Way back when, I had written about how some sustainability people were wondering if this new-fangled "Disaster Resilience" was going to interface with sustainability. The city of Seattle is about to find out!
There are now three Pacific Northwest cities participating in the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities program: Seattle; Vancouver, British Columbia; Calgary, Alberta.
This summer the Center for Regional Disaster Resilience (CRDR) is hosting a two-day Disaster Resilience Symposium Check it out. This is an event you might want to attend. I'm hoping that we'll have all three of the above cities on the kickoff panel titled Defining Disaster Resilience.