Empowering readiness in a rapidly changing world. 15 years coordinating crisis operations.
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Side by side comparison of treatment effects. The left image is an untreated stand with very high mortality and burn severity. On the right is a previously rx burned stand (5 years ago) on the same wildfire - the two stands burned on the same day about 200 m apart.
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Not to be a downer, but this smoke episode is only a taste of what's to come. Here's a chart from NASA Ames of projected average air quality.
Under the most likely climate scenario, our average air quality in the 2070s will be equivalent to the "red sky" summer of 2020!
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More than 30 million Americans have quit their job this year.
Most employers think the answer is to pay people more, but
That's only a small part of the equation.
If you don't want your people to quit, you need to read this:
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Storytelling has the power to change the world.
I've realised this time & again in the last 9 years of helping startups scale.
🧵 Framework to become a masterful storyteller:
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A senior U.S. defense official just released an updated assessment of the war in Ukraine as of early Sunday evening in Washington. Basic updates:
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I devoured 50 years of Warren Buffett shareholder letters.
The result?
12 timeless principles from the greatest investor in the world.
Here are the golden nuggets🧵
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@lululemon why isn’t @BrandieWilks a brand ambassador yet? (Do you have any volleyball ambassadors? Better yet any women of color /outspoken BLM volleyball ambassadors yet?) I personally commit to a lulu shopping spree once she’s signed! 🏐 👙 🙌🏼 💜
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Wow. Highly recommend taking 7 minutes away from watching Congress. The British news media perfectly captured today close-up. May all US media request to re-air this. It’s already packaged, impactful and brings clarity to the day. @ReliableSources
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Let me be very clear: the scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not represent who we are. What we are seeing is a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent, it's disorder. It borders on sedition, and it must end. Now.
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1/ Thoughts/reflections on the events of the last 24 hours with the vaccine rollout at Stanford... One of the most upsetting 24 hours I have ever experienced.
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An urban mayor who nearly DIED saving neighbor from a fire, has earned right 2 demand integrity & courage from other leaders. @corybooker
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1 in 4 students in America doesn’t graduate high school. Join me in this @Cause 2 end the dropout crisis: causes.com/graduate
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"A more inclusive @WorldBank will have the resources to advance its core mission of poverty reduction" - #JimKim ow.ly/9XyoY
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It's time to legalize #marijuana as part of the larger issue of reforming the prison-industrial complex that now dominates America.
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19 US Senators call on Village Voice Media & Backpage to end its role in sex trafficking: bit.ly/GKQfJl
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The American Red Cross and Dell Launch First-Of-Its-Kind Social Media Digital Operations Center for Humanitarian Relief redcross.org/portal/site/en/…
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From crowdsourcing to crowdfeeding, @ushahidi can help structure & verify social data, says @patrickmeier ht instagr.am/p/H4ZirwJyJ2/
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.@NDMVA @Whitehouse supports full funding for @nationalservice and will fight Republican proposal to eliminate #Americorps