sustainableeastend.blogspot.com - by Francesca Rheannon - October 21, 2015
With its miles of low-lying coast land and population pressures, the East End of Long Island is vulnerable to disaster. It could come suddenly in the form of a storm like Hurricane Sandy. Or creep inexorably toward us on the encroaching tide of sea level rise or the degradation of our land and water resources. Or from some other completely unexpected direction, like a pandemic.
Yet we are also a community rich in people committed to the health and well-being of the region. We also have fisheries and farmland to sustain us.
Bringing our resources to bear on building community resilience is the goal of the East End Resilience Network.
We talk today with the organizer of that network, Michael McDonald. As Coordinator of the Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance and Chairman of Global Resilience Systems, Inc., McDonald has been involved in building resilience networks all over the world.
