Several months I embarked on an experiment to take one of my Facebook accounts and liberally accept “Friends” to see what would happen. As of this writing this particular account has just under 4,000 Friends and the laboratory has yielded somewhat disconcerting results. Many people place profiles that are not real and that many “women” […]

The Importance of Resilience Planning in Infrastructure Projects: The Trump Challenge Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo last year announced two massive long-term infrastructure projects at NYC’s two main airports: LaGuardia ($5 Billion) and JFK Airport ($10 billion). The elevations of the airports are 20.6 feet for LaGuardia and 13 feet for JFK. Sea Level […]

On April 1, 2017, Joaquin F. Matias and I self-published our first book: A Call to Action: How to Save Millions of Lives; the book is about relocating people out of flood and drought areas into sustainable & resilient communities (Plan Relocation or Plan R). We have decided to publish through Amazon’s www.createspace.com. This self […]

    I recently finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book David and Goliath that consists of a series of biographies about special people who exhibit enormous resilience and illustrates examples where smaller entities conquer bigger entities. There is a general trend appearing where monolithic institutions are on the run and it is up to succeeding Generations […]