DeAngelis has written well of resilience lately. In this piece, he articulates his basic understanding of civil defense for this world we are in:
The goal is to create a system that blends five areas: 1) Best Practices Methodology; 2) Resilient Technology Architecture; 3) Automated Rule Sets; 4) People Processes; and, 5) Integrated Political Leadership.
Under the first methodology he suggests:
• Identify Critical Assets and their enabling business processes and core functions
for competitiveness and sustainability for regional ecosystems
• Identify security, compliance and competitive rules (metrics and measurements)
One critical asset that is important to all human life is soil. Crafting food culture and systems that sustain life in and of our soils, and as well, foster deep understanding of life/death/life cycles is imperative. We are working now to enable businesses from retailers to restaurants to households, from institutions to farmers and ranchers, middlemen that can step up to the standards of understanding the soil food web without falling into ideological skreeds and polarizing screeches about whose ways are better.
With techniques such as direct microscopy and brix, metrics and measurements are in place. We can now let the soil organisms and plants, from trees, to veggies to grasses, speak for themselves. If a way is destructive of the life that plants and animals need to live, grow well and feed us, that is an unacceptable practice. Decisions are made by all of us on our daily rounds: we can consider what our moves do to the qualities of life we need for our grandchildren to be able to eat, breathe, dance, laugh, cry, love and continue as well as we have. We can awaken to this world which truly holds us in our whirling and busy daze, building this aspect of our lives from the ground up from whatever place holds us.
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