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Resilience News
News@Northeastern: Supply Chains Are A Mess But There’s Hope On The Horizon
GRI Founding Director, Dr. Stephen Flynn, featured in a News@Northestern’s article for his thoughts on how to can make the current infrastructure & transportation system more flexible to be better prepared for when the next big disruption happens in the supply chain world. Dr. Flynn believes reviving historic transportation networks such as riverboats and railways would also ease the over-reliance on the ports.
Conversation Piece
Dr. Janice Barnes of approaching Climate Change with Optimism
By Kathleen Fleischauer, Global Development Coordinator, GRI
After 30 years of working to mitigate the effects of climate change, Dr. Janice Barnes, GRI’s Distinguished Corporate Fellow, approaches challenging the effects of climate change with an optimism that seems virtually nonexistent in the climate conversation. Kathleen Fleishauer had a conversation with Dr. Barnes to understand how maintaining this optimism is possible in a global conversation that is often shrouded in hopeless negativity.
Event Recap & Recording
Cyber Security & Resilience Issues of the Grid
By Kathleen Fleischauer, Global Development Coordinator, GRI
Suedeen Kelly and Richard Mroz from Protect Our Power brought attention to a number of issues on protecting the electric grid as well as why federal / state coordination, is pertinent as we transition to a smarter highly digitized grid. You can view the event recording below.
Resilience News
Stephen Flynn Features on NPR’s “Planet Money” Podcast – Of boats and boxes
GRI Founding Director, Stephen Flynn was invited by NPR to partake in one of their Planet Money podcast episodes that talked about the current impediments that broke global supply chain, and how its leading to ships being congested at ports with a backlogged of goods that are yet to be offloaded. With his extensive experience with Maritime Transportation and Port Security, Stephen Flynn and co-hosts of NPR’s Planet Money podcast, take us on a trip to three ports around the U.S. You can listen to the episode of this podcast below.
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Event Recap
Funding, Financing and Delivery of Resilience Infrastructure
By Kathleen Fleischauer, Global Development Coordinator, GRI
The presentation began with an introduction by GRI Founding Director, Stephen Flynn, who emphasized the timeliness of the topic, considering the recent infrastructure legislation in the United States and the increased political and economic focus on renewing infrastructure across communities. Ms. Jill Jamieson, started off by recognizing that “resilience” means different things to different people, but emphasized that her discussion would focus on climate.
