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Отказ От Цивилизация
И американская, и русская культуры имеют историю противопоставления ядра фронтиру. Мы расширяем сферу нашей промышленной мощи, добывающих предприятий и войны/дипломатии/колонизации/заселения внутренних районов. Тем не менее, те из нас, кто находится в «ядре» «цивилизованной» группы, чувствуют…
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Turning Away From Civilization
Both American and Russian cultures have a history of contrasting the core with the frontier. We expand the sphere of our industrial might, extractive enterprises, and war / diplomacy / colonization / settlement of the…
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3 Wikipedia Pages
I edited 3 wikipedia pages for nearby Sacramento landmarks that were lacking pictures. Using my Mavic Pro, seeking LAANC authorization for each operation (operating in ICAO:SAC class C airspace), I took pictures to add to…
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Old Lands
I spent last night camped by a river. Friends and other campers at the site, we clustered on tables filled with drinks on a warm perfect spring day, which as night fell – we illuminated…
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Geospatial Mapping page added
See our new Geospatial Mapping page for examples of work in drone mapping by LiveResilient. We can use drones like the ones on that page, along with public GIS datasets or field/office research, to provide…
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Replaying the Cosmic Tapestry
Henry Kissinger died recently. Someone posted this excerpt from his thesis. When we are young, we encounter great vistas of possibility and wonder. As time goes on, our role inside of these vistas, if we…
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Writing for Cyberpunk
Here are some tropes I would use for a cyberpunk story. Feel free to add to this list of tropes that you would use in a sci-fi cyberpunk story, possibly set in your city.
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Survival and Preparedness without being a paranoid dummy
Hey, this will be one of my first impromptu and regular posts on this site. I came up with LiveResilient as a concept pretty soon after college with the notion that I would write the…
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Map Your City
Kill Your Fear – Map Your City Shootings. Assaults. Property crimes, homeless camps, police brutality. Corrupt politicians, negligent media, rent spikes, and urban decay. The position of the modern metropolitan American can be a precarious…
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Concept – Ecological Investment + Engagement App
Here’s the very basic outline of what GIS (Geographic Information Systems) could do for Oak Park, in the context of a city-wide program. The program is broadly divided into 3 levels – city, district / neighborhood, and project. Program Description…
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Household Preparedness Coaching
We can take a look and examine your personal situation and offer some ways to become more secured against unexpected events. Resilient Products Resilient Home Services
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Urban Design Service Offerings
Here are some bullet points on the characteristics of urban resilience that we can model – characteristics that we can also create projects to address. TOOLS:
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Solar for C&I (Commercial & Industrial) Use
Renewable energy such as solar and wind, plus battery energy storage, can offer owners and tenants price stability and power supply security – with the potential to offer large savings on energy bills. Solar PV…
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Mobile Respiratory Protection for Wildfire Season
Summer is here, and in California, that means we can expect the imminent arrival of massive wildfires. Three of the last four years (2018, 2020, 2021) have seen large wildfire events that blanketed the North…
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3 Nutritional Habits for Working from Home
Millions of people are working from home for the first time this week. I have been working from home almost exclusively for more than 4 years now, and will explain in this article how I…
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Preparedness for Environmentalists
(Originally written for a Fall 2019 event of the Network of Professionals in Water and the Environment) Nowadays, especially as Californians, people are aware that disruption, shortages, or even catastrophe can come to their front…
