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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes — And Why by Amanda Ripley goes on sale today.
I have had a chance to read the book, and I can recommend it wholeheartedly not only to any readers of this blog — who tend think about disasters more than most folks — but also to anyone who ever thinks about what they would do if [...]

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I recommend anyone interested in the role of the public in homeland security should read “Civic Security”  an article in the Winter 2008 edition of a terrific new policy magazine, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Dallek, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, cleverly offers a new take on homeland security by citing an old model –World War II’s Office of Civil Defense. He writes:
“In May 1941, President Franklin D. [...]

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The transcript of my Washingtonpost.com online discussion Monday on civilian preparedness can be found at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/05/16/DI2008051603186.html
Sorry for the lack of capitalization. It was my first online discussion, and I was trying to keep up with the questions.  
 

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I have a piece on citizen preparedness in today’s Washington Post “Outlook” section. It can be found through this link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603735.html
If you are arriving at the blog on for the first time as a result of the article, welcome. I hope you stick around.
I would love to hear any comments, criticisms, or questions about the story or anything regarding citizen emergency preparedness.
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Thank you for all the emergency preparedness questions called or emailed in during the fourth installment of the Brian Lehrer Show’s ‘Are You Ready’ series. Though I’m not sure I’m knowledgeable enough to be dubbed a preparedness guru, I hope the series was somewhat informative on an issue — public emergency preparedness – that doesn’t always get a [...]

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This morning was the fourth and final installment of the month-long Are You Ready series I have been doing on WNYC’s the “Brian Lehrer Show”. An audio file is at the Brian Lehrer Show website. It was really interesting and enjoyable for me to talk about citizen preparedness and in particular to get the comments and questions from [...]

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The third installment of the ‘Are You Ready’ series I am doing on the “The Brian Lehrer Show” is now available on the web. Just click thru to the show page and scroll down.
 
Above is a photo with my “Go-Bag” and ‘comfort items’ as we try to encourage submissions to our Flickr project. I am hoping we’ll get a lot of [...]

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