A couple of meaningful anniversaries deserve to be remembered, and learned from, this week. 19 April, 1995 – the bombing of the Oklahoma (USA) Federal Building 20 April, 2010 – the explosion and subsequent oil spill on the Deepwater Horizon I expect most of the coverage will focus on the first anniversary of the start […]
… Q1 is over
The first quarter of the year has gone already, and what a quarter it has been for large-scale disasters! Floods in Australia (Qld and Vic) and Brazil Cyclone in Queensland Snow Storm in NE USA Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand Tsunami in Japan, and all the subsequent trouble with radiation Earthquake in Greece In the […]
A good news story – corporate supports the community
Over recent weeks a large chunk of this country has been under water, the worst impacted areas are in Queensland. Here is a map showing the impacted area. One of the major economic impacts of this flooding has been on the coal mining industry. Estimates of the cost to the coal industry are up to […]
… a focus on community
In the previous post of this series I talked about the 3 words that I have chosen to provide my focus for 2011. This post expands on the ideas that ‘community’ is intended ot focus on. I want to make the blog more resilient There is only so long you can go writing notes to […]
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