the still existing bunker built during the WW2. They should protect the citizens while bombing attacks. When I asked whether they know about more examples of city resilience in Brunswick, no one had an answer. I informed my friends about the facts I finded out.

I think the main reason of this is the missing action according city resilience since…

On the UN womenwatch I found the new story "American girls raise awareness and money to fight child marriage in four countries", including an very informative interview with Gina Reiss-Wilchins, Director of the Girl Up campaign.

Every day, girls as young as five years old are robbed of their childhood because they cease being girls and become brides.

However, thousands of American girls between the ages of 13 and 18 who are outraged after learning about child marriage are…