Community Resilience   Resilient Action Item

The military paid for a study on sea level rise. The results were scary.

Washington Post. More than a thousand low-lying tropical islands risk becoming “uninhabitable” by the middle of the century — or possibly sooner — because of rising sea levels, upending the populations of some island nations and endangering key U.S. military assets.

Business Resilience   Resilient Action Item

The Rise of the Rural Creative Class.

CityLab. One of the most persistent myths in America today is that urban areas are innovative and rural areas are not. While it is overwhelmingly clear that innovation and creativity tend to cluster in a small number of cities and metropolitan areas, it’s a big mistake to think that they somehow skip over rural America.

Disaster Recovery Resilient Action Item

BP: rebuilding trust after a disaster.

Financial Times. It has been a tumultuous process that involved the sale of more than $60bn of assets to cover disaster liabilities, followed by a rebuilding process that has only recently begun to restore a sense of normality to the company. Back in June 2010, it was far from clear that BP, let alone Mr Svanberg, would still …